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cycler is a noun:
- Anything with a cyclic (repetitious) behaviour. Something that cycles between different states.
"The battery cycler allows us to switch between batteries as each one runs out." - An orbit that approaches two astronomical bodies on a regular basis.
"The Earth-Mars cyclers could potentially be used for transporting people between the two planets." - A, usually man-made, object that follows such an orbit.
"If we had more than one cycler then the length of time between the outbound and inbound journeys could be reduced to a few months." - a person with bipolar disorder, often used when comparing the speed of mood swings.
"My son's a fast cycler which is much harder for people to understand." - A device for performing dialysis; for mechanically purifying blood
"The only issue I have had with my cycler was when the cat started chewing on the connecting line." - a thermal cycler; a machine for creating multiple copies of DNA sequences.
"We took samples from the tubes in the cycler at regular intervals" - a task in a cycle of tasks where the status of being active task is passed around the loop.
"When the last cycler has run for 200ms we pass control back to the first one and begin again." - cyclist
"There is nothing more annoying than a rogue cycler ignoring the other road users."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is cycler?
- Noun usage: The battery cycler allows us to switch between batteries as each one runs out.
- Noun usage: The Earth-Mars cyclers could potentially be used for transporting people between the two planets.
- Noun usage: If we had more than one cycler then the length of time between the outbound and inbound journeys could be reduced to a few months.
- Noun usage: My son's a fast cycler which is much harder for people to understand.
- Noun usage: The only issue I have had with my cycler was when the cat started chewing on the connecting line.
- Noun usage: We took samples from the tubes in the cycler at regular intervals
- Noun usage: When the last cycler has run for 200ms we pass control back to the first one and begin again.
- Noun usage: There is nothing more annoying than a rogue cycler ignoring the other road users.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of cycler are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of cycler, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
