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Definition: Recycle |
RecycleVerb1. Cause to repeat a cycle. 2. Use again after processing; "We must recycle the cardboard boxes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "recycle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
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Aerospace | 1. In a countdown to stop the count and to return to an earlier point in the countdown, as in we have recycled, now at T minus 80 and counting. Compare hold.2. To give a completely new checkout to a rocket or other object. (references) |
Census | A process a questionnaire undergoes when it fails an edit. The record is examined by a clerical process and corrected, if possible, or sent to a telephone followup operation. The questionnaire is captured again and edits are run on this new capture. This process continues until the record passes. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Recycling is the re-use of materials that would otherwise be considered waste. Those materials can be sources from pre-consumer waste (materials used in manufacturing) or post-consumer waste (materials discarded by the consumer).
Articles about, or including aspects of, recyling:
- Autonomous building
- Resin identification code
- Ship-Submarine recycling program
See also:
- Waste management
- Environment
- Environmentalism
- Economics
- Greenpeace
- Thermal depolymerization
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Recycling."
Synonyms: RecycleSynonyms: reprocess (v), reuse (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Recycle |
| English words defined with "recycle": reprocess, reuse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "recycle": added fat ♦ Biogeochemical Cycle ♦ MONOMER-PURIFICATION OPERATOR ♦ ROOFING-MACHINE TENDER ♦ Zinc Chloride Catalysts process. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Recycle Rex (1992) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | In 1680, physicist Giovanni Borelli attempts to recycle his own breathing air. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Prairie burn to stimulate new growth and recycle nutrients. Konza Biological Research Station, Manhattan, KS. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | A homeowner sifts soil made from his compost bin in background. Composting is an excellent way to recycle household and yard wastes. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Land Managers set a prairie burn with drip torches to stimulate new growth and recycle nutrients. Konza Biological Research Station, Manhattan, KS. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Don't waste waste, recycle. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Recycle newspaper. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Recycle Boxes 2" by Lisa McDonald Commentary: "Bundles of cardboard boxes await recycling." | "Concrete Independence" by Shawn Sutherland Commentary: "This is a group of machines used to recycle concrete." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Most manufacturing companies directly treat, recover, and recycle their waste. (references) | |
All science parks are beginning to require that factories recycle 70-80% of their wastewater. (references) | ||
First, car dismantling plants and installations that recycle cooling and break fluids will be authorized within the next two years. (references) | ||
Economic History | Malaysia | These consortia are required to collect, store, transport, treat, and recycle all of the country's non-hazardous waste. (references) |
El Salvador | Although there are several factories that recycle paper, almost all newsprint and nearly all paper used in schools and offices in El Salvador is imported. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Recycle" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Recycle" is used about 176 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 75% | 132 | 27,743 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 25% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Total | 100.00% | 176 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
recycle | 1,029 | battery recycle | 23 |
recycle bin | 818 | recycle tire | 22 |
recycle computer | 109 | recycle aluminum | 21 |
recycle ink cartridge | 76 | recycle water | 21 |
recycle symbol | 65 | empty recycle bin | 20 |
recycle bin icon | 62 | bin norton protected recycle | 18 |
logo recycle | 52 | oil recycle | 17 |
recycle cycle | 49 | toner recycle | 16 |
recycle plastic | 48 | recycle sign | 16 |
recycle center | 39 | recycle printer cartridge | 15 |
recycle paper | 34 | recycle inkjet cartridge | 15 |
recycle toner cartridge | 33 | restore recycle bin | 14 |
pc recycle | 33 | recycle cartridge | 14 |
reduce reuse recycle | 32 | bin cannot empty recycle | 14 |
recycle craft | 31 | clipart recycle | 12 |
recycle cell phone | 28 | city recycle | 12 |
recycle why | 26 | auto recycle | 12 |
recycle container | 24 | art clip recycle | 12 |
hp.com recycle | 24 | recover recycle bin | 12 |
recycle can | 23 | aluminum can recycle | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "recycle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ricikloj. (various references) | |
Arabic | عالج المياه, إعادة صنع الأشياء, أعاد تصنيع الأشياء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | преработвам (adapt, overwork, process, recast, rehandle, remodel, revamp, revise, work, work over, write over). (various references) | |
Chinese | 回收 (recycling). (various references) | |
Czech | recyklovat (reclaim), opìtnì využít. (various references) | |
Danish | enkelttrinstilbagefoering (rabbit, single-stage recycle), enkelttrinsrecykling (rabbit, single-stage recycle). (various references) | |
Dutch | eentrapsterugvoer (rabbit, single-stage recycle). (various references) | |
French | retraiter (reprocess), recycler (reclaim, retrain). (various references) | |
German | regenerieren (reclaim, recover, regenerate, reshape, revitalize, to recycle, to regenerate, to reshape), recyceln, wiederverwerten (reprocess), wiederaufbereiten (reprocess), umwälzen (change radically, circulate, revolutionize, to circulate, to recycle, to revolutionize, turn, turn around, turn over in smb.'s mind, turn round). (various references) | |
Greek | ανακυκλώνω. (various references) | |
Hebrew | למחזר (rotate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | visszakeringtet, újrafeldolgozás, újra hasznosít (to recycle). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mendaur-ulang, daur-ulang. (various references) | |
Italian | ricuperare (get back, make up for, reclaim, recoup, recover, recuperate, rehabilitate, retrieve, salvage), riciclare. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | リアルタイム処理 (liaison, Likud, liqueur, liquid, liquor, real politics, real price, real time processing, recall, recital, reclining seat, recommendation, reconstruction, recorder, recover, recovery, recovery shot, recreation, recruit, recruit fashion, recruiter, recurrent, recurrent neural network, recursion, recursive, recycle shop, recycling, re-engineering, regret, request, research, resize, rickettsia, Ricoh, rig, Rigel Kentaurus, rigorism, rigorist), 再循環 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リサイクル , さいじゅんかん. (various references) | |
Korean | 재생하십시요 (reprocess, reproduce). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecycleray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | reciclar. (various references) | |
Russian | рециркулировать, повторный цикл. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | preraditi (adapt, process, refine, rehash, revise, rewrite), ponovo iskoristiti. (various references) | |
Spanish | reciclar. (various references) | |
Swedish | återvinna (reclaim, recover, recovered, recuperate, regain). (various references) | |
Turkish | yeniden kullanıma sokmak, geri dönüşümünü sağlamak, değerlendirmek (appraise, appreciate, comment, commentate, evaluate, form an estimate of, interpret, judge, parlay, peruse, reclaim, recover, salvage, score, seize on, seize upon, size up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рециркулювати. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "recycle": recycled, recycler, recyclers, recycles. (additional references) | |
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"Recycle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eccle, encyclo, recbc, recicle, recile, recyle, Ruccolen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "recycle" (pronounced rēsī"kul) |
| 5 | -s ī" k u l | cycle. |
| 3 | -k u l | acoustical, aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, alphabetical, analytical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, article, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, barnacle, biblical, bicycle, bifocal, biochemical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, brickle, buckle, cackle, categorical, cervical, chemical, Chronicle, chronological, chuckle, circle, classical, clavicle, clerical, clinical, comical, commonsensical, conical, coracle, cortical, crackle, critical, cubicle, cuticle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, debacle, dermatological, diabolical, diacritical, dialectical, domical, ducal, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encircle, encyclical, epidemiological, epochal, equivocal, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, etymological, evangelical, fanatical, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geophysical, geopolitical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, graphical, gynecological, hackle, heckle, helical, heretical, heterocercal, hierarchical, historical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypercritical, hypocritical, hypothetical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, impractical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, spherical, sprinkle, statistical, stereotypical, stickle, strategical, suckle, surgical, symmetrical, tabernacle, tackle, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, tentacle, testicle, theatrical, theological, inimical, ironical, jackal, knuckle, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, local, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, matriarchal, mechanical, medical, meikle, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, meteorological, methodical, methodological, metrical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, morphological, motorcycle, muckle, musical, mystical, mythical, mythological, nautical, neoclassical, neurological, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, numerical, obstacle, ontological, optical, Oracle, oratorical, ornithological, paradoxical, particle, pathological, patriarchal, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, photochemical, physical, physiological, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, popsicle, practical, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, pumpernickel, puritanical, quizzical, rabbinical, radical, radiological, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, rhetorical, ruckle, runkle, sabbatical, satirical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, sociological, theoretical, tickle, tinkle, topical, toxicological, trickle, tricycle, tropical, twinkle, typical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncle, uncritical, uneconomical, unequivocal, unethical, unicycle, unshackle, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, vocal, whimsical, Winkle, wrinkle, zoological. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-l-r-y" | |
-1 letter: celery, cycler. | |
-2 letters: creel, cycle, leery, lycee, recce. | |
-3 letters: cere, eely, eery, eyer, eyre, leer, lyre, reel, rely. | |
-4 letters: cee, cel, cry, eel, ere, eye, lee, ley, lye, rec, ree, rye. | |
-5 letters: el, er, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-l-r-y" | |
+1 letter: recycled, recycler, recycles. | |
+2 letters: cycleries, pericycle, recyclers. | |
+3 letters: coercively, concretely, crescively, cyclometer, pericycles, recyclable. | |
+4 letters: chancellery, concertedly, cyclometers, cycloserine, electricity, heterocycle, myoelectric, recyclables. | |
+5 letters: correctively, cybernetical, cycloserines, electrically, electrolytic, excrescently, heterocycles, heterocyclic, pyroelectric, reticulocyte, sclerenchyma, tetracycline, uncoercively, unrecyclable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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