RECYCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recycle mean? 

• RECYCLE (verb)
  The verb RECYCLE has 2 senses:

1. cause to repeat a cycle

2. use again after processing

  Familiarity information: RECYCLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECYCLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they recycle    ... he / she / it recycles   
Past simple: recycled   
Past participle: recycled   
-ing form: recycling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to repeat a cycle

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "recycle" is one way to...):

cycle (cause to go through a recurring sequence)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Use again after processing

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

recycle; reprocess; reuse

Context example:

We must recycle the cardboard boxes

Hypernyms (to "recycle" is one way to...):

apply; employ; use; utilise; utilize (put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recycle"):

rehash (present or use over, with no or few changes)

reclaim; recover (reuse (materials from waste products))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

recycling (the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products)

 Context examples 

That makes their nutrients, carbon and organic matter unavailable for surface recycling by other algae that need the sunlight available in the upper ocean.

(Algae-killing viruses spur nutrient recycling in oceans, National Science Foundation)

It is characterized by reduced or absent activity of the enzyme biotinidase which is responsible for the recycling of the vitamin biotin.

(Biotinidase Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

EGFR-HER2 complex increases the signaling capacity of EGFR by increasing the ligand affinity as well as the recycling of the heterodimer.

(ERBB2 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

For EIF2 to perform additional rounds of initiation, it must be recycled by GDP/GTP exchange.

(eIF2B, NCI Thesaurus)

PKC phosphorylated receptors are sorted for recycling to the cell surface, and directed away from the late endosome and proteasome.

(EGF Receptor Downregulation by CBL Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

They also help to recycle matter, and contribute up to 70% of the dust between stars.

(Ageing Star Blows Off Smoky Bubble, ESO)

These receptors accumulate in endocytic vesicles and are either targeted for degradation or slowly recycled to the membrane via as yet poorly defined routes.

(GPCR Desensitization Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Proteasome inhibitors block cells’ normal protein recycling processes.

(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)

This protein is involved in the recycling of adenine and AMP.

(Adenine Phosphoribosyltransferase, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes amphiphysin protein, is involved in both clathrin-mediated synaptic vesicle recycling and clathrin-mediated endocytosis in nerve terminals.

(AMPH wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)