English words starting with cy - page 1

Meanings of Cybercafe:

noun

A small business where you can pay to use the internet and which may also serve food and drinks

Usage examples:

The two-year strategy includes the launch of new websites and cybercafés, as well as partnerships w…

Meanings of Cybercultural:

adjective

Of or relating to social changes brought about by widespread automation and computerization; (in later use also) of or relating to the culture surrounding and involving computers and (especially) the internet.

Meanings of Cyberculture:

noun

The social conditions brought about by the widespread use of computer networks for communication, entertainment, and business.

Usage examples:

Our lives are influenced by cyberculture

Meanings of Cybernate:

verb

To control (especially an industrial process) by machines or computers; to automate. also without object: (of an organization) to introduce cybernation or automation.

Meanings of Cybernated:

verb

To control (especially an industrial process) by machines or computers; to automate. also without object: (of an organization) to introduce cybernation or automation.

Meanings of Cybernating:

verb

To control (especially an industrial process) by machines or computers; to automate. also without object: (of an organization) to introduce cybernation or automation.

Meanings of Cybernation:

noun

Control (especially of an industrial process) by machines or computers; automation.

Meanings of Cybernetic:

adjective

Relating to or using cybernetics (= the study of how information is communicated in machines and electronic devices, compared with how information is communicated in the brain and nervous system)

Usage examples:

In the story, he is given a replacement cybernetic hand., a cybernetic system enables his thought i…

Meanings of Cybernetically:

adverb

With respect to cybernetics; by means of cybernetic technology.

Meanings of Cybernetics:

plural noun

The science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things.

Usage examples:

An important part in science comes to be taken by such fields of it as the study of systems, mathem…

noun

The scientific study of how information is communicated in machines and pieces of electronic equipment in comparison with how information is communicated in the brain and nervous system

Usage examples:

The paper deals with the ways in which cybernetics can be made use of in industry, particularly whe…

Meanings of Cyberslacker:

noun

Spending time using the internet at work for reasons that are not related to your job

Usage examples:

Although prosecutions and disciplinary cases may be rare , the new breed of cyberslacker is an expe…

Meanings of Cyberterrorist:

noun

Someone who takes part in cyberterrorism

Usage examples:

Unidentified cyberterrorists gained access to emails and financial details of customers.

Meanings of Cyborg:

noun

A fictional or hypothetical person whose physical abilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by mechanical elements built into the body.

Usage examples:

Its 2032 and the few human beings remaining on earth co-exist with cyborgs, human spirits inhabitin…

Meanings of Cycad:

noun

A palmlike plant of tropical and subtropical regions, bearing large male or female cones. cycads were abundant during the triassic and jurassic eras, but have since been in decline.

Usage examples:

Modern cycads are tropical plants whose ancestors can be traced in the fossil record for about 300 …

Meanings of Cycads:

noun

A palmlike plant of tropical and subtropical regions, bearing large male or female cones. cycads were abundant during the triassic and jurassic eras, but have since been in decline.

Usage examples:

Modern cycads are tropical plants whose ancestors can be traced in the fossil record for about 300 …

Meanings of Cyclades:

proper noun

A large group of islands in the southern aegean sea, regarded in antiquity as circling around the sacred island of delos. the cyclades form a department of modern greece.

Meanings of Cycladic:

adjective

Relating to the cyclades in greece.

Usage examples:

The waterfront with its white cycladic houses is very grand and the splendid harbour looks out at t…

noun

The period of a bronze age civilization that flourished in the cyclades between c. 3000 and c. 1050 bc.

Usage examples:

The country's jewellery roots reach back millennia to the cycladic

Meanings of Cyclamate:

noun

A salt of a synthetic acid which is a cyclohexyl derivative of sulphamic acid. sodium and calcium cyclamates were formerly used as artificial sweeteners.

Usage examples:

Intense sweeteners permitted for use in australian and new zealand foods are acesulphame potassium,…

Meanings of Cyclamates:

noun

A salt of a synthetic acid which is a cyclohexyl derivative of sulphamic acid. sodium and calcium cyclamates were formerly used as artificial sweeteners.

Usage examples:

Intense sweeteners permitted for use in australian and new zealand foods are acesulphame potassium,…

Meanings of Cyclamen:

noun

A european plant of the primrose family, having pink, red, or white flowers with backward-curving petals and grown as a winter-flowering pot plant.

Usage examples:

Some of my favorite windowsill plants include many varieties of trailing ivy, african violets, prim…

Meanings of Cyclamens:

noun

A european plant of the primrose family, having pink, red, or white flowers with backward-curving petals and grown as a winter-flowering pot plant.

Usage examples:

Some of my favorite windowsill plants include many varieties of trailing ivy, african violets, prim…

Meanings of Cyclase:

noun

A salt or ester of adenylic acid.

Usage examples:

Although this general reduction of adenylates concentration might suggest an impaired respiratory p…

Meanings of Cycle:

noun

A series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order.

Usage examples:

The recurrent cycle of harvest failure, food shortages, and price increases

verb

Ride a bicycle.

Usage examples:

She cycled to work every day

Meanings of Cyclecar:

noun

Any of various cars or trolleys propelled or towed by pedal power along a railway track (rare).

Meanings of Cyclecars:

noun

Any of various cars or trolleys propelled or towed by pedal power along a railway track (rare).