Recycle

/ˌɹiːˈsaɪkəl/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To break down and reuse component materials..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To break down and reuse component materials.
2. (transitive, figurative) To reuse as a whole.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
4. (intransitive, ergative) To be recycled.
5. (US) To discard into a recycling bin.
6. (US, military, transitive) To put (a person) through a course of training again.
7. (roller derby) To skate toward the rear of the engagement zone to maximize the time that an opposing jammer must spend before returning to the action.
8. An act of recycling.

Example Sentences

Both paper and plastic can be recycled.

Recycling and reusing the material eliminates the need to import aggregate, a strategy which has avoided over 50,000 lorry movements on local roads.

Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.

He [Huw Jones] was hauled down in England’s 22 but, when the ball was quickly recycled, [Finn] Russell’s miss-pass gave Sean Maitland the room to score in the left corner.

Now populists recycle communist verities: the fetishisation of working-class culture, the vision of a good “people” fighting a bad elite, the belief that the state should control business and the dismissal of parliamentary democracy as a bourgeois sham.

Most cans, bottles, and jars need to be rinsed, so recycle while you are doing dishes.

Recycling is no longer a chore when this convenient recycling center is a fixture in your kitchen.

You'll find many configurations, including models that hide behind a single cabinet door and conceal from one to three bins, so you can recycle at the same spot where you dispose of trash.

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• recycles
• recycling
• recycled

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