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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recycle
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a recycling bin (=for rubbish that you can recycle)
▪ Those plastic cartons can go in the recycling bin.
recycle waste
▪ How much of our household waste is recycled?
recycled paper (=paper made from waste paper)
▪ The envelopes are made from 1OO percent recycled paper.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
material
▪ Even drawing up proposals for recycling waste materials in Britain requires ten sub-committees.
▪ Even so, the need to recycle water and other materials is obvious.
▪ That is true even if incineration produces energy that can be sold, or if recycling recovers sellable materials.
▪ Often substantial energy savings are achieved by recycling waste materials.
▪ Safrane benefits from the marking of most of its plastic parts for recycling with materials specially chosen for their suitability.
▪ They keep their production costs low and help the environment by recycling waste material such as newspapers and household plastic bottles.
▪ Soil bacteria and fungi live by digesting and recycling dead plant material such as leaves and seed cases.
paper
▪ Demand for by-products from waste paper and cardboard recycling is exceeding supply in the West Country.
▪ The paper includes recommendations on recycling, noise levels, aerosol use and smoking at work.
percent
▪ By the year 2000, local authorities must recycle 25 percent of what we throw away.
▪ But the government has set a target of recycling twenty-five percent of household waste by the end of the century.
waste
▪ The department is now advising other customers on how to recycle their waste.
▪ Ben Ord said the cost of attending the conference on recycling was a waste of money.
▪ So households have no incentive to minimise or recycle the waste they create.
▪ Nature has the capacity to recycle wastes and reconstitute them into new resources of concentrated material quality.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ New techniques for recycling plastics are being introduced.
▪ Plastic bottles can be recycled into clothing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A new state law says they have to figure out a way to recycle it.
▪ It then bought the trash recycling plant from its private owner.
▪ The same can not be said for the San Marcos recycling plant, which could be considered more of a liability.
▪ Throughout their monthlong stay, they relied or mechanical and chemical processes to recycle their air and water.
▪ We welcome the emphasis on recycling coastal land for appropriate coastal uses.
▪ We will improve recycling and waste-disposal systems.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recycle

1922, originally of industrial processes; see re- + cycle (v.). Specifically of waste material from 1960. Related: Recycled; recycling.

Wiktionary
recycle

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To break down and reuse component materials. 2 (context transitive English) To reuse as a whole. 3 (context transitive English) To collect or place in a bin for recycling. 4 (context intransitive ergative English) To be recycled.

WordNet
recycle
  1. v. cause to repeat a cycle

  2. use again after processing; "We must recycle the cardboard boxes" [syn: reprocess, reuse]

Wikipedia
ReCycle (software)

ReCycle is a music loop editor designed and developed by Swedish software developers Propellerhead Software. It runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh based PCs. The software debuted in 1994.

The principal idea of ReCycle is to alter the tempo of a music loop without changing its pitch or otherwise altering its sound. ReCycle does this by "slicing" loops into a series of separate "beats" or "hits" and altering their timing (or even quantizing them) without altering the length of the individual slices, thus allowing the loop to play at a different speed whilst using the unmodified sounds for each individual slice/drum hit, a process which fully preserves the original pitch of the loop while allowing a great variety of speed/timing tweaks. ReCycle can also assign each successive slice to a respective MIDI note on a scale. ReCycle was the first program to popularize the idea of loop slicing.

Propellerhead developed their own file format for this software: REX, and later REX2 (.RX2) adding support for stereo files, which has become a standard for music loops and is compatible with many third party programs, including Logic Pro, MOTU Digital Performer, and Steinberg Cubase. Propellerhead's Reason has its own specialised REX2 playing device called the Dr. Octorex Loop Player. In versions prior to Reason 5.0, it was supported in the Dr.REX Loop Player. This device can play slices when requested or simply play the entire loop in sequence.

ReCycle was originally developed in conjunction with Steinberg, although version 2 was solely a Propellerhead release.

An update to ReCycle, version 2.2, was released in October 2011. It adds 64-bit support as well as no longer requiring Rosetta on OS X (as it was removed in OS X 10.7). It also removed support for older file formats such as Sound Designer II, Mixman, SampleCell and Akai (.aka) files.

Usage examples of "recycle".

As a backup to the recycling systems, each arcology would tow along an asteroid several hundred meters across, to be mined as needed.

Aside from Morelli, the only piece of cop equipment in the Fairlane was a recycled two-way radio.

There were purposely no means of communication once inside, and Pastour sometimes spent many hours roaming the aisles of hydroponic pans, where all he had to listen to was the soft hum of the recycling pumps and the buzz of the sunlamps.

Ultimately, almost all of the carbon fixed by phytoplankton photosynthesis is recycled back to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

And a lot of ten-year-old porno started being recycled as, in effect, Bullshit Cockout, suggesting that that was what porno was, all along: Bullshit Cockout.

Steam carouseled ceilingward, sucked out through recycling vents to be recondensed and reused.

Greek and Latin scribes were known to recycle parchment whenever they ran short, erasing one text by soaking the leaves in milk and then scrubbing at the ink with a pumice-stone before reinscribing the surface, now blank, with a new one, so that one text lay dormant and hidden between the lines of another.

Everything seemed to be patched together, made from disparate parts and pieces, recycled, reinvented, repurposed, reused.

In a way, the Mighty Ten were really the Mighty Eleven, with the oldest warship being broken, resmelted, and recycled to provide the materials for the warship under construction.

True to the Alaskan spirit of recycling, people quickly answered the ad I tacked up on the bulletin board at the store.

Brenda Strait at Woeful Recycling in Arapahoe County, and this is The Strait Edge.

He wanted to see the biosynthetic batteries that recycled our water and restored our air and produced the most of our food.

And a good designer would find a way to recycle the cabinetry that was already here.

It was pushed through the hidden gate in the wall and into the thick screen of forest that separated the compound from the fields and the stench-ridden composting area, where bodies were recycled into fertilizer.

As a matter of faith, liberals believe: Darwinism is a fact, people are born gay, child-molesters can be rehabilitated, recycling is a virtue, and chastity is not.