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▪ I. recycle, v.|riːˈsaɪk(ə)l|
Also re-cycle.
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans.
a. To reuse (a material) in an industrial process; to return to a previous stage of a cyclic process.
1926[implied in recycling vbl. n.]. 1928Jrnl. Inst. Petroleum Technologists XIV. 766 It is economically more advantageous to stop cracking in the first cycle when coke formation begins and produce more gasoline by re-cycling those fractions which do not form great quantities of coke during cracking. 1929Proc. R. Soc. A. CXXIV. 43 It ought to be possible to obtain nearly the theoretically possible yield by returning to the reaction chamber or ‘recycling’ all the products formed except the gasoline. 1945H. D. Smyth Gen. Acct. Devel. Atomic Energy Mil. Purposes ix. 100 Any given sample of material is recycled many times. 1958Times 17 Oct. 5/1 It is envisaged that plutonium produced in the working of the reactor will later be recycled through it. 1964N. G. Clark Mod. Org. Chem. iv. 62 Using only a small volume of solvent, which is continually re⁓cycled, it is possible to carry out the equivalent of many hundreds of separate extractions. 1972Sci. Amer. Oct. 69/1 Their new process is the first closed-loop, spray-etching system that electrolytically reverses the chemical reaction of etching. It continuously recycles cupric chloride and has reduced the cost of etching wiring boards by over 90%. 1980Times 7 Mar. 25/3 The uranium is recycled back to an enrichment plant to make new thermal-reactor fuel, and the plutonium is stored.
b. spec. To reuse (a waste material), to convert (waste) into or into a usable form; also, to reclaim (a material) from waste.
1960Aeroplane XCIX. 521/2 It has systems which reduce all organic waste to a small amount of ash and recycle urine and waste water into drinkable water. 1967Technology Week 23 Jan. 34/3 It would allow us to economically desalt sea and brackish water, recycle water from sewage. 1971Sci. Amer. May 95/1 (Advt.), You bring us the cans and we'll recycle them. 1971New Yorker 16 Oct. 33 What you ecology-minded ladies don't realize is that before a bottle can be recycled it has to be emptied. 1973Guardian 22 Mar. 15/1 The Liberals of Kew..have been recycling paper, and have managed to scrape a regular {pstlg}25 a month. 1974Listener 28 Feb. 278/1 Such a plant would recycle steel, aluminium, zinc, lead and copper from scrap. 1979China Now Mar./Apr. 31/3 The report covers all methods of recycling organic materials.
c. transf. in connection with natural processes. Usu. in pass.
1965G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. i. 2/2 These [beds of sediment] are of considerable interest to economic geologists for through them much detrital gold was recycled within and beyond the primary gold-bearing areas. 1970Nature 17 Oct. 273/2 The annual discharge of dissolved sodium in rivers is about 20 × 107 tons, of which 9 × 107 tons have been recycled from the sea through the atmosphere. 1971I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth iii. 68/2 Much of the ocean will be recycled in the ocean-floor spreading process. 1973Sci. Amer. Apr. 61/1 Stars continually recycle their material through the interstellar medium.
d. fig.
1969Guardian 12 May 1/5 (heading) Bankers find way to recycle hot money. 1970Nature 25 July 321/2 It is not possible to recycle the output of the secondary schools without there being some intermediate opportunity for broadening the intellectual experience of the young men and women concerned. 1973Ibid. 2 Mar. 4/2 A further five [cases] may be the result of the virus being recycled in swill. 1973Black Panther 4 Aug. 7/3 Those workers finding themselves without jobs..are re-cycled back to their former jobs at the reduced wages. 1974Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 16 Mar. 2/2 The kids are appropriating the Fifties, proving once more that fads (like garbage) can be recycled. 1974Newsweek 7 Oct. 52/1 A new international banking system to recycle OPEC funds into loans to the poorer nations. 1978Washington Post 8 Aug. c4/5 Many juveniles, he adds, are repeat offenders, ‘recycled’ through the system.
2. a. trans. To repeat (a process) on a computer or counting device; also absol. b. intr. Of a computer: to repeat a procedure.
1962A. Shepard in Into Orbit 103 Walt decided to re⁓cycle the count—or set it back—to allow for this delay. 1973Sci. Amer. May 110/3 The three input terminals of a nand gate connected to Qe, Qd and Qa of a series of five flip⁓flops would cause the apparatus to recycle on the count of 25 (11001).
1970A. Cameron et al. Computer & O.E. Concordances 47, I made a preliminary run and found a large number of keypunch errors that I had missed originally... I decided therefore to recycle.
3. intr. To undergo recycling.
1970Nature 28 Nov. 856/2 The inability of most newly formed lymphocytes to recycle from blood to lymph could explain their truncated life span. 1975Ibid. 24 July 247/1 The PhD degree is a relatively easy target to attack because its recipients do not seem to confer on society the same sort of benefits as, say, medical doctors. More recycle into the educational system than go elsewhere. 1978Amat. Photographer 29 Nov. 128/3, I had noticed the unit appeared to be taking longer than usual to recycle after each shot, but assumed the battery was getting low.
Hence reˈcycled ppl. a.; reˈcycling vbl. n.; recycling time (Photogr.), the time required to recharge the capacitor of a flash unit.
1926Petroleum Devel. & Technol. 1925 338 With the use of higher pressures and temperatures permitting the ultimate cracking of this cut, more recycling of this fraction may be practiced. 1958Amat. Photographer 31 Dec. 2/2 (Advt.), Angle 60°, recycling time 6 sec. 1964M. Gowing Britain & Atomic Energy 1939–1945 ix. 258 There were heavy losses of the product and of time in recycling and in washing and cleaning the machines. 1969Focal Encycl. Photogr. (rev. ed.) 636/2 The recycling time and the number of flashes obtainable from a set of batteries..are also the subject of specific measurement methods. 1970C. S. Russell et al. Drought & Water Supply viii. 68 Only 46 percent..indicated a willingness to drink recycled domestic water. 1970Daily Tel. 12 Sept. 5/7 They lived off their recycled body wastes. 1971Ibid. 29 Apr. 14/6 The more than 9·1 million aluminium cans represent about 460,000 lb of litter and solid waste removed for complete recycling. 1972Guardian 6 June 15/4 Recycling enthusiasts are..collecting..old bottles and tin cans. 1975Nature 17 Jan. 149/2 There is little commercial future for recycled glass in high grade uses at present. 1975N.Y. Times 25 Oct. 27/3 The recycling boom is waning because of unfavorable economic conditions. 1977Financial Times 4 June 5/3 Retreading is a form of recycling, which should be encouraged. 1978D. Bloodworth Crosstalk xxiii. 180 He had driven the Deputy Director..half mad with his hesitation, his recycled arguments for accepting and not accepting.
▪ II. recycle, n.|riːˈsaɪk(ə)l|
Also re-cycle.
[f. the vb.]
The operation or process of recycling a material, etc.; also, the material itself. orig. and freq. attrib., usu. denoting material subjected to or set aside for recycling.
1926Petroleum Devel. & Technol. 1925 339 The gas oil was returned to the cracking system as recycle charging stock. 1936W. L. Nelson Petroleum Refinery Engin. iii. 19 Recycle stock has about the same boiling-range and..physical characteristics as gas oil. 1939World Petroleum Mar. 104/3 The asphalt bottoms produced are released through exchangers against reduced crude. They are blended with the cracked recycle gas oil and thence through the tar coolers to tankage. 1946Nature 30 Nov. 800/1 The gradual deterioration in the quality of re-cycle benzene is due to the preferential accumulation of paraffins. 1961Engineering 2 June 781/1 Reduce the cost of fuel burned by using plutonium recycle or spikes of fully enriched uranium. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. XIII. 185/2 The rich solution from the absorption step must be stripped in order to permit recovery of the absorbed solute and recycle of the solvent. 1975Nature 13 Feb. 496/3 Recycle, or reuse of materials, is an important aspect of the proper management of these resources. Ibid. 2 Oct. 369/1 There is a great variety of possible schemes for incorporating a converter, or heat engine, into the heat recycle. |