BICYCLE


Meaning of BICYCLE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a car/lorry/bicycle etc tyre

They sell and fit car tyres.

bicycle frame

a bicycle frame

bicycle shorts

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

new

Hire purchase was also available for new commodities such as bicycles .

I have this new house and a new bicycle .

And neither could the new red bicycle .

old

Taken on to sell insurance, patent medicines and beauty products, I sold my own animals and bought an old bicycle .

Even the poor old bicycle was dragged into the act, amidst a blizzard of respectable fears.

He came up with an old bicycle , half a pram and Henry's other leg.

■ NOUN

chain

Perhaps the most impressive beast of all, is the Current Trends Lion with a heavy duty bicycle chain for its mane.

A gang walking around in public brandishing bicycle chains could have been convicted.

motor

He usually arrived on a powerful motor bicycle a B.M.W., I am told.

A mowing machine coming within the definition of a motor bicycle is exempt.

Though what I did notice was a motor bicycle parked where it shouldn't have been - outside Wheeler's.

The motive behind this action is usually to reduce the chances of a police check of two on a motor bicycle .

ride

The intrepid four took part in a gruelling sponsored 50-mile bicycle ride .

That's quite a bicycle ride .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All her bicycle needed was some regular use.

And so does riding a bicycle , with many protruding branches to track and avoid.

Britain still has a bicycle industry; frames and complete bicycles are manufactured here, though most of the components are imported.

Chastened, you pick up the bicycle and shuffle indoors, convinced you have ruined everything for good.

I have this new house and a new bicycle .

In learning a task, how to ride a bicycle , for example, one attends at first to every muscular movement.

Then he came around the bend and saw the bicycle .

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.