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Definition: Cyclops |
CyclopsNoun1. (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead. 2. Minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Cyclops" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Etymology: Cyclops \Cy"clops\, noun. singular & plural [Latin Cyclops, Greek Ky`klwps (strictly round-eyed), plural Ky`klwpes; ky`klos circle + 'w`ps eye.]. (references) |
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Literature | Cyclops One of a group of giants with only one eye, and that in the centre of their forehead, whose business it was to forge iron for Vulcan. They were probably Pelasgians, who worked in quarries, and attached a lantern to their forehead to give them light underground. The lantern was their one eye as big as the full moon. (Greek, "circular-eye.") (See Arimaspians) "Roused with the sound, the mighty family Of one-eyed brothers hasten to the shore, And gather round the bellowing Polypheme." Addison: Milton Imitated. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cyclops is a fictional character in the X-Men comic book, published by the Marvel Comics Group. He is a founding member and the field leader of the team of super hero mutants. He is married to another member, Marvel Girl (Jean Grey).
Cyclops (Scott "Slim" Summers) is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and a member of the X-Men. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, he first appeared in X-Men #1 (1963).
Cyclops is a mutant. He possesses the power to shoot beams of concussive force from his eyes. Unfortunately, he can't control these beams, so a special "ruby quartz" visor was developed to enable him to control his power.
When Cyclops was a boy growing up in Alaska, his father, Christopher, took the family for a flight in their airplane. It came under attack by an alien Shi'ar spaceship. As the plane caught fire and was crashing, Cyclops' parents fastened Cyclops and his younger brother, Alex (later to be the hero Havok) into a parachute and pushed them off the plane, in hopes that they would survive. Unfortunately, the parachute caught fire and Scott cuffered a head injury which resulted in his inability to control his optic blasts, as well as prolonged amnesia about his childhood.
Cyclops spent most of his childhood in an orphanage alone. When he was sixteen, he was found by Professor Charles Xavier and became one of his students and a member of the X-Men. He soon graduated to become the team's leader, a position he would hold several times over the years.
As a member of the X-Men, Cyclops evenutally met his father, now known as Corsair, leader of the Starjammers, a group of aliens opposing what they saw as the tyranny of the Shi'ar empire. It was nonetheless several more years before the two learned of each other's true identities.
Cyclops had an on-again/off-again relationship with Marvel Girl during their time in the X-Men, culminating in her tragic death when her power as Phoenix ran out of control. Cyclops left the X-Men for a while after this, drifting for several months until reunited with the team against Magneto.
Not long after, Cyclops met Madelyne Prior, an uncanny double of Marvel Girl, and they married.
Surprisingly, the original Marvel Girl was not dead; her Phoenix identity turned out to be an alien who replaced her while she lay in a coma at the bottom of the ocean. Revived by The Avengers and the Fantastic Four, she joined with Cyclops and the other original X-Men as X-Factor.
It was eventually revealed that Prior was a clone of Marvel Girl, created by the villain Mr. Sinister. Together they had a son, Nathan Christopher Summers. Eventually, Sinister took control of his clone and Prior became the villainous Goblin Queen. This chain of events led to Prior's death.
Cyclops and Marvel Girl eventually married. In 2000, Cyclops was killed while fighting Apocalypse, but he was later brought back to life.
In the X-Men film and its sequel, Cyclops was portrayed by James Marsden.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cyclops."
Synonym: CyclopsSynonym: water flea (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dupe | Noun: dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull, cully, victim, pigeon, April fool; jay, sucker; laughingstock; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool; puppet, cat's paw. |
Size | Giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton among the minnows". |
Strength | Athlete, gymnast, acrobat; superman, Atlas, Hercules, Antaeus, Samson, Cyclops, Goliath; tower of strength; giant refreshed. |
Unconformity | Phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur; saggittary; kraken, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid, merman, merfolk; unicorn; Cyclops, "men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders"; teratology. |
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Crosswords: Cyclops |
| English words defined with "Cyclops": Cyclop, cyclopean, Cyclopic ♦ Demetrius, Demetrius I, Demetrius Poliorcetes. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Cyclops": Brontes ♦ Giants ♦ Magic Rings. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Cyclops": Polyphemus. (references) |
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Screenplays | Okay, cyclops lady is really freaking me out. (Armageddon; writing credit: Robert Roy Pool; Jonathan Hensleigh) Hey! There's a Cyclops! (Yellow Submarine; writing credit: Al Brodax; Jack Mendelsohn) Ilsa, this is Cyclops, Blade, Dr, Death, Drill Sergeant, Pinhead, and Six-Shooter (Retro Puppet Master; writing credit: Charles B; Benjamin Carr) All I said was that our son, the apple of our three eyes, Martha being a cyclops, our son is a beanbag, and you get testy (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; writing credit: Edward Albee; Ernest Lehman) This is Scott Summers, also called Cyclops. They saved your life (X-Men; writing credit: Tom DeSanto; Bryan Singer) | |
Lyrics | And waste my cyclops time and mess up my cyclops mind (Cyclops Rock; performing artist: They Might Be Giants) I taught you how to Cyclops Rock (Cyclops Rock; performing artist: They Might Be Giants) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Cyclops (1957) Dr. Cyclops (1940) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Who was lost with USS Cyclops in March 1918. His cap band is from that ship. Credit: NAVY. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | We may say of it as of the blind Cyclops, (r)Ingens |
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| "Cyclops" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 52.94% of the time. "Cyclops" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 52.94% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 41.18% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 5.88% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Cyclops": Antigonus Cyclops ♦ cyclops spectacles ♦ genus Cyclops. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Cyclops"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | циклоп. (various references) | |
Danish | cyklop, cyclops. (various references) | |
Dutch | Cyclops, cycloop. (various references) | |
French | cyclops, cyclope. (various references) | |
German | Zyklop. (various references) | |
Greek | κύκλωψ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | küklopsz. (various references) | |
Italian | ciclope. (various references) | |
Manx | kickloap. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yclopscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ciclopes, ciclope. (various references) | |
Russian | циклопы, циклоп. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kiklopi. (various references) | |
Spanish | cíclope. (various references) | |
Swedish | cyklop. (various references) | |
Turkish | tek gözlü dev, kiklops. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | циклопи, циклоп. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Cyclops" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cycloase, cyclopse. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Cyclops" (pronounced sī"klô'ps) |
| 3 | -ô' p s | treetops, triceratops. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-l-o-p-s-y" | |
-1 letter: cyclos. | |
-2 letters: clops, cloys, cyclo, ploys, polys. | |
-3 letters: clop, cloy, cols, coly, cops, copy, cosy, coys, lops, ploy, pols, poly, posy, scop, slop. | |
-4 letters: col, cop, cos, coy, lop, ops, ply, pol, sly, sol, sop, soy, spy. | |
-5 letters: lo, op, os, oy, so, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-l-o-p-s-y" | |
+1 letter: cyclopes. | |
+3 letters: polycystic. | |
+4 letters: capaciously, cyclopedias, cytoplasmic, epicycloids, polyclinics, psychologic, pyroclastic. | |
+5 letters: capriciously, cyclopaedias, cyclosporine, hypocycloids, polytechnics, precociously, prostacyclin, psychosocial. | |
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