Meaning of period | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A length of time.
2. phase, stage
3. Of, belonging to, or representing a certain historical age or time: a period piece; period furniture.
4. A length of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
5. Used to emphasize finality, as when expressing a decision or an opinion: You're not going to the movies tonight, period!
6. The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
   Canada, Philippines, US
7. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of far
8. (of furniture, costumes etc) of or from the same or appropriate time in history; antique or very old. period costumes; His house is full of period furniture (=antique furniture). tydperk من نَفْس الفَتْرَه стар de época dobový, historický zeitgeschichtlich, Stil... tidstypisk; stil- εποχής (π.χ. για ένδυμα) de época ajalooline وابسته به دوره بخصوص؛ قدیمی historiallinen d'époque תקופה प्राचीन starinski, historijski korabeli; stíl- zaman dulu frá tilteknu tímabili (d'epoca) 時代物の 시대 senovinis, b...
   etc
9. A decisive end to something; a stop.
   figuratively
10. We see each other periodically. nou en dan, gereeld دَوْرِيَّا، في فَتَرات مُنْتَظَمَه периодично periodicamente pravidelně regelmäßig lejlighedsvist περιοδικάperiódicamente perioodiliselt گهگاه؛ متناوباً säännöllisesti périodiquement בְּמַחזוֹרִיוּת नियतकाल में periodički időnként kadang-kadang reglulega; öðru hverju periodicamente 定期的に 정기적으로 periodiškai periodiski, regulāri secara berkala met regelmatige tussenpozen med jevne mellomrom okresowo په روڼ، وار periodicamente periodic время от в...
11. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
12. a magazine which is issued regularly (every week, month etc). tydskrif مَجَلَّه أو نَشْرَة دَورِيَّه периодично издание periódico časopis die Zeitschrift tidsskrift περιοδικόperiódico, publicación periódica ajakiri مجله ای که با فاصله زمانی مشخص چاپ می شود aikakauslehti périodique כְּתָב-עֵת आवर्ती perodičan, periodika folyóirat berkala tímarit periodico 定期刊行物 정기 간행물 periodinis leidinys periodisks izdevums berkala tijdschrifttidsskriftczasopismo وارى، وڼۍ، نوبتي، موقوته periódico peri­­o­dic,...
    etc
13. Female menstruation; an episode of this.
    euphemistic
14. see periodic.
    see
15. The set of symptoms associated with menstruation, even if not accompanied by menstruation; an episode of these symptoms.
    euphemistic
16. An interval of time characterized by the occurrence of a certain condition, event, or phenomenon: a period of economic prosperity.
17. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
18. An interval of time characterized by the prevalence of a specified culture, ideology, or technology: artifacts of the pre-Columbian period.
19. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
20. An interval regarded as a distinct evolutionary or developmental phase: Picasso's early career is divided into his blue period and rose period.
21. Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.
22. Geology A unit of time, longer than an epoch and shorter than an era.
    Geology
23. One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.
24. The length of time for a disease to run its course.
    obsolete
25. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process, a state, an event, etc.
    archaic
26. A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
    rhetoric
27. A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
    obsolete
28. A row in the periodic table of the elements.
29. A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.
30. A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
31. Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
32. The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.

Equivalents

Examples

“There was a period of confusion following the announcement.”

“You'll be on probation for a six-month period.”

“Philip Miles, defending, said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."”

“Food rationing continued in the post-war period.”

“With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.”

“Sung Yung-hsi of Ch’u-hsiung was a government student during the Chia-ch’ing period.”

“‘You know, a period? The black spot at the end of a sentence — what do you call them over there?’”

“My sufferings, physical and mental, are more than I can bear, and when such small arrangements as I have to make for your future well-being are completed it is my intention to put a period to them.”

“When she is on her period, she prefers not to go swimming.”

“This is one of the last paintings Picasso created during his Blue Period.”

“I have math class in second period.”

“Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.”

“They won in the first overtime period.”

“As thus all gazed on hir, so she glaunced hir lookes on all, surueying them as curiously, as they noted hir exactly, but at last she set downe her period on the face of Alexis […]”

“And if my death might make this island happy, And prove the period of their tyranny, I would expend it with all willingness:”

“Why now let me die, for I haue liu'd long enough : This is the period of my ambition : O this bleſſed houre.”

“All comes to one period, whether man make an end of himſelfe, or whether he endure-it[…].”

“When Loue thus in his Center ends, Desire and Hope, his inward friends Are shaken off: while Doubt and Griefe, The weakest giuers of reliefe, Stand in his councell as the chiefe: And now he to his period brought, From Loue becomes some other thought.”

“Set up an hour-glasse; hee’l go on untill The last sand make his Period.”

“[…]and yet this is but the ἀρχή ὠδίνων, the Beginning of those evils which shall never End till eternity hath a period[…]”

“So ſpake th’ Archangel Michael, then paus’d, / As at the Worlds great period ; and our Sire / Replete with joy and wonder thus repli’d.”

“Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.”

“that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.”

“In declamatory periods Dr Fordyce spins out Rousseau's eloquence […]”

“A very superior gentleman, Mr. Kenge. Truly eloquent indeed. Some of his periods quite majestic!”

“He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved.”

“The Death of Patroclus was the most eminent Period; and consequently the most proper Time for such Games.”

“These fossils are from the Jurassic period.”

“Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Sites such as Lyme Regis in Dorset have particularly yielded number of Jurassic “squid” ink sacs and nodules (Doguzhaeva et al. 2004).”

“Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the period gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens.”

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