Word Finder - period

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A length of time.

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There was a period of confusion following the announcement.

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A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.

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Food rationing continued in the post-war period.

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The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).

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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.

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Female menstruation.

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

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A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.

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

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Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.

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I have math class in second period.

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Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.

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Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.

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The length of time for a disease to run its course.

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An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.

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A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.

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A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.

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A row in the periodic table of the elements.

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A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix: Geologic timescale.

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A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.

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Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).

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The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.

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End point, conclusion.

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To come to a period; to conclude.

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To put an end to.

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Designating anything from a given historical era.

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a period TV commercial

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Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.

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That's final; that's the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence); end of story

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I know you don't want to go to the dentist but your teeth need to be checked, period!

They covered a period of twenty years.

Yet it was a short period of time for so much to have happened to them.

There is no such period and never will be.

The interior begged to be furnished with period pieces.

During this three-year period, conveniently named by the Chinese "The Three Years of Natural Disasters," no one really knows how many people died; estimates range from fifteen million to a high of more than forty-five million.

She finished with a question and answer period and there were quite a few queries that seemed to impress her.

Even in summer the double period is not prominent in the arctic climate of Karasjok or on the top of the Eiffel Tower.

At this period the preceptors of the tsarevich had the highest opinion of his ability; but, unfortunately, it was not the sort of ability that his father could make use of.

For the Pavlograd hussars, however, the whole of this retreat during the finest period of summer and with sufficient supplies was a very simple and agreeable business.

Within a four-hour period, Hannah had dropped $50K.

Only once during this period did the young tsar come forward and assert his authority.

Now the early Christian centuries were anything but a period of scientific research.

His military authority was confined to Italy; and his power of life and death over the citizens was at an early period limited by law.

He played an active part in the stirring church politics of the period, and was twice moderator of the kirk, and a member of the commission of inquiry into the condition of the university of St Andrews (1583).

The older formations are nearly all overlaid by deposits of the Quaternary period, which will be described last.

The older formation of the Quaternary period is the Lafayette (also called "Orange-sand" or "stratified drift"), which immediately overlies all the Cretaceous groups except the prairies of the Selma chalk, and all the Tertiary except the Porters Creek and Vicksburg formations and parts of the Jackson.

The shrimp fishery, too, grew during the same period.

The public school system, established in 1846, never was universal, because of special legislation for various counties; public education was retarded during the Civil War and the Reconstruction period (when immense sums appropriated for schools were grossly mismanaged), but conditions gradually improved after 1875, especially through the concentration of schools.

Mississippi suffered less than most of the other Southern states during the Reconstruction period; but expenditures rose from $463,219.71 in 1869 to $1,729,046.34 in 1871.

The history of Mississippi may be divided into the period of exploration (154 1699), the period of French rule (1699-1763), the period of English rule (1763-1781), the period of Spanish rule (1781-1798), the territorial period (1798-1817), and the period of statehood (1817 seq.).

A diorite statuette, referable by its style and inscription to Dynasty XIII., was discovered in deposit of Period II.

Those of the later Lacustrine period, on the contrary, are so numerous that there is scarcely one lacustrine basin in the regions of the Oka, the Kama, the Dnieper, not to speak of the lake-region itself, and even the White Sea coasts, where remains of Neolithic man have not been discovered.

Settlements belonging to the Stone age, and manufactories of stone implements, burial-grounds of the Bronze epoch, earthen forts and burial-mounds (kurgans) - of this last four different types are known, the earliest belonging to the Bronze period - are superposed, rendering the task of unravelling their several relations one of great difficulty.

This may be explained by a variety of causes, of which the chief is the maintenance by the Slays down to a very late period of gentile or tribal organization and gentile marriages, a fact vouched for, not only in the pages of the Russian chronicler Nestor, but still more by visible social evidences, the gens later developing into the village community, and the colonization being carried on by large co-ordinated bodies of people.

The complete suppression of these small moribund states and the creation of the autocratic tsardom of Muscovy were the work of Ivan III., surnamed the Great, his son Basil and his grandson Ivan IV., commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, whose united reigns cover a period of 122 years (1462-1584).

According to Siegmund von Herberstein (1486-1566), an Austrian envoy who visited Moscow at that period, no sovereign in Europe was obeyed like the grand-prince of Muscovy, and his court was remarkable for barbaric luxury.

Accompanied by these so-called Oprichniki, who have been compared to the Turkish Janissaries of the worst period, he ruthlessly devastated large districts - with no other object apparently than that of terrorizing the population and rewarding his myrmidons - and during a residence of six weeks in Novgorod, lest the old turbulent spirit of the municipal republic should revive, he massacred, it is said, no less than 60,000 of the inhabitants, including many women and children.

On the whole, however, at that period as in more recent times, they contributed largely to the process of territorial expansion.

Thus began a period of Russian history commonly called " the Troublous Times, " which lasted until 1613.

During this period, which lasted from 1725 to 1762, the male line of the Romanov dynasty became extinct, and the succession passed to various members of the female line, which intermarried with German princes.

The main events of the period may be summarized very briefly.

Like Alexander in the last period of his reign, Nicholas considered himself the supreme guardian of European order, and was ever on the watch to oppose revolution in all its forms. Hence he was generally in strained relations with France, especially in the time of Louis Philippe, who became king not by the grace of God but by the will of the people.

The local self-government institutions after a short period of feverish and not always well-directed activity, showed symptoms of organic exhaustion.

During this period the relations between the two governments and the two countries became much more cordial.

The new tsar, Alexander III., was an apt pupil of his tutor Pobedonostsev (q.v.), the celebrated procurator of the Holy Synod, for whom the representative system was a modern lie," and his reign covered a period of frank reaction, during which there was not only no question of affected even the stolid and apparently immovable masses of the peasantry.

At a later period he was released from close confinement and allowed to settle in Mexico, where a pension was given him.

In the United States and in certain other countries, a fiscal year, ending on the 30th of June or at some other irregular period, is substituted for the calendar year.

After the reconstruction period of the 1893 panic, however, the tendency for a number of years was to spend larger sums in bettering existing railways rather than in new extensions.

Moreover, the average tractive power per locomotive and the average capacity per freight car advanced greatly in this period, although specific figures cannot be given.

The company therefore promotes a bill, which is considered first by select committees of the two houses of parliament, and afterwards by the two houses themselves, during which period it faces the opposition, if any, of rival concerns, of local authorities and of hostile landowners.

If the officer appointed by the Board of Trade should, after inspection of the railway, report to the department that in his opinion " the opening of the same would be attended with danger to the public using the same, by reason of the incompleteness of the works or permanent way, or the insufficiency of the establishment for working such railway," it is lawful for the department to direct the company to postpone the opening of the line for any period not exceeding one month at a time, the process being repeated from month to month as often as may be necessary.

A reasonable period was afforded them, according to circumstances, to comply with these requirements, and at the present time the work is practically complete.

In the period before 1850 there was but little realization of the public nature of the railway industry and of the possibilities of injury to the public if railway corporations were left uncontrolled.

In the United States a committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers, appointed to consider the question of rail manufacture in consequence of an increase in the number of rail-failures, issued an interim report in 1907 in which it suggested a range of carbon from 0-55 to 0-65% for the heaviest sections of Bessemer steel flange rails, with a phosphorus maximum of 0.085%; while the specifications of the American Society for Testing Materials, current at the same period, put the carbon limits at o 45 to 0-55%, and the phosphorus limit at o io.

Since high average speed on a line with frequent stops depends largely on rapidity of acceleration, the tendency in modern equipment is to secure as great an output of power as possible during the accelerating period, with corresponding increase in weight available for adhesion.

In the Pleistocene period many large lakes were formed within the Great Basin; especially, by the fusion of small catchment basins, two great confluent bodies of water - Lake Lahontan (in the Nevada basin) and Lake Bonneville (in the Utah basin).

At a later period, pari passe with the spiritualization of the god, comes a refinement of the tastes attributed to him, and the finer parts of the sacrifice, finally it may be only its savour, are alone regarded as acceptable offerings.

Luther at one period (in his treatise De captivitate Babylonica) maintained, though not on historical grounds, that the offering of the oblations of the people was the real origin of the conception of the sacrifice of the mass; but he directed all the force of his vehement polemic against the idea that any other sacrifice could be efficacious besides the sacrifice of Christ.

In search of materials for this purpose, Pertz made a prolonged tour through Germany and Italy, and on his return in 1823 he received at the instance of Stein the principal charge of the publication of Monumenta germaniae historica, texts of all the more important historical writers on German affairs down to the year 1500, as well as of laws, imperial and regal archives, and other valuable documents, such as letters, falling within this period.

The town has a public library and some old houses built in the colonial period, and is the seat of Phillips Exeter Academy (incorporated in 1781 and opened in 1783).