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(noun) a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop" |
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Synonyms: full point, full stop, point, stop |
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Related Words: punctuation, punctuation mark, suspension point |
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(noun) the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility" |
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Related Words: end, ending |
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(noun) a time of life characterized as a distinct phase; "Picasso's blue period"; "it was the happy period of my life" |
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Related Words: time of life |
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(noun) a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods" |
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Synonyms: geological period |
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Related Words: Age of Fishes, Age of Man, Cambrian, Cambrian period, Carboniferous, Carboniferous period, Cretaceous, Cretaceous period, Devonian, Devonian period, Jurassic, Jurassic period, Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous period, Missippian period, Mississippian, Ordovician, Ordovician period, Pennsylvanian, Pennsylvanian period, Permian, Permian period, Quaternary, Quaternary period, Silurian, Silurian period, Tertiary, Tertiary period, Triassic, Triassic period, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous period, geologic time, geological time, glacial epoch, glacial period, ice age |
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(noun) one of three periods of play in hockey games |
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Related Words: period of play, play, playing period |
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(noun) the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon |
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Related Words: interval, orbit period, time interval |
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(noun) a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period" |
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Synonyms: historic period, historical period |
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Related Words: amount of time, period, period of time, time period |
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(noun) an indefinite length of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of his recovery" |
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Synonyms: amount of time, period of time, time period |
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Related Words: Bronze Age, Eolithic Age, Golden Age, Indian summer, Iron Age, Mesolithic Age, Neolithic Age, Olympiad, Paleolithic Age, Platonic year, Saint Martin's summer, Stone Age, age, amount, bimester, bimillenary, bimillennium, bloom, blossom, calendar day, calendar month, calendar week, canicular days, canicule, century, civil day, clotting time, continuance, dark, dawn, day, daylight, daytime, decade, decennary, decennium, dog days, downtime, drought, duration, duty tour, early days, efflorescence, elapsed time, enlistment, epoch, era, eve, evening, extra time, festival, field day, flower, flush, forenoon, fortnight, generation, great year, half life, half-century, hebdomad, heyday, historic period, historical period, hitch, honeymoon, hour, hours, incubation period, indiction, lease, life, lifespan, lifetime, long haul, long run, long time, lunar time period, lustrum, measure, mid-April, mid-August, mid-December, mid-February, mid-January, mid-July, mid-June, mid-March, mid-May, mid-November, mid-October, mid-September, midwinter, millennium, month, morn, morning, morning time, multistage, nap, night, nighttime, noviciate, novitiate, overtime, past, peacetime, peak, period, phase, phase of the moon, point, point in time, prehistory, prime, prohibition, prohibition era, quantity, quantum, quarter, quarter-century, rainy day, regulation time, reign, running time, school, schooltime, season, semester, shelf life, silly season, silver age, sleep, stage, term, term of a contract, term of enlistment, tide, time, time limit, time of life, time of year, time off, tour, tour of duty, travel time, trimester, twelvemonth, two weeks, wartime, watch, week, weekend, work time, year, years, youth, yr |
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(noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle |
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Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation |
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Related Words: discharge, emission, expelling, hypermenorrhea, menorrhagia, oligomenorrhea |
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