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period


 
  Grep  of  noun  period 
  cambrian  period 
  carboniferous  period 
  cretaceous  period 
  devonian  period 
  duty  period 
  fertile  period 
  final  period 
  first  period 
  geological  period 
  gestation  period 
  glacial  period 
  historic  period 
  historical  period 
  incubation  period 
  jurassic  period 
  latency  period 
  latent  period 
  lower  carboniferous  period 
  lunar  time  period 
  lunch  period 
  missippian  period 
  neonatal  period 
  orbit  period 
  ordovician  period 
  overtime  period 
  pennsylvanian  period 
  period 
  period  of  play 
  period  of  time 
  period  piece 
  periodic  acid 
  periodic  apnea  of  the  newborn 
  periodic  breathing 
  periodic  event 
  periodic  law 
  periodic  sentence 
  periodic  table 
  periodical 
  periodical  cicada 
  periodicity 
  periodontal  disease 
  periodontia 
  periodontics 
  periodontist 
  periodontitis 
  permian  period 
  playing  period 
  precambrian  period 
  quaternary  period 
  refractory  period 
  rest  period 
  safe  period 
  second  period 
  silurian  period 
  tertiary  period 
  third  period 
  time  period 
  triassic  period 
  upper  carboniferous  period 
 
  Overview  of  noun  period 
 
  The  noun  period  has  9  senses  (first  9  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  (656)  time  period,  period,  period  of  time  --  (an  amount  of  time;  "a  time  period  of  30  years";  "hastened  the  period  of  his  recovery") 
  2.  (190)  period  --  (one  of  three  periods  of  play  in  hockey  games) 
  3.  (157)  period,  historic  period,  historical  period  --  (a  stage  in  the  history  of  a  culture  having  a  definable  place  in  space  and  time;  "a  novel  from  the  Victorian  period") 
  4.  (54)  period  --  (the  interval  taken  to  complete  one  cycle  of  a  regularly  repeating  phenomenon) 
  5.  (37)  period  --  (a  time  of  life  characterized  as  a  distinct  phase;  "Picasso's  blue  period";  "it  was  the  happy  period  of  my  life") 
  6.  (3)  menstruation,  menses,  catamenia,  period,  flow  --  (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) 
  7.  (3)  period,  point,  full  stop,  stop,  full  point  --  (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") 
  8.  (2)  period,  geological  period  --  (a  unit  of  geological  time  during  which  a  system  of  rocks  formed;  "ganoid  fishes  swarmed  during  the  earlier  geological  periods") 
  9.  (1)  period  --  (the  end  or  completion  of  something  "death  put  a  period  to  his  endeavors";  "a  change  soon  put  a  period  to  my  tranquility") 
 
  Grep  of  adj  period 
  periodic 
  periodical 
  periodontal 
  periodontic 
 
  Overview  of  noun  period 
 
  The  noun  period  has  9  senses  (first  9  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  (656)  time  period,  period,  period  of  time  --  (an  amount  of  time;  "a  time  period  of  30  years";  "hastened  the  period  of  his  recovery") 
  2.  (190)  period  --  (one  of  three  periods  of  play  in  hockey  games) 
  3.  (157)  period,  historic  period,  historical  period  --  (a  stage  in  the  history  of  a  culture  having  a  definable  place  in  space  and  time;  "a  novel  from  the  Victorian  period") 
  4.  (54)  period  --  (the  interval  taken  to  complete  one  cycle  of  a  regularly  repeating  phenomenon) 
  5.  (37)  period  --  (a  time  of  life  characterized  as  a  distinct  phase;  "Picasso's  blue  period";  "it  was  the  happy  period  of  my  life") 
  6.  (3)  menstruation,  menses,  catamenia,  period,  flow  --  (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) 
  7.  (3)  period,  point,  full  stop,  stop,  full  point  --  (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") 
  8.  (2)  period,  geological  period  --  (a  unit  of  geological  time  during  which  a  system  of  rocks  formed;  "ganoid  fishes  swarmed  during  the  earlier  geological  periods") 
  9.  (1)  period  --  (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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