period
noun/ˈpɪriəd/
Слово англійською: period
Переклад period українською: період
Детальний опис
- a particular length of time
- a long/an extended period
- a short/brief period
- period of something a period of transition/uncertainty/expansion
- a period of two years/six months/four weeks
- a two-year/six-month/four-week period
- All these changes happened over a period of time.
- A year-to-year lease has no fixed time period.
- for a period The offer is available for a limited period only.
- This compares with a 4% increase for the same period last year.
- The project will run for a six-month trial period.
- over a period The hall will be closed over a 2-year period.
- during a period We know little of her life during that period.
- The aim is to reduce traffic at peak periods.
- Tomorrow will be cold with sunny periods.
- a length of time in the life of a particular person or in the history of a particular country
- Which period of history would you most like to have lived in?
- This textbook covers the post-war period.
- The church dates from the Norman period.
- We are currently studying the early medieval period.
- Like Picasso, she too had a blue period.
- Most teenagers go through a period of rebelling.
- (geology) a length of time which is a division of an era. A period is divided into epochs.
- the Jurassic period
- Dinosaurs died out during the Cretaceous period.
- any of the parts that a day is divided into at a school, college, etc. for study
- ‘What do you have next period?’ ‘French.’
- a free/study period (= for private study)
- the flow of blood each month from the body of a woman who is not pregnant
- period pains
- monthly periods
- When did you last have a period?
- (North American English) (British English full stop)the mark ( . ) used at the end of a sentence and in some abbreviations, for example e.g.
length of time
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punctuation
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting the time during which something, especially a disease, runs its course): from Old French periode, via Latin from Greek periodos ‘orbit, recurrence, course’, from peri- ‘around’ + hodos ‘way, course’. The sense ‘portion of time’ dates from the early 17th cent.