English to English
noun
- an amount of time
A time period of 30 years.
Hastened the period of time of his recovery.
Picasso's blue period.
source: WordNet 3.0
- the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
source: WordNet 3.0
- (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
source: WordNet 3.0
- a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
Ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods.
source: WordNet 3.0
- the end or completion of something
Death put a period to his endeavors.
A change soon put a period to my tranquility.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.
source: Webster 1913
verb
- To put an end to.
source: Webster 1913
- To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
noun
- [píriod] Panahon; tagal; lwat; láon
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
