period

«period» in Mova's school dictionary: a length of time — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a period, periods); adjective (period — of a past age, e.g. period costume)

meaning for a pupil

1) A period is a length of time. tree →

2) At school, a period is one lesson in the timetable. tree →

3) In American English, a period is the dot (.) at the end of a sentence; British English calls it a full stop. tree →

4) A period is the time in history, like the Victorian period. tree →

5) A period is the time each month when a woman or girl bleeds from her womb (menstruation). tree →

6) In science, a period is a row in the periodic table. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, a period is a length of time measured in seconds, minutes or hours, and in problems "over a period of three hours" tells you the time. In history, periods are ages like the Stone Age or Tudor period. In health lessons, girls learn that periods are a normal part of growing up. In sport, matches like ice hockey are divided into periods.

examples

• Maths is in the first period. tree →
• Over a period of two weeks, the seed grew ten centimetres. tree →
• Put a period at the end of the sentence. tree →
• We are studying the Roman period. tree →
• Dinosaurs lived in a period called the Mesozoic. tree →
• Periods are a normal part of growing up for girls. tree →
• Ice hockey has three periods. tree →
• Then came a dreadful period, when news from the king ceased entirely. tree →

note

Countable. "Period" for "full stop" is mainly American. Adjective: periodic, periodical. In maths, "per period" means for each length of time.

In the corpora

• The Renaissance was a period of new learning and art in Europe from around 1400 to 1600.
• "That time of the month" means a woman's monthly period.
• "Aunt Flo" is a joking American way to talk about a period; there is no aunt.
• "Furloughed" means sent home from work for a period, often unpaid.
• In the EU5 period there were no time zones at all; each place kept its own sun time.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «period» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.