Chapter vs Period - What's the difference?
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One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
A section of a social or religious body.
#An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
#An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
#A community of canons or canonesses.
#A bishop's council.
#An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
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#A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
#A chapter house.
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A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
*1866 , (Wilkie Collins), , Book the Last, Chapter I,
*:"You know that Mr. Armadale is alive," pursued the doctor, "and you know that he is coming back to England. Why do you continue to wear your widow's dress?" ¶ She answered him without an instant's hesitation, steadily going on with her work. ¶ "Because I am of a sanguine disposition, like you. I mean to trust to the chapter of accidents to the very last. Mr. Armadale may die yet, on his way home."
*1911 , (Bram Stoker), , Ch.26,
*:she determined to go on slowly towards Castra Regis, and trust to the chapter of accidents to pick up the trail again.
A decretal epistle.
:(Ayliffe)
(lb) A location or compartment.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
To divide into chapters.
To put into a chapter.
To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
* 2001 , John Palmer Hawkins, Army of Hope, Army of Alienation: Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany ,
* 2006 , Thomas R. Schombert, Diaries of a Soldier: Nightmares from Within ,
Appropriate for a given historical era.
* 2004 , Mark Singer, Somewhere in America , Houghton Mifflin, page 70:
Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.
(chiefly, North America) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
(obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
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* Milton
* Jeremy Taylor
* Shakespeare
A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
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, title= (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
* Ben Jonson
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
The punctuation mark “. ” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
A length of time.
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, title= The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
(obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
* 1720 , Alexander Pope, translating Homer, Iliad , Book IV (note 125):
Female menstruation.
A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
(chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
(geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see .
(genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
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(music) Two phrases (an antecedent]] and a [[consequent phrase, consequent phrase).
(math) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in recurring decimals.
(obsolete) To come to a period; to conclude.
* Owen Felltham
To put an end to.
(of time)
Chapter is a synonym of period.
As nouns the difference between chapter and period
is that chapter is one of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided while period is (obsolete|medicine) the length of time for a disease to run its course.As verbs the difference between chapter and period
is that chapter is to divide into chapters while period is (obsolete|intransitive) to come to a period; to conclude.As an adjective period is
appropriate for a given historical era.As an interjection period is
(chiefly|north america) and nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.chapter
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Alternative forms
* chaptre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* chapter and verse * chapter house * to the end of the chapterSee also
* overarchingExternal links
* *Verb
(en verb)page 117,
- If you're a single parent [soldier] and you can't find someone to take care of your children, they will chapter you out [administrative elimination from the service]. And yet if you use someone not certified, they get mad.
page 100,
- "He also wanted me to give you a message. He said that if you don't get your shit ready for this deployment, then he will chapter you out of his freakin' army."
Anagrams
* * * *period
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Alternative forms
*Adjective
(-)- As the guests arrived — there were about a hundred, a majority in period attire — I began to feel out of place in my beige summer suit, white shirt, and red necktie. Then I got over it. I certainly didn't suffer from Confederate-uniform envy.
Interjection
(en interjection)- When I say "eat your dinner," it means "eat your dinner," period !
Synonyms
* (and nothing else) full stopNoun
(en noun)- All comes to one period , whether man make an end of himselfe, or whether he endure it.
- So spake the archangel Michael; then paused, / As at the world's great period .
- evils which shall never end till eternity hath a period
- This is the period of my ambition.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
- Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.
- that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave, passage=Philip Miles, defending, said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."}}
- The Death of Patroclus was the most eminent Period ; and consequently the most proper Time for such Games.
Antibodies to the period gene product of drosophila reveal diverse tissue distribution and rhythmic changes in the visual system, volume=1, issue=2, page=141, year=1988, date=1 April, journal=Neuron , passage=Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the period gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens.}}
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Derived terms
* pseudoperiod, pseudoperiodicSynonyms
* * See alsoAntonyms
* (length of time of recurrence of a periodic phenomenon) frequencySee also
* (punctuation)Verb
(en verb)- For you may period upon this, that where there is the most pity for others, there is the greatest misery in the party pitied.
- (Shakespeare)