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In obsolete terms the difference between period and date

is that period is a specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage while date is given or assigned length of life; duration.

In lang=en terms the difference between period and date

is that period is 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 while date is assigned end; conclusion.

As nouns the difference between period and date

is that period is the length of time for a disease to run its course while date is the fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.

As verbs the difference between period and date

is that period is to come to a period; to conclude while date is to note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.

As an adjective period

is appropriate for a given historical era.

As an interjection period

is and nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.

period

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Adjective

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  • Appropriate for a given historical era.
  • * 2004 , Mark Singer, Somewhere in America , Houghton Mifflin, page 70:
    • 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.
  • Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.

    • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (chiefly, North America) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
    • When I say "eat your dinner," it means "eat your dinner," period !

    Synonyms

    * (and nothing else) full stop

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
  • An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
  • * , II.3:
    • All comes to one period , whether man make an end of himselfe, or whether he endure it.
  • * Milton
    • So spake the archangel Michael; then paused, / As at the world's great period .
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • evils which shall never end till eternity hath a period
  • * Shakespeare
    • This is the period of my ambition.
  • A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
    • 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.
  • The punctuation mark “. ” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
  • A length of time.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Steven Morris, work=Guardian
    • , title= 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 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):
    • The Death of Patroclus was the most eminent Period ; and consequently the most proper Time for such Games.
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , title= 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.}}
  • * 2009 {{cite web
    • , date=20 November 2009 citation , title=Gene Dmel\per, format=Gene Report (database record) , work=FlyBase, publisher=The FlyBase Consortium , language=en, accessdate=7 December, accessyear=2009}}
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * pseudoperiod, pseudoperiodic

    Synonyms

    * * See also

    Antonyms

    * (length of time of recurrence of a periodic phenomenon) frequency

    See also

    * (punctuation)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To come to a period; to conclude.
  • * Owen Felltham
    • For you may period upon this, that where there is the most pity for others, there is the greatest misery in the party pitied.
  • To put an end to.
    • (Shakespeare)

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    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • (of time)

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , period, periodi , perioda, perioda , periodu, periodima , period, periode , periode, periodi , periodu, periodima , periodom, periodima }}

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    date

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) datte, from (etyl) dactylus, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera , somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
    • We made a nice cake from dates .
  • The date palm.
    • There were a few dates planted around the house.
    Derived terms
    * date fish * date mussel * date palm * date plum * date shell * date tree

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) date, and Die.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made.
    • the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc.
    US date''' : 05/24/08 = Tuesday, May 24th, 2008. UK '''date : 24/05/08 = Tuesday 24th May 2008.
  • * 1681 , (John Dryden), The Spanish Friar
    • And bonds without a date , they say, are void.
  • The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle. A specific day.
    • the date for pleading
  • * 1844 , (Mark Akenside), (The Pleasures of the Imagination), Book II
    • He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fix'd the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest.
    Do you know the date of the wedding?
    We had to change the dates of the festival because of the flooding.
  • A point in time
    • You may need that at a later date .
  • (rare) Assigned end; conclusion.
  • * (rfdate) (Alexander Pope),
    • What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date .
  • (obsolete) Given or assigned length of life; duration.
  • * (rfdate) (Edmund Spenser),
    • Good luck prolonged hath thy date .
  • * (rfdate) (George Chapman) (translator), (Homer) (author), (w) , Volume 1, Book IV, lines 282–5,
    • As now Saturnius, through his life's whole date ,
    Hath Nestor's bliss raised to as steep a state,
    Both in his age to keep in peace his house,
    And to have children wise and valorous.
  • A pre-arranged social meeting.
    • I arranged a date with my Australian business partners.
  • A companion when one is partaking in a social occasion.
    • I brought Melinda to the wedding as my date .
  • A meeting with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
    • We really hit it off on the first date , so we decided to meet the week after.
    We slept together on the first date .
    The cinema is a popular place to take someone on a date .
    Derived terms
    * * blind date * date night * date of birth * date rape * double date * due date * expiry date, expiration date * sell-by date * speed date * transaction date * use-by date
    Descendants
    * German:

    Verb

    (dat)
  • To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
  • * (rfdate) (Joseph Addison)
    • You will be surprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois.
  • * 1801 [1796 January], (William Cobbett), A New Year's Gift'', ''Porcupine's works , footnote, page 430,
    • I keep to the very words of the letter; but that, by "this State," is meant the State of Pennsylvania, cannot be doubted, especially when we see that the letter is dated at Philadelphia.
  • * 1913 [1863], (Marcus Aurelius), , G. Bell and Sons, page 227,
    • In these countries much of his Journal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them; and there, a few weeks before his fifty-ninth birthday, he fell sick and died.
  • To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of.
  • To determine the age of something.
  • To take (someone) on a series of dates.
  • To have a steady relationship with, to be romantically involved with.
  • * 2008 May 15, NEWS.com.au , "Jessica Simpson upset John Mayer dating Jennifer Aniston":
    • Jessica Simpson reportedly went on a drinking binge after discovering ex-boyfriend John Mayer is dating Jennifer Aniston.
  • Of a couple, to be in a romantic relationship.
  • To become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
  • To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
  • * (rfdate) (Edward Everett)
    • The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
    Usage notes
    * To note the time of writing one may say dated at' or ' from a place.

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