Period vs Glass - What's the difference?
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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)
(lb) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
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The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass .
(lb) Glassware.
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A mirror.
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A magnifying glass or telescope.
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(lb) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
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A barometer.
*(Louis MacNeice) (1907-1963)
*:The glass is falling hour by hour.
Transparent or translucent.
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(lb) An hourglass.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:She would not live / The running of one glass .
To furnish with glass; to glaze.
To enclose with glass.
To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
* 1987, John Godber, Bouncers
* 2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoter's Tale
* 2003, Mark Sturdy, Pulp
(label) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
* 2012 , Halo: First Strike,
*:“The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.
To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
* 2000 , Ben D. Mahaffey, 50 Years of Hunting and Fishing , page 95:
To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
(archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.
* Motley
* Byron
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.As a noun period
is (obsolete|medicine) the length of time for a disease to run its course.As a verb period
is (obsolete|intransitive) to come to a period; to conclude.As a proper noun glass is
.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.
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Statistics
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* 1000 English basic words ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==Noun
Declension
{{sh-decl-noun , period, periodi , perioda, perioda , periodu, periodima , period, periode , periode, periodi , periodu, periodima , periodom, periodima }}References
* ----glass
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(wikipedia glass)Noun
The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass' sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain ' glass paperweight.}}
Derived terms
* carnival glass * cheval glass * eyeglasses * glassblower * glassblowing * glasses * glassformer * glass frog * glasshouse * glass jaw * glassless * glassmaker * glassware * glasswork * glassworker * glassy * isinglass * looking glass * magnifying glass * spyglassDescendants
* Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l),Verb
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p. 19:
- JUDD. Any trouble last night?
- LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed .
p. 72:
- I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed , or viciously assaulted.
p. 139:
- One night he was in this nightclub in Sheffield and he got glassed by this bloke who’d been just let out of prison that day.
p. 190:
- Andy took his binoculars and glassed the area below.
- Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror.
- Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.