What is the difference between period and spell?
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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)
(obsolete) Speech, discourse.
Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
(obsolete) To speak, to declaim.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
(obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.
* T. Warton
To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
* Dryden
* Sir G. Buck
(obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
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To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
Of letters: to compose (a word).
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(figuratively) To indicate that (some event) will occur.
* 2003 , U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbel, Hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation , ISBN 1422334120:
To constitute; to measure.
* Fuller
To work in place of (someone).
To rest (someone or something).
A shift (of work); a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
A period of (work or other activity).
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, title= An indefinite period of time (usually with some qualifying word).
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A period of rest; time off.
(US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
(cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
Spell is a synonym of period.
In obsolete terms the difference between period and spell
is that period is a specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage while spell is to tell; to relate; to teach.As nouns the difference between period and spell
is that period is the length of time for a disease to run its course while spell is speech, discourse.As verbs the difference between period and spell
is that period is to come to a period; to conclude while spell is to speak, to declaim.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
English
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
* ----spell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) spel, spellian, spelian, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He cast a spell to cure warts.
- under a spell
Synonyms
* (words or formula supposed to have magical powers) cantrip, incantation * (magical effect induced by an incantation or formula) cantripVerb
(en verb)- O who can tell / The hidden power of herbes, and might of Magicke spell ?
- Might I that legend find, / By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes.
- Spelled with words of power.
- He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
- "He'll do," said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.
- I find it difficult to spell because I'm dyslexic.
- The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”.
citation
- This spells trouble.
- Please spell it out for me.
- When we get elected, for instance, we get one of these, and we are pretty much told what is in it, and it is our responsibility to read it and understand it, and if we do not, the Ethics Committee, we can call them any time of day and ask them to spell it out for us
- the Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect
Derived terms
* speller * spelling * spelloSynonyms
* (to indicate that some event will occur) forebode; mean; signify * (to work in place of someone else) relieve * (to compose a word) (informal) compriseEtymology 3
Origin uncertain; perhaps a form of (speld).Etymology 4
From (etyl) spelen, from (etyl) .Verb
- to spell the helmsman
- They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.}}
Liverpool 0-1 West Brom, passage=Despite his ill-fated spell at Anfield, he received a warm reception from the same Liverpool fans he struggled to win over before being sacked midway through last season.}}
- I had a job in the great North Woods
- Workin' as a cook for a spell .
- But I never did like it all that much
- And one day the ax just fell.