Period vs Stint - What's the difference?

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In obsolete intransitive terms the difference between period and stint

is that period is to come to a period; to conclude while stint is to stop speaking or talking (of a subject).

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

(-)

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.}}

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, 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

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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Noun

(of time)

Declension

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

References

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stint

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.

He had a stint in jail.

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limit; bound; restraint; extent

* South

God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.

Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

* Cowper

His old stint — three thousand pounds a year.

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To stop (an action); cease, desist.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:

O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife

* Shakespeare

And stint thou too, I pray thee.

* Sir Walter Scott

The damsel stinted in her song.

(obsolete) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).

* Late 14th century , :

Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf

To be sparing or mean.

The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.

To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.

* Woodward

I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.

* Law

She stints them in their meals.

To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.

To impregnate successfully; to get with foal; said of mares.

* J. H. Walsh

The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

(en noun)

Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris . Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

(medical device).

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