Period
['pɪərɪəd] or ['pɪrɪəd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; 'in England they call a period a stop'.
(noun.) the end or completion of something; 'death put a period to his endeavors'; 'a change soon put a period to my tranquility'.
(noun.) a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; 'ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods'.
(noun.) (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games.
(noun.) the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon.
汉丽埃塔整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.
(n.) A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.
(n.) One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
(n.) The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.
(n.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
(n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
(n.) 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 circulating decimals.
(n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.
(n.) A complete musical sentence.
(v. t.) To put an end to.
(v. i.) To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.
校對:塔玛拉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Cycle, circle of time, revolution of time, round of years.[2]. Time, term, era, epoch, date, age.[3]. End, limit, bound, termination, conclusion.[4]. (Rhet.) Sentence (full or completed), proposition.[5]. (Gram.) Dot, full stop.
安东錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Time, date, epoch, era, age, duration, continuance, limit, bound, end,conclusion, determination
ANT:Eternity, datelessness, immemoriality, infinity, perpetuity, illimitability,endlessness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness
錄入:罗莎莉
解釋/意思:
n. the time in which anything is performed: (astron.) the time occupied by one of the heavenly bodies in making its revolution: a stated interval of time at the end of which certain events begin again to go through the same course as before: a series of events: a series of years: length of duration: the time at which anything ends: conclusion: (gram.) a mark at the end of a sentence: (rhet.) a complete sentence.—v.t. (Shak.) to put an end to.—adjs. Period′ic -al pertaining to a period: happening by revolution: occurring at regular intervals: pertaining to periodicals.—ns. Period′ical a magazine or other publication which appears in parts at regular periods; Period′icalist one who writes in a periodical.—adv. Period′ically.—n. Periodic′ity state of being periodic: tendency to happen over again at regular intervals of time.—Periodical literature literature published in magazines &c.; Periodic function one whose operation being iterated a certain number of times restores the variable: a function having a period; Periodic inequality a disturbance in the motion of a planet due to its position in its orbit relatively to another planet; Periodic law (chem.) a relation of elements according to their atomic weights.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Hence, provision was made for carrying a large stock of oil, and for giving a certain period of rest to that already used. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Before leaving this period of his career, it is to be noted that it gave Edison many favorable opportunities. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I am not sufficiently acquainted with such subjects to know whether it is at all remarkable that I almost always dreamed of that period of my life. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Among the earliest fire-arms of this period one was invented which was a breech-loader and revolver. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In either case the distance through which the prongs move is very small and the period is very short, so that the eye can seldom detect the movement itself. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In the medieval period there was a religious individualism. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Throughout the whole period of Mr. Candy's illness, from first to last, not one word about the Diamond escaped his lips. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The empire of the Great King enters upon a period of decay. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Everybody is taken in at some period or other. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- This is a determinant which burrows beneath our ordinary classification of progressive and reactionary to the spiritual habits of a period. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- A great deal of business was transacted in this short period. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The longer the period of rest of each picture on the screen, the better the detail and the clearer the picture. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- About a month before this period, some ingenious Frenchman had completed the discovery in the manner originally proposed by Dr. Franklin. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- There is another possible mode of transition, namely, through the acceleration or retardation of the period of reproduction. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Such a companion for herself in the periods of anxiety and cheerlessness before her! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He infers that many species have kept true for long periods, whereas a few have become modified. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- There have been other periods of revolution. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In the earlier periods of the monarchy, the clergy of France appear to have been as much devoted to the pope as those of any other country. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But the relative values of those two different species of food, bread and butcher's meat, are very different in the different periods of agriculture. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Tumbled together on the table are some pieces of iron, purposely broken to be tested at various periods of their service, in various capacities. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Habits easily become associated with other habits, with certain periods of time and states of the body. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Moreover, between each successive formation we have, in the opinion of most geologists, blank periods of enormous length. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Long periods of slowness and stagnation have alternated with shorter or longer periods of prolific growth, and these with seasons of slumber and repression. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Such periods have recurred in history. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But the value of this evidence depends entirely on the perfection of the geological record, in relation to periods remote in the history of the world. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- During the alternate periods of elevation and of stationary level the record will generally be blank. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Did they have restaurants there at three different periods of the world? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- From a very early age, however, there is no distinction of exclusive periods of play activity and work activity, but only one of emphasis. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The performance of this duty requires, too, very different degrees of expense in the different periods of society. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
編輯:特伦斯