period
US: /ˈpɪɹiəd/
UK: /pˈiəɹɪəd/
UK: /pˈiəɹɪəd/
English Vietnamese dictionary
period /'piəriəd/
- danh từ
- kỷ, kỳ, thời kỳ, giai đoạn, thời gian
- the periods of history: những thời kỳ lịch sử
- periods of a disease: các thời kỳ của bệnh
- a period of rest: một thời gian nghỉ
- thời đại, thời nay
- the girl of the period: cô gái thời nay
- tiết (học)
- ((thường) số nhiều) kỳ hành kinh
- (toán học); (vật lý); (thiên văn học) chu kỳ
- period of a circulating decimal: chu kỳ của một số thập phân tuần hoàn
- period of oscillation: chu kỳ dao động
- (ngôn ngữ học) câu nhiều đoạn
- (ngôn ngữ học) chấm câu; dấu chấm câu
- to put a period to: chấm dứt
- (số nhiều) lời nói văn hoa bóng bảy
- kỷ, kỳ, thời kỳ, giai đoạn, thời gian
- tính từ
- (thuộc) thời đại, mang tính chất thời đại, mang màu sắc thời đại (đã qua) (đồ gỗ, quần áo, kiến trúc)
Advanced English dictionary
noun, adverb, adjective
+ noun
length of time
1 a particular length of time: a period of consultation / mourning / uncertainty + The factory will be closed down over a 2-year period / a period of two years. + This compares with a 4% increase for the same period last year. + This offer is available for a limited period only. + The aim is to reduce traffic at peak periods. + You can have it for a trial period (= in order to test it). + The project will run for a six-month trial period. + Tomorrow will be cold with sunny periods.
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2 a length of time in the life of a particular person or in the history of a particular country: Which period of history would you most like to have lived in? + the post-war period + The church dates from the Norman period. + Like Picasso, she too had a blue period. + Most teenagers go through a period of rebelling.
3 a particular length of time during which rocks are formed: the Jurassic period
lesson
4 any of the parts that a day is divided into at a school, college, etc. for study: 'What do you have next period?' 'French.' + a free / study period (= for private study)
woman
5 the flow of blood each month from the body of a woman who is not pregnant: period pains + monthly periods + When did you last have a period?
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punctuation
6 (AmE) = FULL STOP noun
+ adverb (spoken, especially AmE) = FULL STOP adv.: The answer is no, period!
+ adjective [only before noun] having a style typical of a particular time in history: period costumes / furniture
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 interval, time, term, span, duration, spell, space, stretch; while; Colloq chiefly Brit patch:
During the period of his absence, his children had grown up. I waited a short period, then phoned again. We went through a bad period last year.
2 era, days, epoch, aeon, age, years:
During the Old English period, very little was written down.
3 full stop:
Place periods at the ends of sentences.
Collocation dictionary
1 length of time
ADJ.
extended, lengthy, long, prolonged | brief, limited, short
The offer is only available for a limited period.
| full
You have been paid for the full period of your employment with us.
| fixed, set
The medication is prescribed for a fixed period of time.
| indefinite | early, late
the late Victorian period
| happy
a happy period in her life
| dark, difficult, lean
a dark period in the country's history
| critical
a critical period in the development of the project
| interim, intervening | transitional | off-peak, peak | Christmas | medieval, Tudor, etc. | inter-war, post-war | accounting | cooling-off
The customer has the right to cancel the contract during the seven-day cooling-off period.
| formative
The most formative period of life is childhood.
| gestation, incubation | rest | training | waiting | trial
You can use the software free for a 30-day trial period.
| time
VERB + PERIOD
cover
the period covered by the book
PERIOD + VERB
begin, commence | end | last
PERIOD + NOUN
costume, furniture
PREP.
after a ~
after a long period of waiting
| during/throughout the ~
during the intervening period
| for a ~
We lived in Caracas for a brief period.
| in/within a/the ~
Sales have gone up in the last-five-year period.
| over a/the ~
There will be a reduced bus service over the Christmas period. Changes were monitored over a period of two months.
| within a/the ~
Committee members will not be eligible for re-election within a period of two years.
| ~ between
the period between his resigning and finding a new job
| ~ from … to …
the period from 1 July to 31 December
PHRASES
the beginning/end/start of a period, a period of history, sb's period of office
Public spending was cut during his period of office.
| a period of study
Try breaking your period of study into 20-minute blocks.
| a period of time
The balance must be paid within an agreed period of time.
| a period of transition
a period of transition between communist rule and democratic government
2 menstruation
ADJ.
heavy, light | menstrual | monthly
VERB + PERIOD
have
I've got my period and don't feel too great.
| start
I was thirteen when I started my periods.
PERIOD + VERB
start | stop | last
PERIOD + NOUN
pains
Concise English dictionary
periods'pɪrɪəd /'pɪər-
noun
+an amount of time
+one of three periods of play in hockey games
+a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time
+the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
+the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
+a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
+a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
+the end or completion of something
