Meanings (ES + gloss)
periodo • período
A length of time.
There was a period of confusion following the announcement.
You'll be on probation for a six-month period.
punto
The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
‘You know, a period? The black spot at the end of a sentence — what do you call them over there?’
hora
Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
I have math class in second period.
periodo • período
Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.
Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.
periodo • período
A row in the periodic table of the elements.
periodo • período
A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.
Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Site…
These fossils are from the Jurassic period.
Phrases
Baroque periodClassical periodHamilton periodJulian periodMeiji periodNara periodPisano periodProtoliterate periodRomantic periodSothic periodUruk periodaccounting periodclosed periodcommon practice periodcontract periodcooling-off periodcritical perioddouble periodeigenperiodforeperiodfree periodgestation periodglacial periodgrace periodgrand period of growthgyroperiodhalf-periodhoneymoon periodhydroperiodincubation periodintraperiodlong-periodmedium-periodmenstrual periodmenstruation periodmidperiodmodern periodmultiperiodnonperiodnotice period