Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Rhymes

  1. myriad

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. long
  2. same
  3. short
  4. year
  5. early
  6. later
  7. brief
  8. longer
  9. colonial
  10. earlier

Categorically Similar

  1. bce
  2. calendar
  3. ago

What Google Knows

Menstruation is the regular discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the inner lining of the uterus through the vagina. The menstrual cycle is characterized by the rise and fall of hormones.

Related Definition

  1. period:

    n A length of time.

    n A length of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.

    n (now chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).

    n (figurative) A decisive end to something; a stop.

    n 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.

    n (euphemistic) Female menstruation; an episode of this.

    n The set of symptoms associated with menstruation, even if not accompanied by menstruation; an episode of these symptoms.

    n A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.

    n Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.

    n (sports, chiefly ice hockey) Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.

    n (sports, chiefly ice hockey) One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.

    n (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.

    n An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.

    n (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.

    n (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.

    n (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.

    n (geology) A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.

    n (genetics) A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.

    n 20 November 2009, “Gene Dmel\per”, in FlyBase (Gene Report (database record)), The FlyBase Consortium, retrieved 2009-12-07:

    n (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).

    n (mathematics) The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.

    n (archaic) End point, conclusion.

    adj Designating anything from a given historical era.

    adj Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.

    v (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.

    v (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.


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