Alabama period () A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic. |
Catskill period () The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology. |
Champlain period () A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period |
Chemung period () A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology. |
Gothic (a.) Pertaining to the Goths |
Gothic (a.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital. |
Gothic (n.) The language of the Goths |
Gothic (n.) A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines. |
Gothic (n.) The style described in Gothic, a., 2. |
Hamilton period () A subdivision of the Devonian system of America |
Niagara period () A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology. |
Period (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 |
Period (n.) A stated and recurring interval of time |
Period (n.) One of the great divisions of geological time |
Period (n.) The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act |
Period (n.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another |
Period (n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word. |
Period (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. |
Period (n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission. |
Period (n.) A complete musical sentence. |
Period (v. t.) To put an end to. |
Period (v. i.) To come to a period |
Salina period () The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology. |
Style (v. t.) An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax. |
Style (v. t.) Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use. |
Style (v. t.) A pen |
Style (v. t.) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving |
Style (v. t.) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument. |
Style (v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects. |
Style (v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon. |
Style (v. t.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil. |
Style (v. t.) Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written |
Style (v. t.) Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts |
Style (v. t.) Conformity to a recognized standard |
Style (v. t.) Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated |
Style (v. t.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars. |
Style (v. t.) To entitle |
Trenton period () A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America |
course session class period recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
style | a slender bristlelike or tubular process, a cartilaginous style |
Gothic arch | a pointed arch, usually has a joint (instead of a keystone) at the apex |
period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
stylus style | a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving, he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus |
classical style | the artistic style of ancient Greek art with its emphasis on proportion and harmony |
dash elan flair panache style | distinctive and stylish elegance, he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer |
manner mode style way fashion | how something is done or how it happens, her dignified manner, his rapid manner of talking, their nomadic mode of existence, in the characteristic New York style, a lonely way of life, in an abrasive fashion |
artistic style idiom | the style of a particular artist or school or movement, an imaginative orchestral idiom |
life style life-style lifestyle modus vivendi | a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes |
hairdo hairstyle hair style coiffure coif | the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) |
vogue trend style | the popular taste at a given time, leather is the latest vogue, he followed current trends, the s had a style of their own |
haute couture high fashion high style | trend-setting fashions |
architectural style style of architecture type of architecture | architecture as a kind of art form |
Gothic Gothic architecture | a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the th and th centuries, characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches |
perpendicular perpendicular style English-Gothic English-Gothic architecture | a Gothic style in th and th century England, characterized by vertical lines and a fourentered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting |
style | a particular kind (as to appearance), this style of shoe is in demand |
style sheet | a sheet summarizing the editorial conventions to be followed in preparing text for publication |
Gothic romance | a romance that deals with desolate and mysterious and grotesque events |
style | editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display |
Gothic black letter | a heavy typeface in use from th to th centuries |
old style old style font | a typeface (based on an th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes |
period point full stop stop full point | 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 |
Gothic | extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths, the only surviving record being fragments of a thentury translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas |
expressive style style | a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period, all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper |
music genre musical genre genre musical style | an expressive style of music |
writing style literary genre genre | a style of expressing yourself in writing |
Nova Scotia lox Nova lox Nova Scotia salmon Nova salmon Nova style salmon | brineured salmon that is less salty than most, sometimes sugar is also used in the curing |
Gothic romancer | a writer of Gothic romances |
style | (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma |
menstruation menses menstruum catamenia period flow | the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause, the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation, a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped--Hippocrates, the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females--Aristotle |
time period period of time period | an amount of time, a time period ofyears, hastened the period of time of his recovery, Picasso's blue period |
trial period test period | a period of time during which someone or something is tested |
Quaternary Quaternary period Age of Man | last million years |
Tertiary Tertiary period | from million to million years ago |
Cretaceous Cretaceous period | from million to million years ago, end of the age of reptiles, appearance of modern insects and flowering plants |
Jurassic Jurassic period | frommillion to million years ago, dinosaurs, conifers |
Triassic Triassic period | frommillion tomillion years ago, dinosaurs, marine reptiles, volcanic activity |
Permian Permian period | frommillion tomillion years ago, reptiles |
Carboniferous Carboniferous period | from million tomillion years ago |
Pennsylvanian Pennsylvanian period Upper Carboniferous Upper Carboniferous period | frommillion tomillion years ago, warm climate, swampy land |
Mississippian Missippian period Lower Carboniferous Lower Carboniferous period | from million tomillion years ago, increase of land areas, primitive ammonites, winged insects |
Devonian Devonian period Age of Fishes | frommillion to million years ago, preponderance of fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites |
Silurian Silurian period | from million tomillion years ago, first air-breathing animals |
Ordovician Ordovician period | from million to million years ago, conodonts and ostracods and algae and seaweeds |
Cambrian Cambrian period | from million to about million years ago, marine invertebrates |
Precambrian Precambrian eon Precambrian aeon Precambrian period | the eon following the Hadean time and preceding the Phanerozoic eon, from about , million years ago until million years ago |
period | the end or completion of something, death put a period to his endeavors, a change soon put a period to my tranquility |
neonatal period | the first days of life |
latency stage latency phase latency period | (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age or until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities |