What's the difference between calendar and period?

Calendar


Definition:

  • (n.) An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.
  • (n.) A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter.
  • (n.) An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.
  • (v. t.) To enter or write in a calendar; to register.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The growth rate corresponded to that of girls of similar calendar age, while there was progress of bone maturation.
  • (2) The two flight attendants feature in February and March in the annual Ryanair charity calendar.
  • (3) The work was published as a charity calendar the following year.
  • (4) Two time periods consisting of two calendar years each, were analyzed: 1974 to 1975 (initiation of perinatal regionalization) and 1979 to 1980 (regionalization established).
  • (5) There were 45 deaths from lung cancer among curing workers compared to 24.6 expected based on the age- and calendar period-specific rates of other rubber workers.
  • (6) Clinical education is integrated throughout the curriculum, and a calendar is developed based on the content of the learning experiences rather than the traditional university calendar.
  • (7) And one way or another, he had led his team to victory over the Packers for a third time in the past calendar year.
  • (8) Pitched as a "smart" calendar, it's easy to create appointments and events, and ties in neatly with the developer's separate Any.do to-do lists app.
  • (9) Despite the growth in the second quarter, the European commission still expects the eurozone to suffer a second full calendar year of falling output in 2013, with growth resuming in 2014.
  • (10) Prevalence of cigarette smoking at the Newark plant was estimated for birth cohorts by calendar year.
  • (11) If it’s going to be the current engine upgraded to 1,000bhp, then good – and they need to supply it at a price the team can afford to pay.” Ecclestone also indicated that Monza’s future on the F1 calendar remained in doubt.
  • (12) Exercise tolerance depends on biological and calendar age, on sex, on the state of health, and on general physical strength.
  • (13) Check out its theme-based events calendar: something will grab you.
  • (14) All premolars were extracted after 1 calendar month.
  • (15) In this article major concepts of time are reviewed and distinctions are made between physical, biological, psychological, and social time or age, which all might be classified as a variant of calendar time or calendar age, respectively.
  • (16) Indeed the midfielder, who was capped by England against Sweden last November, has started only two league games this calendar year and is likely to be told he can leave the club when he discusses his future with the manager this month.
  • (17) Sixty five valid MMPI profiles, based on tests administered during the 1986 calendar year were retroactively scored for a scale designed by Sladen and Mozdzierz (1985) which was reportedly capable of identifying individuals likely to drop out of chemical dependency treatment.
  • (18) In June of 1983, there were an exceptional number of ozone episodes (defined as occasions when ozone was greater than 82 ppb for 3 or more hours in a calendar day) in this region.
  • (19) Two 90-day victory calendars in that year resulted in 17 of 29 tactics being successfully implemented.
  • (20) Comparative data from 6 organisations that raised 87 880 hamsters in the calendar year 1971 indicated that 97-5% of total preweaning mortality was due to cannibalism.

Period


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
  • (2) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
  • (3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (4) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (5) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
  • (6) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
  • (7) The secondary leukemia that occurred in these patients could be distinguished from the secondary leukemia that occurs after treatment with alkylating agents by the following: a shorter latency period; a predominance of monocytic or myelomonocytic features; and frequent cytogenetic abnormalities involving 11q23.
  • (8) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
  • (9) During the study period four family outbreaks and seven recurrences of infection were observed.
  • (10) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
  • (11) During this period he developed autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, a rare complication of myelofibrosis.
  • (12) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
  • (13) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
  • (14) Maximal aberration yields were observed for 2,4-diaminotoluene, 2,6-diaminotoluene and cytosine beta-D-arabinofuranoside from 17 to 21 h, eugenol from 15 to 21 h, cadmium sulfate from 15 to 24 h and 2-aminobiphenyl, from 17 to 24 h. For adriamycin at 1 microM, the % aberrant cells remained elevated throughout the period from 9 to 29 h, while small increases at 0.1 microM ADR were found only at 13 and at 25 h. For most chemicals the maximal aberration yield occurred at a different time for each concentration tested.
  • (15) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
  • (16) During electrophysiologic study, the effect of propafenone on the effective refractory period of the accessory pathway was determined, as well as its effect during orthodromic atrioventricular (AV) reentrant tachycardia and atrial fibrillation.
  • (17) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
  • (18) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
  • (19) Anthropometric and nutritional (serum albumin and transferrin) values were normal in both groups both at the beginning and at the end of the treatment period.
  • (20) Analysis of conjugated discharges ACHs showed that they appeared predominantly periodically (87% of cases).