What's the difference between period and zeitgeisty?
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).
Zeitgeisty
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The very thought is enough to get older Tory MPs spluttering into their gin this weekend – but it's probably a factor and a very zeitgeisty one.
(2) A zeitgeisty mirror reflecting socio-economic woes?
(3) Donald’s not coming back from that elegant, zeitgeisty takedown.” And yet he kept on coming, the malevolent zombie.
(4) In the meantime, here's the zeitgeisty way that United announced the news: Manchester United (@ManUtd) BREAKING: Manchester United announces that David Moyes has left the club.
(5) Carrie ended up being quite a zeitgeisty novel: published in the same rough timeframe as Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist , and when cinemas were showing Don't Look Now and The Wicker Man .
(6) Blank but loaded, their shiny, flat surfaces caught the eye of contemporary art tastemakers, including an impressed Charles Saatchi, who descended on Freeze with his magpie eye for the new and the zeitgeisty and bought all of them.
(7) Also, after the zeitgeisty opening about the blue-collar disco tribe, [Tribal Rites] is all narrative, and that much narrative detail tends to read as real.
(8) And while the media continues to ask female celebrities of all ages if they identify as feminists as some sort of zeitgeisty litmus test, young people like Blanchard are using their fame to push the conversation forward rather than let someone else control the narrative.
(9) Privacy, it seems, is moving from being a basic human right to a zeitgeisty marketing slogan.
(10) They seem more anti-establishment, more democratic, zeitgeisty and – with their messy, colloquial format – somehow more honest than traditional media.
(11) He appears to have an innate feel for entertainment that is cult yet mass-market, accessible but not dumb, polished and high-tech yet character-driven, zeitgeisty but infused with good old-fashioned storytelling.
(12) ( The Trip is, among other things, a wonderful satire on foodism, and the zeitgeisty truth that eating expensive food is now what middle-aged men do together: indeed, two men of my acquaintance went on a The Trip trip, eating in some of the same restaurants, and learned from one arch waiter that they were far from alone in their pilgrimage.)
(13) His zeitgeisty shows have presided over such a sea change in media literacy that even now there will be 12-year-olds claiming his paternity drama is a plot device designed to boost ratings of one or more of his entertainment properties.
(14) Watching them blithely wander, like innocent little babes, into the dark forest of zeitgeisty nutritional neuroses cooked up by the media and their fellow celebrities is just too fascinating to get hung up on why exactly they set off on this journey in the first place.
(15) That’s the tent which looked current and zeitgeisty during the jubilee but now gives the impression that the producers can’t accept 2012 is over.