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end vs period

period vs end

end and period both are nouns.

end is a verb but period is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
end Yes No Yes No
period Yes No No No
As nouns, period is a hyponym of end; that is, period is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than end:
  • end: the point in time at which something ends
  • period: the end or completion of something
Other hyponyms of end include death, last, death, demise, dying, year-end, close, conclusion, finale, finis, finish, last, stopping point, cease, fag end, tail, tail end, fin de siecle, last gasp, expiration, expiry, termination, limit, terminal point, terminus ad quem.
end (noun) period (noun)
the part you are expected to play a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
(American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold an amount of time
a final part or section the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
the last section of a communication the end or completion of something
the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
either extremity of something that has length
a boundary marking the extremities of something
the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
(football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
a final state
the point in time at which something ends
end (verb) period (verb)
bring to an end or halt
put an end to
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
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