expelling vs period

period vs expelling

expelling and period both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expelling	Yes	No	No	No
period	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, period is a hyponym of expelling; that is, period is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than expelling:

expelling: any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
period: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

Other hyponyms of expelling include ejaculation, elimination, evacuation, excreting, excretion, voiding, catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum.

expelling (noun)	period (noun)
any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
	the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
	an amount of time
	the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
	a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
	the end or completion of something
	(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

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