1) a length or portion of time, e.g. hours, days, months and years; a flow of blood from a woman each month; a full stop (period)
a total failure to reach agreement or to settle a quarrel
stalemate, impasse
a sharp end (of a pin, pencil etc); a marked place or position in space or time; a small dot (as if) made by the point of a pencil etc; a main piece of information, idea or thought in an argument
speck
