Annual
['ænjʊəl] or ['ænjuəl]
Definition
(noun.) a reference book that is published regularly once every year.
(noun.) (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year.
(adj.) completing its life cycle within a year; 'a border of annual flowering plants' .
(adj.) occurring or payable every year; 'an annual trip to Paris'; 'yearly medical examinations'; 'annual (or yearly) income' .
Typed by Damian--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
(a.) Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.
(a.) Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets.
(n.) A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
(n.) Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.
(n.) A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
Checked by Emil
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Yearly, ANNIVERSARY.
Editor: Xenia
Definition
adj. yearly: coming every year: requiring to be renewed every year: performed in a year.—n. a plant that lives out one year: a book published yearly esp. applied to the sumptuous books usually illustrated with good engravings much in demand in the first half of the 19th century for Christmas New Year and birthday presents.—adv. An′nually.
Checker: Micawber
Examples
- Both should be forbidden, in my judgment; I would take the annual produce and no more. Plato. The Republic.
- Its agriculture, manufactures, and trade, on the contrary, the annual produce of its land and labour, have evidently been augmented. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The 8000 or so motion-picture theatres of the country employ no fewer than 40,000 people, whose aggregate annual income amounts to not less than $37,000,000. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Pasteur's attention was next directed to the wine industry, which then had an annual value to France of 500,000,000 francs. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The annual production of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania is more than 86,000,000 tons of 2,240 pounds, valued at the mines at $198,000,000. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the revenue of all the inhabitants of the country is necessarily in proportion to the value of the annual produce of their land and labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But the money which, by this annual diminution of produce, is annually thrown out of domestic circulation, will not be allowed to lie idle. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The quantity of money, on the contrary, must in every country naturally increase as the value of the annual produce increases. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- BOUNDERBY being a bachelor, an elderly lady presided over his establishment, in consideration of a certain annual stipend. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The productions of the General Electric Company alone average annual sales of nearly $75,000,000, but they do not comprise the total of the country's manufactures in these lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He recommended this uniformly, or at least frequently, in his annual reports to the Secretary of War, but never got any hearing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The same quantity of money, besides, can not long remain in any country in which the value of the annual produce diminishes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Beaufort house was one that New Yorkers were proud to show to foreigners, especially on the night of the annual ball. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They, in return, usually paid to their protector a sort of annual poll-tax. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I may mention at once that this became an annual custom. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Checker: Lucille