Yearly
['jɪəlɪ;'jɜː-] or ['jɪrli]
Definition
(a.) Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.
(a.) Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant.
(a.) Accomplished in a year; as, the yearly circuit, or revolution, of the earth.
(adv.) Annually; once a year to year; as, blessings yearly bestowed.
Typed by Justine
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Annual, ANNIVERSARY.
ad. Annually, once a year, every year, per annum.
Typist: Marcus
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Annually, year_by_year, every_year, per_annum
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Examples
- Jos's London agents had orders to pay one hundred and twenty pounds yearly to his parents at Fulham. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The figures are the number of typhoid deaths occurring yearly out of 100,000 inhabitants. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- So Galileo did, and as a result the senate elected him to the Professorship at Padua for life, with a salary of one thousand florins yearly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You are happy at Portsmouth, I hope, but this must not be a yearly visit. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The Kalmucks to-day, like the swallows, go yearly a thousand miles from one home to another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It would have all ended in a regular standing flirtation, in yearly meetings at Sotherton and Everingham. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The result has been the saving of vast amounts of maritime property, estimated at many millions of dollars yearly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In this country, it is calculated that eight tons of phosphorus are yearly used in making matches, the number of which is stated to be 40,000,000 a day. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- That you will be thrown to the wild calots [dogs] in the great arena as soon as the hordes have assembled for the yearly games. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It is certainly an unpleasant thing, replied Mr. Dashwood, to have those kind of yearly drains on one's income. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It is estimated that more than 180,000 machines of the self-binding type are now produced yearly, the manufacturers in Chicago alone turning out more than three-fourths of this number. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1905 the Carnegie Institute granted him $10,000 yearly for ten years to continue his work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The use of gloves in the picking is thought to save the growers approximately $1,000,000 yearly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This was done, and thus, with the telephone money, I received $12,000 yearly for that period from the Western Union Telegraph Company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Tons of chemicals and hundreds of pine trees are used yearly in the making of matches, and many hundreds of millions of them are daily consumed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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