Word Finder - annual

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An annual publication; a book, periodical, journal, report, comic book, yearbook, etc., which is published serially once a year, which may or may not be in addition to regular weekly or monthly publication.

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I read the magazine, but I usually don't purchase the annuals.

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An annual plant; a plant with a life span of just one growing season; a plant which naturally germinates, flowers and dies in one year. Compare biennial, perennial.

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I can't wait to plant my annuals in the spring.

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A medical checkup taking place once a year.

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A pantomime taking place once a year.

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Happening once every year.

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an annual general meeting;  an annual publication

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Of, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle; determined or reckoned by the year; accumulating in the course of a year; performed, executed, or completed over the course of a year. See also circannual.

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an annual salary;  average annual profits;  the annual course of the sun

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(of a plant) Having a life cycle that is completed in only one growing season; e.g. beans, corn, marigold. See Annual plant in Wikipedia. Compare biennial, perennial.

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Living or lasting just one season or year, as certain insects or insect colonies.

I miss their annual calendar.

At most, it tolerates one annual loon.

In 1882-1884 three successive annual exhibits of a National Mining and Industrial Exposition were held.

Now he wants a picture "of darling Helen and her illustrious teacher, to grace the pages of the forthcoming annual report."

In New York State, where the population is largely industrial, the annual deaths per million are only three, but of the agricultural population eleven.

The rest pay an annual tax for this outside garment of all, become indispensable summer and winter, which would buy a village of Indian wigwams, but now helps to keep them poor as long as they live.

The Ouray Rescue Squad held an annual fund raising breakfast each Fourth of July, enabling the Deans to share an early meal of eggs, sausage, and fixings in the company of friends and neighbors.

The story described an annual one-week bike tour of the Colorado Rockies and the address for information was circled and underlined.

In another annual called the Gem appeared the poem on the story of "Eugene Aram," which first manifested the full extent of that poetical vigour which seemed to advance just in proportion as his physical health declined.

In 1904 official estimates, based on immigration and emigration returns and upon registered births and deaths, both of which are admittedly defective, showed a population increased to 5,410,028, and a small diminution in the rate of annual increase from 1895 to 1904 as compared with 18.69-1895.

The population that year was estimated to be 4,794,149, from which it is seen that the annual costs of government were no less than £3,16s.

There is a large weekly market for grain, and annual horse and cattle fairs.

Annual Average of Production in Men employed.

The number of students attending lectures is about 2500 and the annual income a little over £ioo,000.

There Seems A Fairly Well Marked Annual Variation In Ionic Contents, As The Following Figures Will Show.

The city has also a large trade in cotton, the annual receipts averaging about ioo,000 bales.

At the annual provincial synod, held by consent of the states, two ministers and one 3 Ibid.

The rainfall of New South Wales ranges from an annual average of 64 in.

A vast variety of trinketsin coral, glass, lava, &c.is exported from Italy, or carried away by the annual host of tourists.

From 1885-1886 onwards, outlay on public works, military and colonial expenditure, and especially the commercial and financial crises, contributed to produce annual deficits; but owing to drastic reforms introduced in 1894-1895 and to careful management the year 1898-1899 marked a return of surpluses (nearly 1,306,400).

A tax of 10% is levied on the annual net produce of all gold workings (proclamation of 1902) and the government takes 60% of the profits on diamond mines.

The chief local industry is farming, and an annual fair is held in September for the sale of live stock.

An annual festival, with a procession of children, which is still held, is referred to an apocryphal siege of the town by the Hussites in 1432, but is probably connected with an incident in the brothers' war (1447-51), between the elector Frederick II.

Mr. Jones has now won four consecutive championships in our annual county tractor races.

The agency by which these principles were introduced was the edicts of the praetor, an annual proclamation setting forth the manner in which the magistrate intended to administer the law during his year of office.

Later charters were given by Henry II., by John in 1204 (who also granted an annual fair of three days' duration, 29th of October, at the feast of St Modwen, and a weekly market on Thursday), by Henry III.

A large annual horse and cattle fair is held.

At Ghardaia, in south-eastern Algeria, the mean annual rainfall, from 1887 to I892, was about 43/4 in.

Altogether raw silk and silk yarn to an annual value exceeding 1-1 millions sterling are exported from Russia.

Some modifications were later made in the contract, owing to the government's failure to meet the annual subsidies and the corporation's failure to extend the railways agreed upon.

I look forward to our annual block party every summer. It really helps to engender a sense of pride and community in our neighborhood.

This wouldn't be like their annual snowbirds who simply wanted to escape the cold winters up north, though.

In 1251 William de Ferrers obtained from the crown a charter for a weekly market and a yearly fair, but gradually this annual fair was replaced by four others chiefly for horses and cattle.

In the period from 1855 to 1868 the number of messages carried annually by all the telegraph companies of the United Kingdom increased from 1,017,529 to 5,781,989, or an average annual increase of 16.36 per cent.

The original method of charging adopted in Great Britain took the telephone instrument as the unit, charging a fixed annual rental independent of the amount of use to which the instrument was put.

Excepting the in creases of deficit in 1868 and 1870, the annual deficits tended thence forward to decrease, until in 1875 equilibrium between expendituri and revenue was attained, and was maintained until 1881.

In many annual plants no cambium is formed at all, and the same is true of most perennial Pteridophytes and Monocotyledons.

The annual losses due to epidemic plant diseases attain proportions not easily estimated.

The mean annual rainfall during nine years (1899-1907) was nearly 92 in., about one-eighth of it being represented by snow.

In 1465 a second annual fair on the 1st of May was granted by Edward IV., which is still held on the Wednesday in Whitsun week.

The average annual birth-rate is about 35 per 1000, and the death-rate about 15.5 About 26% of the births are illegitimate.

Her festival at Rome, the Floralia, instituted 2 3 8 B.C. by order of the Sibylline books and at first held irregularly, became annual after 173.

As a producer of iron Russia nevertheless runs France neck and neck for the fourth place amongst the iron-producing countries of the world, her annual output having increased from 1,004,800 metric tons in 1891 to 2,808,000 in 1901 and to 2,900,000 in 1904.

Introduced by Andrew Kippis, he began to write in 1785 for the Annual Register and other periodicals, producing also three novels now forgotten.

The "Sketches of English History" written for the Annual Register from 1785 onward still deserve study.

If sunlight and twilight were the sole cause of the apparent annual variation, the frequency would have a simple period, with a maximum at midwinter and a minimum at midsummer.

Whether there is any real difference between high and mean latitudes in the annual frequency of the causes rendered visible by aurora, it is difficult to say.

With a view to more minute examination, the annual frequency can be expressed in Fourier series, whose terms represent waves, whose periods are 12, 6, 4, 3, &c. months.

Speaking generally, the annual term diminishes in importance as we travel south.

At length Ferdinand agreed to pay Suleiman an annual tribute for the small portion - about 12,228 sq.