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Definition: Annual |
AnnualAdjective1. Occurring or payable every year; "an annual trip to Paris"; "yearly medical examinations"; "annual (or yearly) income". 2. (botany) completing its life cycle within a year; "a border of annual flowering plants". Noun1. A plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year. 2. A reference book that is published regularly once every year. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "annual" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Avian | Referring to an organism that completes its life cycle from birth or germination to death within a year (Ricklefs 1979:865). (references) |
Biology & Biotechnology | A plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to ripe seed, within a single growth period, e. g. an annual. Source: European Union. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Serial publication, appearing in principal once a year and mostly containing updated information. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A publication appearing yearly and often treating of matters of interest in ayear just past . . . year. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word annual is derived from the Latin annuum, or year. It has several distinct meanings in English.It can refer to any event which happens yearly.
It can refer to a plant with a lifespan of a year or less. These are generally plants adapted to life as weeds or in difficult habitats where quick flowering and seeding are necessary.
It can refer to a publication, a book or a magazine, comic book or comic strip which comes out yearly. If it is not a book or a comic, it may be brought out to praise some celebrity or celebrities, or even a holiday camp (such as the Butlins annual).
List of collectable annuals:
- Beano
- Dandy
- Rupert
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Annual."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An annual is a plant that lives for less than one year.A plant's status as annual or perennial often varies based on location. For example, a perennial plant in Georgia might easily be an annual plant in Michigan. This is because climatic conditions pay a large role in determining the length of a plant's life-cycle. If a normally biennial plant is grown in extremely harsh conditions it is likely to be treated as an annual because it will not survive the winter cold. Conversely, an annual grown under extremely favourable conditions may have such a highly successful propogation rate that it give the appearance of being bi- or perennial.
Annuals are often used in gardens to provide splashes of color, as they tend to produce more flowers than perennials. Also, many food plants are annuals, including most domesticated grainss.
The life-cycle of an annual is very simple -- grow, flower, set seed and die. This can occur in a period as short as two or three months in some species. Many garden weeds are annuals.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Annual plant."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
simple:year A year is the term for any period of time that is derived from the period of the orbit of the Earth (or indeed any planet) around its Sun. In astronomy, several types of year are defined:
365.256363051 days (at the epoch J2000 = 1 Jan. 2000 12h TT).
- sidereal year: the actual period for the Earth to complete one revolution of its orbit, as measured in a fixed frame of reference (such as the fixed stars, Latin sidus). Its duration is on average:
The actual duration varies from year to year because the motion of the Earth is influenced by the gravity of the Moon and other planets.
365.24218967 days (365d 5h 48m 45s) (at the epoch J2000).
- tropical year: the period for the Earth to complete one revolution with respect to the framework provided by the intersection of the ecliptic (the plane of the orbit of the Earth) and the plane of the equator (the plane perpendicular to the rotation axis of the Earth). Because of the precession, this framework moves slowly backwards along the ecliptic with respect to the fixed stars; as a consequence, the Earth completes this year before it completes a full orbit as measured in a fixed reference frame. Therefore a tropical year is shorter than the sidereal year: its duration (averaged over all tropical ecliptic points) was:
the perihelion, where the Earth is closest to the Sun (around 2 January), and
- anomalistic year: the period for the Earth to complete one revolution with respect to its apsides. The orbit of the Earth is elliptical; the extreme points, called apsides, are:
the aphelion, where the Earth is furthest from the Sun (around 2 July).
- Because of gravitational disturbances by the other planets, the shape and orientation of the orbit are not fixed, and the apsides slowly move with respect to a fixed frame of reference. Therefore the anomalistic year is slightly longer than the sidereal year: on average:
- 365.259635864 days (at the epoch J2000).
346.620075883 days (at the epoch J2000).
- eclipse or ecliptic year: the period for the Sun (as seen from the Earth) to complete one revolution with respect to a node of the Moon's orbit (the points where the Moon's orbit intersects the ecliptic). This period is associated with eclipses: these occur only when both the Sun and the Moon are near these nodes; so eclipses occur within about a month every half eclipse year. Hence the are two eclipse seasons every eclipse year. The average duration of the eclipse year is:
411.78443029 days (at the epoch J2000).
- similar to the eclipse year, there is the period for the Sun (as seen from the Earth) to complete one revolution with respect to the perigee of the Moon's orbit. This has not received much attention in astronomical literature. This period is associated with the apparent size of the Full Moon, and also with the varying duration of the synodic month. The duration of one fumocy is:
Calendars usually try to match some tropical year, because the seasons and their cardinal points are determined by this sort of year. For practical reasons, a calendar year consists of an integer number of days. In the calendar currently in use in western societies, the Gregorian calendar, most years have 365 days. In order to keep synchronized with the March equinox tropical year (365.2424 days), almost every 4th year gets 366 days: this is called a leap year. The most important current exception is the Islamic calendar, a lunar calendar without leap years, in which holidays move through the seasons.
Julian year: 365.25 days, the average length of the year in the Julian calendar.
The Gaussian year lasts 365.2568983 days, and is derived from the Gaussian gravitational constant that is expressed in units of the solar system.
Besselian year: this is a tropical year that starts when the mean Sun reaches the ecliptic longitude of 280°. This is always on or close to the 1st day of January. It is named after the 19th-century astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Bessel. An approximate formula to compute the current time in Besselian years from the Julian day is:
B = 2000 + (JD - 2451544.53)/365.242189
The distinction from one planet to another is made through use of a preceding adjective, such as: "the Martian year."
- See also calendar year, fiscal year, leap year, solar year, time
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Year."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ANERAC | English | Annual North Eastern Regional Antipollution Conference | N/A |
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Synonyms: AnnualSynonyms: one-year (adj), yearly (adj), yearbook (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: biennial (adj), perennial (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Book | Part, issue, number livraison; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal. |
Destruction | Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume. |
Period | Adjective: horary; hourly, annual; (periodical). |
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity | Hourly; diurnal, daily; quotidian, tertian, weekly; hebdomadal, hebdomadary; biweekly, fortnightly; bimonthly; catamenial; monthly, menstrual; yearly, annual; biennial, triennial; centennial, secular; paschal, lenten; |
Vegetable | Annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Annual |
| English words defined with "annual": Annual parallax, annual ring ♦ Ground annual. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "annual": Annual Change Traffic, Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency, annual limit on intake, Annual Load Fraction, Annual Reports, Annual Solar Savings, annual value ♦ general and annual survey processing ♦ thirtieth highest annual hourly volume. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "annual": solemn. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Annual" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (annual, yearly), Romanian (anniversary, annual, annually, per annum, yearly), Spanish (annual, yearlong, yearly). |
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Screenplays | As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards (The 51st Annual Academy Awards; writing credit: Buz Kohan) Giles, unto every generation is born one who must run the annual talentless show (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I want to welcome you to the first annual and probably never ever to be held again because Sookie's on the verge of a nervous breakdown Bracebridge Dinner (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) Oh and two weeks paid vacation for all the workers in the quarry, an annual cost-of-living increase, and those little packets of ketchup in the lunch room (The Flintstones; writing credit: Tom S. Parker; Jim Jennewein) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The 26th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1974) El Desastre de Annual (1970) The 42nd Annual Academy Awards (1970) Hogan's Annual Spree (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Line graph showing annual adult per capita cigarette consumption and major smoking and health events--United States, 1900-1998. Tobacco. Credit: CDC. |  | Combined bar and line graph showing annual number and rate of suicides among U.S. Air Force personnel--United States, 1980-1999. Credit: CDC. |
 | Annual Depletion Of Antarctic Ozone Results Are In: 'Ozone Hole' Smaller Than Last Year. Credit: NASA. |  | Langley Laboratory Annual Picnic, Buckroe Beach. Credit: NASA. |
 | NACA's 9th Annual Aircraft Engineering Research Conference. Credit: NASA. |  | Searching for submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV's) in the Tred Avon River. Part of an annual Bay-wide ground-truthing effort. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Navy reservists shuttling survey crew's annual supplies ashore with "Water Buffalo" from an LST of the Barrow Expedition (BAREX). Shallow water necessitated anchoring offshore. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Photo #1.Cross-section of first spine of dorsal fin of young bluefin tuna showing annual growth rings. These rings are similar to tree growth rings. The wide (brown) areas represent summer growth during periods of high food intake. The narrow (white) bands represent periods of less fast growth during the winter when the fish's metabolism slows. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Title page of Edwards Forbes' paper concerning a dredging expedition in the Aegean Sea. Forbes set forth the concept that no life existed below 300 fathoms inspiring numerous pioneeer oceanographers to devise means to prove him wrong. In: The Annual Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for the year 1843. NOAA Central Library Journal collection. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | End page of Edward Forbes' paper in which he challenges the scientific community to seek new knowledge of the sea and lays the groundwork for government support of oceanography. In: The Annual Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for the year 1843. NOAA Central Library Journal collection. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Cracked soil" by Roland Peschetz Commentary: "Cracked mud layer, after the annual floodings in central Thailand." | "Stanwood: Stepping back 100 ye" by KATI GARNER Commentary: "Stanwood, WA celebrated its centennial during the annual Fair Parade by honoring its pioneers, caravan-style." |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Quincy Adams | Where annual elections end where slavery begins. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In every case of mandate, the Mandatory shall render to the Council an annual report in reference to the territory committed to its charge. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A young girl was pulling weeds in a field, where a large green poster, probably of a travelling show at some annual fair, fluttered in the wind |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | At most, it tolerates one annual loon |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | HPIV-2 causes annual or biennial fall outbreaks. (references) | |
Annual incidence varies considerably because of periodic outbreaks. (references) | ||
Annual booster injections of the vaccine are recommended thereafter. (references) | ||
Business | Cars must pass an annual emission check. (references) | |
Xiamen handles nearly 113,000 TEUs on an annual basis. (references) | ||
The exact number will depend on individual annual budgets. (references) | ||
Children | Pakistan | In March 2000, candidates for civil engineering degrees received results of the 1996 annual examinations. (references) |
Morocco | Also in 2000, the Government instituted an annual "National Day of the Disabled," which is aimed at increasing public awareness of issues affecting persons with disabilities. (references) | |
Nicaragua | A constitutional provision known as the 6 percent rule automatically allots 6 percent of the annual budget to a higher education consortium, often at the expense of funding for primary and secondary education programs. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Nigeria | In October President Obasanjo set the annual fee for the broadcasters at $1,300 (150,000 naira). (references) |
Hong Kong | On June 4, tens of thousands attended the annual candlelight vigil to commemorate the anniversary. (references) | |
Switzerland | In Winterthur city authorities required Scientologists to apply for an annual permit to sell their books on public streets. (references) | |
Economic History | Iceland | Annual budget deficit (1998): None. (references) |
Hong Kong | Sources: Companies' annual reports. (references) | |
Mali | Annual skilled worker's salary: $1,200. (references) | |
Human Rights | Malaysia | In April the Commission released its first annual Human Rights Report. (references) |
Mozambique | In 2000 Amnesty International visited the country in preparation for its annual report. (references) | |
Guyana | It issues periodic press releases and normally publishes an annual report on human rights. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Suriname | During an annual meeting in September, the Association of Indigenous Village Chiefs in Suriname discussed socio-economic problems, land rights, nature reserves, and biodiversity. (references) |
Minorities | Netherlands | They must submit their annual social action plans, including recruitment targets, to the regional labor bureaus. (references) |
Sweden | In January approximately 50 countries attended the second annual Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust. (references) | |
Political Economy | Argentina | By 1989 annual inflation soared to 4,923 percent. (references) |
Rwanda | Per capita annual income is $252 (11,300 Rwandan francs). (references) | |
INDONESIA | By mid-2001, inflation had reached an annual rate of 13 percent. (references) | |
Political Rights | Oman | The Sultan makes an annual 3-week tour of the country, accompanied by his ministers. (references) |
Mali | The opposition contended that the Government failed to carry out constitutionally mandated annual electoral list revisions and that, therefore, the elections should be declared invalid. (references) | |
Tunisia | For the 1999 elections, the Government provided public financing to political parties, as called for in legislation adopted in 1997. Under the legislation, each party represented in the Chamber of Deputies received an annual public subsidy of approximately $42,000 (60,000 dinars), plus an additional payment of $3,500 (5,000 dinars) per deputy. (references) | |
Trade | Korea | The system is adjusted on an annual basis. (references) |
Egypt | There is, however, a 0.75% annual service charge. (references) | |
Ukraine | The contract should also list predicted annual volumes of production, sales or services. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | In between lies the Sahelian Zone with 300 - 800 mm of annual precipitation. (references) |
Yemen | Sunny skies predominate, although the country experiences two annual rainy seasons in March-April and July-August. (references) | |
Australia | Country towns often stage annual agricultural, food and wine festivals, and ethnic groups hold their own celebrations. (references) | |
Women | Liechtenstein | Annual government financing for the shelter was approximately $150,000 (240,000 Swiss francs). (references) |
Sweden | All employers with more than 10 employees must prepare an annual equality plan, including a survey of pay differences between male and female employees. (references) | |
Palau | Since 1993 local women's groups have organized an annual women's conference that focuses on women's and children's issues, including health, education, drug abuse, prostitution, and traditional customs and values. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Swaziland | Most workers receive a minimum of 12 days annual leave. (references) |
Barbados | Employers must provide a minimum of 3 weeks annual leave. (references) | |
Zambia | The law requires 2 days of annual leave per month of service. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. INSURANCE AGENT: My dear sir, that is a fine house -- pray let me insure it. HOUSE OWNER: With pleasure. Please make the annual premium so low that by the time when, according to the tables of your actuary, it will probably be destroyed by fire I will have paid you considerably less than the face of the policy. INSURANCE AGENT: O dear, no -- we could not afford to do that. We must fix the premium so that you will have paid more. HOUSE OWNER: How, then, can I afford that? INSURANCE AGENT: Why, your house may burn down at any time. There was Smith's house, for example, which -- HOUSE OWNER: Spare me -- there were Brown's house, on the contrary, and Jones's house, and Robinson's house, which -- INSURANCE AGENT: Spare me! HOUSE OWNER: Let us understand each other. You want me to pay you money on the supposition that something will occur previously to the time set by yourself for its occurrence. In other words, you expect me to bet that my house will not last so long as you say that it will probably last. INSURANCE AGENT: But if your house burns without insurance it will be a total loss. HOUSE OWNER: Beg your pardon -- by your own actuary's tables I shall probably have saved, when it burns, all the premiums I would otherwise have paid to you -- amounting to more than the face of the policy they would have bought. But suppose it to burn, uninsured, before the time upon which your figures are based. If I could not afford that, how could you if it were insured? INSURANCE AGENT: O, we should make ourselves whole from our luckier ventures with other clients. Virtually, they pay your loss. HOUSE OWNER: And virtually, then, don't I help to pay their losses? Are not their houses as likely as mine to burn before they have paid you as much as you must pay them? The case stands this way: you expect to take more money from your clients than you pay to them, do you not? INSURANCE AGENT: Certainly; if we did not -- HOUSE OWNER: I would not trust you with my money. Very well then. If it is certain, with reference to the whole body of your clients, that they lose money on you it is probable, with reference to any one of them, that he will. It is these individual probabilities that make the aggregate certainty. INSURANCE AGENT: I will not deny it -- but look at the figures in this pamph -- HOUSE OWNER: Heaven forbid! INSURANCE AGENT: You spoke of saving the premiums which you would otherwise pay to me. Will you not be more likely to squander them? We offer you an incentive to thrift. HOUSE OWNER: The willingness of A to take care of B's money is not peculiar to insurance, but as a charitable institution you command esteem. Deign to accept its expression from a Deserving Object. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Where previously annual reports were elaborate, richly colored multi-media presentations, today many corporations simply send out a one-page mimeograph of the Fifth Amendment. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | While we think on this calamity and sympathize with the immediate sufferers, we have abundant reason to present to the Supreme Being our annual oblations of gratitude for a liberal participation in the ordinary blessings of His providence. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | With the usual annual reports from the Secretary of the Navy and the Board of Commissioners will be exhibited to the view of Congress the execution of the laws relating to that department of the public service. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | For near half a century the Chief Magistrates who have been successively chosen have made their annual communications of the state of the nation to its representatives. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | Our revenue should be ample to meet the ordinary annual demands upon our Treasury, with a sufficient margin for those extraordinary but scarcely less imperative demands which arise now and then. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The Administration continues to support annual indexing of social security benefits. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Recently, we released our annual survey of what graduating high school seniors have to say about drugs. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Gore will host their annual family conference this June on what we can do to make sure that parents are an active part of their children's learning all the way through school. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Annual report cards are required to grade the schools themselves, so parents can judge how the schools compare to others. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Annual" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "Annual" is used about 8,082 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.83% | 7,746 | 1,250 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.02% | 325 | 15,961 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.09% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 0.06% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8,082 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "annual": annual aberration ♦ annual accounts ♦ annual audit ♦ annual average weekday traffic ♦ annual balance ♦ annual budget ♦ annual capital expenditures survey ♦ annual celebration ♦ annual ceremony ♦ annual Change Traffic ♦ annual charge ♦ annual consultations ♦ annual depreciation charge ♦ Annual epact ♦ annual expenditure ♦ annual fern ♦ annual growth ring ♦ annual income ♦ annual instalment ♦ annual leave ♦ annual limit on intake ♦ annual meeting ♦ annual meeting of shareholders ♦ annual output ♦ Annual parallax ♦ annual percentage rate ♦ annual plant ♦ annual produce ♦ annual production ♦ annual rate ♦ annual rate of depreciation ♦ annual repayment ♦ annual report ♦ Annual Reports ♦ Annual Reports [Publication Type] ♦ annual ring ♦ annual salary ♦ annual sales ♦ annual subscription ♦ annual trade show ♦ Annual variation ♦ annual wage plan ♦ annual weeds ♦ annual yearly ♦ current annual forest per cent ♦ current annual forest percent ♦ general and annual survey processing ♦ Ground annual ♦ guaranteed annual wage ♦ hardy annual ♦ thirtieth highest annual hourly volume. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "annual": annual-calendar, annual-change. | |
Ending with "annual": multi-annual, tri-annual. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "annual"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | jaarliks (yearly). (various references) | |
Albanian | vjetor (anniversary, yearly), vjetar statistikor, njëvjeçar (yearlong, yearly), i përvitshëm (overreach, yearly). (various references) | |
Arabic | نبات حولي, حولى, سنوي (anniversary, yearly), عام سنويا, دفعة سنوية, دخل سنوي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | годишник (almanac, annals, catalogue, directory, yearbook), годишен (yearly), ежегоден (etesian, yearly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 每年, 周年 (anniversary). (various references) | |
Czech | roèní (yearlong, yearly). (various references) | |
Danish | årlig (yearly). (various references) | |
Dutch | therofyt (therophyte), jaarlijks (yearly), jaarlýks (yearly), jaarboek (year-book), eenjarig (yearly). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ĉiujara (yearly). (various references) | |
Farsi | یک ساله , سالیانه (Yearly). (various references) | |
Finnish | yksivuotinen kasvi, vuotuinen (yearly), vuosikirja (statistics yearbook, yearbook), terofyytti (therophyte), jokavuotinen (yearly). (various references) | |
French | annuel. (various references) | |
German | jährlich (annuall, annually, every year, per annum, yearly), Jahrbuch (almanac, yearbook), alljährlich (yearly). (various references) | |
Greek | επετηρίδα (yearbook), ετήσιοσ (yearly), ετήσιος, ετήσιο (annual percentage rate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שנתי (perennial, yearly), שנתון (yearbook), אחת לשנה, חד שנתי (hardy annual). (various references) | |
Hungarian | évkönyv (almanac, annals, yearbook, year-book), évi (etesian, to salary, yearly), egynyári növény, egy évi, évenkénti (yearly). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tahunan. (various references) | |
Italian | annuale (twelvemonthly, yearly, year's), annuario (address book, address table, almanac, directory, yearbook). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 歳歳 , 一年草 , 一年生 (first-year university or high-school student, freshman). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さいさい (frequently, often), いちねんそう, いちねんせい (first-year university or high-school student, freshman). (various references) | |
Korean | 일년. (various references) | |
Manx | lioar vleeaney (yearbook), bleintag, bleinoil (yearly), bleeanagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | årlig (yearly). (various references) | |
Papiamen | anual (yearly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | annualay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anual (yearly), anuário (catalog, catalogue, directory, yearbook). (various references) | |
Romanian | anuar (year-book), annual (anniversary, annually, per annum, yearly), publicaţie anualã, în fiecare an. (various references) | |
Russian | годовой (full-year, yearly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | jednogodišnji (age long, age-old, yearling), jednogodišnja biljka (hardy annual), godišnji (yearly), godišnjak (yearbook). (various references) | |
Spanish | anuario (list, yearbook), anualmente (annually, per annum, yearly), anual (yearly). (various references) | |
Swedish | årsbok (annals, yearbook), årlig (yearly). (various references) | |
Tagalog | táunan (yearly). (various references) | |
Thai | หนังสือประจำปี, ประจำปี, ซึ่งเกิดขึ้นปีละครั้ง. (various references) | |
Turkish | yillik (almanac, yearly), yıllık (almanac, calendar, etesian, sessional, yearbook, yearly), senelik (yearly), bir yıl yaşayan bitki. (various references) | |
Turkmen | яyllyk (anniversary). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | річник, річний (anniversary, yearlong, yearly), щорічник (almanac, annals, yearbook), щорічний (anniversary, yearly), однолітник. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | năm một (annually), hàng năm (annually). (various references) | |
Welsh | blynyddol (yearly), blwyddiadur (yearbook), blwyddiad (yearling). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | anniversarius, annuae, annuus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "annual": annualize, annualized, annualizes, annualizing, annually, annuals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "annual": biannual, interannual, semiannual. (additional references) | |
Words containing "annual": biannually, semiannually. (additional references) | |
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"Annual" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amnuai, anaal, Anau, Anaud, andal, Anhui, anial, annah, annaul, anneau, Annibal, annnual, annu, annua, annuall, annualt, annuam, annue, annui, annuil, annule, annull, annuual, Anuak, anual, anuall, anue, Anuga, Anui, Anupam, Anuwat, Faneuil, Nahuatl, Nahuel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "annual" (pronounced a"nyuwul) |
| 6 | a" n y uw u l | manual. |
| 5 | -n y uw u l | continual. |
| 4 | -y uw u l | transsexual. |
| 3 | -uw u l | ineffectual, audiovisual, biannual, bisexual, conceptual, consensual, contractual, eventual, factual, gradual, habitual, intellectual, menstrual, parimutuel, perpetual, residual, ritual, sexual, virtual. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-n-n-u" | |
-1 letter: annal, annul, lauan. | |
-2 letters: alan, anal, anna, luna, naan, nana, ulan, ulna. | |
-3 letters: aal, ala, ana, nan, nun. | |
-4 letters: aa, al, an, la, na, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-n-n-u" | |
+1 letter: annuals, annular, cannula. | |
+2 letters: annually, annulate, biannual, cannulae, cannular, cannulas, infaunal, lunarian. | |
+3 letters: annualize, lanthanum, lunarians, noncasual, noncausal, nonmanual, palanquin, unbalance, ungallant, unnatural, vulcanian. | |
+4 letters: abundantly, angulating, angulation, annualized, annualizes, annulation, antennular, antifungal, biannually, canulating, connatural, culinarian, incunabula, lanthanums, laundryman, nonaccrual, nonfactual, nonnatural, nutational, palanquins, semiannual, unamenable, unanalyzed, unavailing, unbalanced, unbalances, unnameable, unpleasant. | |
+5 letters: anacoluthon, angulations, annualizing, annulations, antenuptial, antifungals, antinatural, antinuclear, aquaplaning, culinarians, fundamental, granulating, granulation, interannual, naturalness, nongranular, nonlanguage, nonvascular, quadrennial, saturnalian, subnational, unalienable, unalienated, unappealing, unbalancing, uncanonical, undanceable, undauntable, ungallantly, uniparental, unlearnable, unnaturally. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Abbreviations | 21. Acronyms 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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