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YEARLY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A reference book that is published regularly once every year
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("yearly" is a kind of...):
book of facts; reference; reference book; reference work (a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yearly"):
almanac (an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields arranged according to the calendar of a given year)
almanac; farmer's calendar (an annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year)
ephemeris (an annual publication containing astronomical tables that give the positions of the celestial bodies throughout the year)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Occurring or payable every year
Example:
annual (or yearly) income
Synonyms:
annual; yearly
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Similar:
periodic; periodical (happening or recurring at regular intervals)
Derivation:
year (a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without missing a year
Example:
they travel to China annually
Synonyms:
annually; each year; every year; yearly
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Context examples:
During its routine yearly monitoring of the weather on our solar system's outer planets, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new mysterious dark storm on Neptune (right) and provided a fresh look at a long-lived storm circling around the north polar region on Uranus (left).
(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)
And Elizabeth, to do her justice, had, in the first ardour of female alarm, set seriously to think what could be done, and had finally proposed these two branches of economy, to cut off some unnecessary charities, and to refrain from new furnishing the drawing-room; to which expedients she afterwards added the happy thought of their taking no present down to Anne, as had been the usual yearly custom.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A living, of which Mr. Morland was himself patron and incumbent, of about four hundred pounds yearly value, was to be resigned to his son as soon as he should be old enough to take it; no trifling deduction from the family income, no niggardly assignment to one of ten children.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
In its yearly trek around the sun, asteroid 2016 HO3 spends about half of the time closer to the sun than Earth and passes ahead of our planet, and about half of the time farther away, causing it to fall behind.
(Small Asteroid Is Earth's Constant Companion, NASA)
It is true, after six months' correspondence, he effected a compromise, whereby he received a safety razor for Turtle-catching, and that The Acropolis, having agreed to give him five dollars cash and five yearly subscriptions: for The Northeast Trades, fulfilled the second part of the agreement.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I would not bind myself to allow them any thing yearly.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The melt season began with a record low yearly maximum extent in March and a rapid ice loss through May.
(Arctic Sea Ice Annual Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record, NASA)
She spoke of you with high praise and warm affection; yet, even here, there was alloy, a dash of evil; for in the midst of it she could exclaim, 'Why would not she have him? It is all her fault. Simple girl! I shall never forgive her. Had she accepted him as she ought, they might now have been on the point of marriage, and Henry would have been too happy and too busy to want any other object. He would have taken no pains to be on terms with Mrs. Rushworth again. It would have all ended in a regular standing flirtation, in yearly meetings at Sotherton and Everingham.'
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I believe you are right, my love; it will be better that there should be no annuity in the case; whatever I may give them occasionally will be of far greater assistance than a yearly allowance, because they would only enlarge their style of living if they felt sure of a larger income, and would not be sixpence the richer for it at the end of the year.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
An analysis of satellite data showed that at 1.60 million square miles (4.14 million square kilometers), the 2016 Arctic sea ice minimum extent is effectively tied with 2007 for the second lowest yearly minimum in the satellite record.
(Arctic Sea Ice Annual Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record, NASA)
