annual
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Happening once every year.
- an annual general meeting; an annual publication
Of, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle
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.
- an annual salary; average annual profits; the annual course of the sun
Having a life cycle that is completed in only one growing season
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.
An annual publication
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.
- I read the magazine, but I usually don't purchase the annuals.
An annual plant
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.
- I can't wait to plant my annuals in the spring.
A medical checkup taking place once a year.
- Some routine annuals take a half hour and cost about $30.
A pantomime taking place once a year.
- Excellent work has been done by the Playgoers' Club in connection with its Christmas Pantomime Fund. Thousands of children who possibly otherwise would have little chance of witnessing one of the hardy annuals have been annually taken […]
- From 1852 until 1888 he was the author of every Drury Lane pantomime, or "Annuals" as in his old fashioned way he preferred to […]
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Derived
annual aberration, annual accounts, annual general meeting, annualise, annualize, annuality, annualization, annual leave, annually, annual meadow grass, annual mercury, annual report, annual ring, annual ryegrass, annual wormwood, biannual, bi-annual, biannually, bi-annually, circannual, first annual, ground annual, harlequin annual lupine, interannual, intraannual, multiannual, nonannual, pluriannual, pseudoannual, quadannual, semiannually, semi-annually, semiannual, semi-annual, semperannual, sesquiannual, subannual, sweet Annie, terannual, transannual · +3 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at annual. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at annual. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at annual
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA