monthly

«monthly» in Mova's school dictionary: Happening, done or paid once every month — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (monthly); adverb (monthly); noun (a monthly, monthlies)

meaning for a pupil

1) Happening, done or paid once every month. tree →

2) Measured over one month (monthly rainfall). tree →

3) (noun) A magazine that comes out once a month. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths problems: monthly payments, monthly pocket money; to get a yearly total, multiply by 12. In science: monthly rainfall charts. In everyday life: monthly bills, a monthly magazine. Phrases: monthly payment, monthly meeting, paid monthly.

examples

• I get my pocket money monthly. tree →
• The club has a monthly meeting. tree →
• Look at the monthly rainfall in the bar chart. tree →
• We pay for the gym monthly. tree →
• Mum reads a monthly cooking magazine. tree →
• If the monthly cost is 15 dollars, the cost for a year is 15 × 12 = 180 dollars. tree →
• In the window stood a bush bearing monthly roses. tree →

note

Same form as adjective and adverb: "a monthly bill" and "paid monthly". For numbers: a year has 12 months, so yearly = monthly × 12; a month is about 4 weeks, but not exactly (most months are a little more than 4 weeks).

In the corpora

• A mortgage is a very big bank loan to buy a house, paid back monthly for 25 years or more with interest.
• "That time of the month" means a woman's monthly period.
• Small monthly subscriptions add up to big amounts over a year, so it is worth checking and cancelling unused ones.
• Payday is the day pay arrives; many families paid monthly have to make money last until the next payday.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «monthly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.