yearly

«yearly» in Mova's school dictionary: Happening once every year: a yearly visit — 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 (yearly); adverb (yearly)

meaning for a pupil

1) Happening once every year: a yearly visit. tree →

2) For one whole year: a yearly cost. tree →

3) (adverb) Once a year or every year. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: yearly check-ups, a yearly school trip, yearly subscriptions. In maths: yearly amounts are often turned into monthly or weekly amounts, or the other way round. Similar: annual (more formal).

examples

• We have a yearly trip to the seaside. tree →
• The dentist sees me twice a year, not yearly. tree →
• The club costs £24 yearly, which is £2 a month. tree →
• The school holds a yearly sports day. tree →
• The yearly rainfall here is very high. tree →
• Birthdays come round yearly. tree →
• Then the ship’s crew returned home, and the same thing happened yearly until many years had passed. tree →

note

Same as «annual» (more formal). Not the same as «every other year». Maths: 1 year = 12 months = 52 weeks (and a bit) = 365 days (366 in a leap year). Yearly ÷ 12 = monthly.

In the corpora

• In the UK, cars older than three years need a yearly test called the MOT.
• that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
• And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
• to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

Trees and pragmatics

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