'annual' definitions:
Definition of 'annual'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Completing its life cycle within a year; "a border of annual flowering plants" [syn: annual, one-year] [ant: biennial, perennial, two-year]
adjective
Occurring or payable every year; "an annual trip to Paris"; "yearly medical examinations"; "annual (or yearly) income" [syn: annual, yearly]
noun
(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year
noun
Definition of 'annual'
From: GCIDE
- Tax \Tax\, n. [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Task, Taste.]
- 1. A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government. [1913 Webster]
- A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] (b) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
- Note: Taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or indirect, etc. [1913 Webster] (c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Charge; censure. [Obs.] --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment; exaction; custom; demand. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'annual'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- account,
- account book,
- account rendered,
- accounting,
- acta,
- address book,
- adversaria,
- album,
- amphibian,
- angiosperm,
- appointment calendar,
- appointment schedule,
- aquatic plant,
- biannual,
- biennial,
- bimonthly,
- biweekly,
- blankbook,
- blotter,
- brief,
- bulletin,
- calendar,
- cashbook,
- catalog,
- catamenial,
- census report,
- centenary,
- centennial,
- classified catalog,
- commonplace book,
- cosmopolite,
- court calendar,
- cutting,
- daily,
- daybook,
- decennial,
- deciduous plant,
- desk calendar,
- diary,
- dicot,
- dicotyledon,
- diptych,
- diurnal,
- docket,
- Domesday Book,
- election returns,
- engagement book,
- ephemeral,
- ephemeris,
- evergreen,
- exotic,
- flowering plant,
- fortnightly,
- fungus,
- gametophyte,
- gazette,
- gymnosperm,
- hebdomadal,
- hourly,
- hydrophyte,
- journal,
- ledger,
- log,
- logbook,
- loose-leaf notebook,
- magazine,
- memo book,
- memorandum book,
- memory book,
- menstrual,
- minutes,
- momentary,
- momently,
- monocot,
- monocotyl,
- monthly,
- newsmagazine,
- notebook,
- organ,
- pad,
- perennial,
- periodical,
- petty cashbook,
- pictorial,
- plant,
- pocket notebook,
- pocketbook,
- police blotter,
- polycot,
- polycotyl,
- polycotyledon,
- proceedings,
- quarterly,
- quotidian,
- report,
- returns,
- review,
- scrapbook,
- scratch pad,
- seasonal,
- secular,
- seed plant,
- seedling,
- semestral,
- semiannual,
- semimonthly,
- semiweekly,
- semiyearly,
- serial,
- slick magazine,
- spermatophyte,
- spiral notebook,
- sporophyte,
- statement,
- table,
- tablet,
- tally,
- tertian,
- thallophyte,
- the record,
- trade magazine,
- transactions,
- triennial,
- triptych,
- vascular plant,
- vegetable,
- weed,
- weekly,
- workbook,
- writing tablet,
- yearbook,
- yearly