different between annual vs daily

English

Etymology

First attested around 1382, borrowed from Late Latin annu?lem, annu?lis, related to Latin ann?lis, adjective form of annus (“year”). Used to categorize plants since 1710.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æn.ju.?l/, /?æn.j?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æn.ju.?l/

Adjective

annual (not comparable)

1. Happening once every year.

2. 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.

3. (botany, of a plant) 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.
4. (entomology) Living or lasting just one season or year, as certain insects or insect colonies.

Synonyms

• (in senses 1 and 2): yearly

Derived terms

Related terms

• biennial
• perennial

Translations

See also

• per annum

Noun

annual (plural annuals)

1. 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.

2. (botany) 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.

3. A medical checkup taking place once a year.
   • 1976, Better Homes and Gardens (volume 54, issues 7-12, page 250)

     Some routine annuals take a half hour and cost about $30.

4. (theater) A pantomime taking place once a year.
   • 1919, Lionel Carson, The Stage Year Book (page 67)

     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 […]

   • 1949, Albert Edward Wilson, The Story of Pantomime (page 61)

     From 1852 until 1888 he was the author of every Drury Lane pantomime, or "Annuals" as in his old fashioned way he preferred to […]

Translations

Scots

Alternative forms

• annuall, annwall, annowell, annuail

Pronunciation

• (Hawick dialect) IPA^(key): /??nw?ull/

Noun

annual (not comparable)

1. annual.

English

Alternative forms

• dayly (archaic)

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?li, IPA^(key): /?de?li/
• Rhymes: -e?li

Etymology 1

From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæ?l??, from Proto-Germanic *dagal?kaz (“daily”), equivalent to day +? -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).

Adjective

daily (not comparable)

1. That occurs every day, or at least every working day
   • 1831, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John Bunyan

     Bunyan has told us […] that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
2. diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly

Synonyms

• journal (obsolete)
• quotidian

Derived terms

• daily bread
• daily double

Translations

Noun

daily (plural dailies)

1. Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.
   1. A newspaper that is published every day.
   2. (Britain) A cleaner who comes in daily.
   3. (Britain, slang) A daily disposable.
   4. (video games) A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.
   5. (US, automotive, colloquial) A daily driver.

Synonyms

• (cleaner who comes daily): daily help, daily maid (woman only)
• (newspaper published every day): daily paper

Translations

Verb

daily

1. (US, automotive, colloquial) To drive an automobile frequently, on a daily basis, for regular and mundane tasks.

Etymology 2

From Middle English dayly, from Old English *dæ?l??e (found only as dæ?hw?ml??e), equivalent to day +? -ly.

Adverb

daily (not comparable)

1. quotidianly, every day
2. diurnally, by daylight

Translations

See also

• annual
• everyday
• hebdomadal
• monthly
• nightly
• quotidian
• weekly
• yearly

Anagrams

• Lydia, lydia, ylaid