Annual vs Monthly - What's the difference?
annual | monthly |
Happening once every year.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= 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.
(botany, of a plant) Having a life cycle that is completed in only one growing season; e.g. beans, corn, marigold. See in Wikipedia. Compare biennial, perennial.
(entomology) Living or lasting just one season or year, as certain insects or insect colonies.
An ; 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.
(botany) An ; 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.
Occurring every month.
A publication that is published once a month
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 5, Stephanie Clifford, Prominent Magazines Lose Weight, Shedding Nearly Half Their Ads, New York Times
, passage=Of the 10 monthlies with the worst declines in January, four were Condé Nast magazines: Wired, Architectural Digest, Vogue and Lucky. }}
(euphemistic) the menstrual period
As adjectives the difference between annual and monthly
is that annual is happening once every year while monthly is occurring every month.As nouns the difference between annual and monthly
is that annual is 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 while monthly is a publication that is published once a month.As an adverb monthly is
occurring every month.annual
English
Adjective
(-)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
Synonyms
* yearlyDerived terms
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* per annumNoun
(en noun)- ''I read the magazine, but I usually don't purchase the annuals .
- I can't wait to plant my annuals in the spring.
monthly
English
Adverb
(-)Noun
(monthlies)citation
