Seasonal vs Yearlong - What's the difference?
seasonal | yearlong |
Of, related to or reliant on a season or period of the year, especially with regard to weather characteristics.
:It is a seasonal swimming pool.
Anything that is seasonal, such as a financial trend, a product for sale, or an employee.
Lasting one year, or approximately so; of or relating to a timespan of one year.
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Which lasts throughout every year; which is not seasonal
* 1957 , United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs:
* 2002 , Barbara Taylor and P. David Pearson, Teaching reading: effective schools, accomplished teachers , page 37:
Per year (mostly used to discuss animal farming)
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Throughout every year; not seasonally
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As adjectives the difference between seasonal and yearlong
is that seasonal is of, related to or reliant on a season or period of the year, especially with regard to weather characteristics while yearlong is lasting one year, or approximately so; of or relating to a timespan of one year.As a noun seasonal
is anything that is seasonal, such as a financial trend, a product for sale, or an employee.As an adverb yearlong is
per year (mostly used to discuss animal farming).seasonal
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Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* unseasonalDerived terms
* seasonal affective disorderNoun
(en noun)yearlong
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Alternative forms
* year-longAdjective
(-)- Yearlong manning is needed, although at a somewhat reduced level from the peak periods in the fall.
- During interviews, teachers and/or principals in three of the four most effective schools cited a yearlong staff development effort.
