(n.) A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The file reads: “It was not possible to determine from our files whether this photographer is identical with captioned individual.” Another section lists Saltzman’s output – Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer – after an officer consulted “the 1963 edition of the International Motion Picture Almanac”.
(2) Expert panel David Kane, NCVO David is a research officer at National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), leading on the quantitative analysis of data for NCVO's work on the size and scope of civil society, and is an author of the UK Civil Society Almanac from 2008 to 2013, the State and the Voluntary Sector and the UK Voluntary Sector Almanac 2007.
(3) A year later, Seeger joined the Almanac Singers, whose repertoire expressed their identification with the struggle of labour unions; within a further 12 months he had become a card-carrying member of the American Communist party.
(4) It is more likely to be due to observance of Hinoe-Uma (Elder Fire-Horse), which comes round every sixty years by zodiac almanac.
(5) Grandpa Biff in Back to the Future II gave his younger self a vintage sports almanac, enabling him to build a corrupt empire from strategically placed bets and thereby create a parallel dystopia.
(6) The year of Hinoe-Uma occurs once in every 60 years according to the ancient Sino-Japanese almanac.
(7) And in September, comedian Lee Kern penned an open letter to ITV2 claiming they had “helped create a rapists’ almanac” by giving Dapper Laughs a TV show.
(8) Arbuthnot, a descendant of James V of Scotland and heir presumptive to a baronetcy, is described in The Almanac of British Politics as an "austere, desiccated man with a voice likened to that of a speaking clock".
(9) Full moons were defined as three-day periods in the 29.531-day lunar cycle, with the middle day being described in the world almanac as the full moon.
(10) The Almanac Singers in the early 1940, including Pete Seeger (middle) and Woody Gurthrie (first left).
(11) Another friend in California had given me a “Baja Almanac”, an almost homemade topographical ring-bound guide.
(12) The National Council for Voluntary Organisations almanac does indeed show 78% of voluntary organisations receive no public funds – but the great majority are tiny, micro groups, many semi-inactive.
(13) And you know what, if you look at an almanac you'll see how many years it was that Manchester City wasn't wining a title.
Yearbook
Definition:
(n.) A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.
(n.) A book containing annual reports of cases adjudged in the courts of England.
Example Sentences:
(1) The seed for the story came after Gale saw his father's photo in an old high school yearbook and wondered if they would have been friends had they been contemporaries.
(2) Data on divorce taken for all available years between 1947 and 1981 from the Demographic Yearbooks of the United Nations on 58 peoples illustrate that divorce has a consistent pattern.
(3) There’s Tim Howard, whose old high school yearbook photo motto , “It will take a nation of millions to hold me back”, went viral; Costa Rica’s Keylor Navas, now in talks with Bayern Munich; Mexico’s free agent Guillermo Ochoa, whose Gordon Banks moment against Brazil put him in a good bargaining position; Nigeria’s Vincent Enyeama; Germany’s Manuel Neuer; Argentina’s Sergio Romero; and potentially Van Gaal’s strutting mind-gamer Tim Krul, who revelled in his cameo chance.
(4) "I had all my yearbook high-school photographs on film.
(5) There are frequently other costs on top of the ticket price, with £10 for a professional photograph – some schools now hire full-sized photobooths for the night – and another £10 for the end-of-school yearbook.
(6) The international data come from the Demographic Yearbook and the quarterly Population and Vital Statistics Report, both published by the Statistical Office of the United Nations, which has also been kind enough to provide directly more recent data.
(7) Mohammed Emwazi: yearbook reveals boy who liked chips and S Club 7 Read more According to several of Emwazi’s associates, MI5 tried to recruit him at this time.
(8) A study published in the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) Yearbook on 24 February claims that 2014 saw record highs for outlets selling CD and vinyl products.
(9) The Demographic Yearbook of the United Nations (1978) reported that Sri Lanka has the lowest death rate from ischemic heart disease.
(10) For the analysis, data was used from the statistical yearbooks on the health protection of the population and data from individual statistical reports.
(11) On the basis of information provided by various zoos who have, or used to have, Pan paniscus in their collections, as well as information in the International Zoo Yearbook or in the literature, an approximate outline has been given of our knowledge of this animal since the description given in 1929 by Schwarz.
(12) Dr Graham Turner gathered data from the UN (its department of economic and social affairs, Unesco, the food and agriculture organisation, and the UN statistics yearbook).
(13) He founded and edited the Yearbook of Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Literature.
(14) According to the China Law Yearbook, 99.9% of China's criminal cases in 2009 ended in convictions.
(15) "If you read my high school yearbook, I was [someone] who at 16 knew exactly what I was going to do."
(16) Data were gathered from national censuses, UN demographic yearbooks, and some World Fertility Surveys and other sources.
(17) As an adolescent, she sported a blue mohican as wide as the blade on a circular saw and came top in many yearbook categories: Class Clown, Most Bizarre Girl, Most Likely To Go Bald at School.
(18) Drawing from World Fertility Survey and UN Demographic Yearbook data, this short paper considers the prevalence and composition of 1-person households in selected countries of the world, with particular attention to Latin America and the United States.
(19) There is no indication at this point that anybody else was involved.” The Chattanooga Times Free Press posted an image from the Red Bank High School yearbook, that they said multiple graduates had sent them.
(20) An analysis of cricket yearbooks showed that over the last four decades there was a relatively high proportion of professional cricketers who bowled left-handed.