(a.) Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
(a.) Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.
(a.) Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets.
(n.) A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
(n.) Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.
(n.) A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(2) The form of the harvested crop, varietal characteristics and annual growing conditions have less bearing.
(3) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
(4) In addition, recent increase of the annual incidence of the above both groups was clarified.
(5) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(6) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
(7) Murder-suicide occurs with an annual incidence of 0.2 to 0.3 per 100,000 person-years and accounts for approximately 1000 to 1500 deaths yearly in the United States.
(8) The company said it was on track to meet forecasts for annual profit of about £110m.
(9) The results of the examination of the tuberculosis cases detected during 7 years among the annually screened population are given.
(10) The annual cost of treatment is $200,000 (£130,000), and patients may live for tens of years.
(11) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(12) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
(13) However, shortly before this date, she says she was informed she would not receive the annual uprating.
(14) This comprised of 19.0 percent of the average annual bacillary pulmonary cases.
(15) Use of blood and blood products increased annually as did the number of patients crossmatched and transfused.
(16) During the 1985 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Honolulu, neurosurgical training and practice in India, Korea, Japan, and Australasia were discussed at the International Committee symposium.
(17) Compared to the benefits, the annual risk of developing a side effect of the medication is much higher.
(18) The thinktank Open Europe estimates that the UK would pay 94% of its current costs (£31.4bn annually) if it left the EU but adopted a Norway-type arrangement.
(19) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
(20) The long-term annual incidence of ipsilateral cerebral infarction was 0.67 percent in patients operated upon and 2.70 percent in patients unoperated upon.
Okra
Definition:
(n.) An annual plant (Abelmoschus, / Hibiscus, esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quantitatively, the most essential nutrients for Okra B were arginine and phenylalanine.
(2) Purification of progenitor toxin of Clostridium botulinum type B strain Okra was undertaken by sequential steps of acid precipitation, extraction, ammonium sulfate precipitation, ribonuclease digestion, acid precipitation, protamine treatment, sulphopropyl-Sephadex chromatography, and Sephadex G-200 gel filtration.
(3) Water extract of shiitake, okra, coffee, black tea and fukinoto have only weak activities of thermostable thiamine-inactivating factors as a large percentage of thiamine disulfide is formed from thiamine even at pH 7.0.
(4) The present experimental evidence supports our suggestions from previous surveys that the proteolytic enzyme of okra may be responsible for development of skin lesions, and that allergic contact dermatitis may also play a part in addition to irritant contact dermatitis.
(5) Proteolytic activity was detected on the surface of immature okra pods and seemed to be sufficient to cause the skin lesions.
(6) These two sequences matched exactly with those of the light and heavy chains of type B NT (strain Okra) of which only 16 and 18 residues were known (J. Biol.
(7) Serves 4 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 tsp crushed garlic 4 tomatoes, quartered 1 tsp gia vi (or a mix of 2 parts sugar, 1 part black pepper, 1 part salt and 1 part garlic powder) 1.5 litres water 3 rhubarb stalks, cut into 3cm chunks 2 tbsp fish sauce 50g okra, halved, deseeded and cut into 1cm rounds ½ pineapple, cut into 2cm chunks 1 tsp sugar 1 spring onion, chopped 1 tbsp chopped coriander 1 In a saucepan, heat the oil and stir in the garlic, cooking until fragrant.
(8) Okra, with a moderate oxalate content (264 mg. per load) had a negligible bioavailable oxalate (0.28 mg. per load).
(9) Garden-pea, chick-pea, cow-pea, soybean, peanut, green gram, French bean, lentil, okra and cottonseed converted all of the 7 B. dermatitidis test strains after 5 days of incubation at 37 degrees C. Although the efficacy of many of these seed media was found to be at par with pharmamedia agar - a commercial cottonseed embryo-derived protein, garden-pea seed agar is adopted because of the wider availability and low fat content of this seed.
(10) By questionnaire survey, 32 out of 52 workers (61.5%) reported previous or current skin diseases from okra cultivation.
(11) The fraction purified by preparative paper chromatography from an ethyl acetate extract of okra pods showed moderate allergenicity in the guinea pig maximization test.
(12) Spraying shoot system of okra and lupins plants with insecticide endrin caused changes in plant metabolism.
(13) Meanwhile, our French-speaking cousins in Cote D'Ivoire, Senegal and Mali would see the use of okra or nuts as heresy.
(14) (FYI: Alexa had deep-fried okra at her London book launch.
(15) Glucose or other carbohydrates were not essential for Okra B, although they did stimulate growth.
(16) For Abdel Aziz, a 45-year-old farmer, Ethiopia's plans mean that his extended family of 28, which supports itself on a 10th-of-a-hectare plot of corn, okra and eggplant fields, may go hungry.
(17) Rhubarb and okra sweet and sour soup Sweet and sour is a classic pairing in Vietnam and more widely in Asia.
(18) There are potent green and red chillies, onions, okra, tiny limes, chunks of meat shimmering with flies, Kenyan cigarettes, squares of banana bubble gum, small dried fish and nails and bits of scrap metal for use in homes or whatever other ingenious and thrifty schemes the camp dwellers can dream up.
(19) But his recently-opened Tratto (in the Town and Country mall; pasta from $19, mains from $32) is a far more mature Bianco: no queues, no pizzas, just the most magnificent cooking in chic, chalky-palette surroundings: Italian accented, mostly south-western ingredients; so a lacy, chickpea pancake farinata might come stuffed with okra; casoncelli pasta could contain caramelly kabocha squash.
(20) Spent £7,000 in a five-month period in 2005-06 furnishing his designated second home in north Kensington, a third of which was spent at Okra, an interior design company founded by David Cameron's mother-in-law.