What's the difference between year and yesteryear?

Year


Definition:

  • (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
  • (n.) The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
  • (n.) Age, or old age; as, a man in years.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
  • (2) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
  • (3) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
  • (4) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
  • (5) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
  • (6) Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year.
  • (7) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (8) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
  • (9) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
  • (10) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
  • (11) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
  • (12) The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years.
  • (13) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (14) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
  • (15) A 61-year-old man experienced four bouts of pancreatitis in 1 year.
  • (16) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (17) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
  • (18) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
  • (19) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (20) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.

Yesteryear


Definition:

  • (n.) The year last past; last year.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rapid advances in Information Technology in recent years have provided powerful computers and software that can be innovatively applied to create powerful pedagogical courseware that go beyond what precursors like the PLATO project could do on the mainframes of yesteryear.
  • (2) But, considering the high stakes involved in the gamble to permit suboptimal glucose regulation, it seems no longer rational to regard hyperglycemia as any more inevitable in the diabetic, than was "laudable pus" in the post-operative patient of yesteryear.
  • (3) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
  • (4) So this is not just politics as usual but the politics of yesteryear tarted up and paraded as the only game in town.
  • (5) There, you wallow in yesteryear’s fabulosity, cast off by someone whose spending habits you’re morally outraged by but whose taste you can’t fault.
  • (6) Photograph: Joe Whittle for the Guardian He and his friends are the peaceful modern-day equivalent of the famous Great Plains horse warriors of yesteryear.
  • (7) Cameron has brought him in to review social mobility, and he owes no fealty to Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, denizens of the enemy camp of yesteryear.
  • (8) Yet his love for the mythic Britain of yesteryear pre-dates his starring role in the Brexit drama.
  • (9) The right wing of the party have got no vision so they are going back to yesteryear,” he told Sky News.
  • (10) James May's mission to bring the toys of yesteryear back to life brought BBC2 3.5 million viewers and a 15% share of the audience last night, Tuesday 27 October.
  • (11) It also has the advantage that it retains the formality of yesteryear.
  • (12) These days, the Christmas songs piped through shops and malls are the familiar classics of yesteryear.
  • (13) And although we wouldn't be British if we didn't sometimes hark back to the golden programmes of yesteryear, the truth is that programme for programme measured appreciation for TV today is at a high; that overall television viewing is up despite the many competing claims on people's attention; and that the public have lapped up the iPlayer and other catch-up and on-demand services because they know there are programmes of real quality and value out there.
  • (14) If CLG were to be dismantled and Pickles, a man of Conservative yesteryear, along with it, who is there left to upset?
  • (15) Yesteryear (Star Trek: The Animated Series) Season 1, episode 2.
  • (16) If you put it back where it should be, in Paris, it would be a more confident statement.” While this is true, the Galliano of 2015 is a humbler creature than the preening peacock of yesteryear who took his bows at Christian Dior shows dressed like a cross between Errol Flynn and Keith Richards.
  • (17) Some British readers might know it better as the theme from Our Tune on Simon Bates’ Radio 1 show of yesteryear.
  • (18) Some of the most difficult tasks for a chairman are (1) the prioritization of his or her responsibilities and activities, (2) representing both the university and the department when their goals appear to conflict, (3) recognizing that an autocratic chairman may administer the department with less difficulty and even appear to have more respect than a democratic chairman, (4) learning to expect less accolades and appreciation from faculty than the clinical chairmen of yesteryear, and (5) resisting the commitment of valuable time to negotiations or battles that cannot be won or to activities that do not benefit the department or the university.
  • (19) Oh and some of the super-powered kinks of yesteryear – the unstoppable headers, the volleys from the corner of the box – have been ironed out, apparently.
  • (20) Perhaps the most jarring aspect of this circus is the attempt to positively colour the failed wars of today with a poorly doctored history of the conflicts of yesteryear.

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