Year 音標拼音: [j'ɪr]
n . 年,載,歲,學年,年度
年,載,歲,學年,年度
year 人年
MY
year 年; 年度
YR year 年
year n 1 :
a period of time containing 365 (
or 366 )
days ; "
she is 4 years old "; "
in the year 1920 " [
synonym : {
year }, {
twelvemonth },
{
yr }]
2 :
a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity ; "
a school year "
3 :
the period of time that it takes for a planet (
as ,
e .
g .,
Earth or Mars )
to make a complete revolution around the sun ;
"
a Martian year takes 687 of our days "
4 :
a body of students who graduate together ; "
the class of '
97 ";
"
she was in my year at Hoehandle High " [
synonym : {
class }, {
year }]
Sidereal \
Si *
de "
re *
al \,
a . [
L .
sidereus ,
from sidus ,
sideris ,
a constellation ,
a star .
Cf . {
Sideral }, {
Consider }, {
Desire }.]
1 .
Relating to the stars ;
starry ;
astral ;
as ,
sidereal astronomy .
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2 . (
Astron .)
Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars ;
designated ,
marked out ,
or accompanied ,
by a return to the same position in respect to the stars ;
as ,
the sidereal revolution of a planet ;
a sidereal day .
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{
Sidereal clock }, {
day }, {
month }, {
year }.
See under {
Clock },
{
Day },
etc .
{
Sideral time },
time as reckoned by sideral days ,
or ,
taking the sidereal day as the unit ,
the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox ,
reckoned in parts of a sidereal day .
This is ,
strictly ,
apparent sidereal time ,
mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit ,
not of the true ,
but of the mean ,
equinoctial point .
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Year \
Year \,
n . [
OE .
yer ,
yeer , [
yogh ]
er ,
AS .
ge ['
a ]
r ;
akin to OFries .
i ?
r ,
g ?
r ,
D .
jaar ,
OHG .
j [=
a ]
r ,
G .
jahr ,
Icel . [=
a ]
r ,
Dan .
aar ,
Sw . [*
a ]
r ,
Goth .
j ?
r ,
Gr . ?
a season of the year ,
springtime ,
a part of the day ,
an hour , ?
a year ,
Zend y [=
a ]
re year . [
root ]
4 ,
279 .
Cf . {
Hour }, {
Yore }.]
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1 .
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 }).
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Of twenty year of age he was ,
I guess . --
Chaucer .
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Note :
The civil ,
or legal ,
year ,
in England ,
formerly commenced on the 25th of March .
This practice continued throughout the British dominions till the year 1752 .
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2 .
The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun ;
as ,
the year of Jupiter or of Saturn .
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3 .
pl .
Age ,
or old age ;
as ,
a man in years . --
Shak .
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{
Anomalistic year },
the time of the earth '
s revolution from perihelion to perihelion again ,
which is 365 days ,
6 hours ,
13 minutes ,
and 48 seconds .
{
A year '
s mind } (
Eccl .),
a commemoration of a deceased person ,
as by a Mass ,
a year after his death .
Cf . {
A month '
s mind },
under {
Month }.
{
Bissextile year }.
See {
Bissextile }.
{
Canicular year }.
See under {
Canicular }.
{
Civil year },
the year adopted by any nation for the computation of time .
{
Common lunar year },
the period of 12 lunar months ,
or 354 days .
{
Common year },
each year of 365 days ,
as distinguished from leap year .
{
Embolismic year },
or {
Intercalary lunar year },
the period of 13 lunar months ,
or 384 days .
{
Fiscal year } (
Com .),
the year by which accounts are reckoned ,
or the year between one annual time of settlement ,
or balancing of accounts ,
and another .
{
Great year }.
See {
Platonic year },
under {
Platonic }.
{
Gregorian year }, {
Julian year }.
See under {
Gregorian },
and {
Julian }.
{
Leap year }.
See {
Leap year },
in the Vocabulary .
{
Lunar astronomical year },
the period of 12 lunar synodical months ,
or 354 days ,
8 hours ,
48 minutes ,
36 seconds .
{
Lunisolar year }.
See under {
Lunisolar }.
{
Periodical year }.
See {
Anomalistic year },
above .
{
Platonic year }, {
Sabbatical year }.
See under {
Platonic },
and {
Sabbatical }.
{
Sidereal year },
the time in which the sun ,
departing from any fixed star ,
returns to the same .
This is 365 days ,
6 hours ,
9 minutes ,
and 9 .
3 seconds .
{
Tropical year }.
See under {
Tropical }.
{
Year and a day } (
O .
Eng .
Law ),
a time to be allowed for an act or an event ,
in order that an entire year might be secured beyond all question . --
Abbott .
{
Year of grace },
any year of the Christian era ;
Anno Domini ;
A .
D .
or a .
d .
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year 2000 bug 44 Moby Thesaurus words for "
year ":
abundant year ,
academic year ,
annum ,
bissextile year ,
calendar month ,
calendar year ,
century ,
common year ,
day ,
decade ,
decennary ,
decennium ,
defective year ,
fiscal year ,
fortnight ,
hour ,
leap year ,
lunar month ,
lunar year ,
lunation ,
luster ,
lustrum ,
man -
hour ,
microsecond ,
millennium ,
millisecond ,
minute ,
moment ,
month ,
moon ,
quarter ,
quinquennium ,
regular year ,
second ,
semester ,
session ,
sidereal year ,
solar year ,
sun ,
term ,
trimester ,
twelvemonth ,
week ,
weekday Year Heb .
shanah ,
meaning "
repetition "
or "
revolution " (
Gen .
1 :
14 ;
5 :
3 ).
Among the ancient Egyptians the year consisted of twelve months of thirty days each ,
with five days added to make it a complete revolution of the earth round the sun .
The Jews reckoned the year in two ways , (
1 )
according to a sacred calendar ,
in which the year began about the time of the vernal equinox ,
with the month Abib ;
and (
2 )
according to a civil calendar ,
in which the year began about the time of the autumnal equinox ,
with the month Nisan .
The month Tisri is now the beginning of the Jewish year .
YEAR .
The period in which the revolution of the earth round the sun ,
and the accompanying changes in the order of nature ,
are completed .
2 .
The civil year differs from the astronomical ,
the latter being composed of 365 days ,
5 hours ,
48 seconds and a fraction ,
while the former consists ,
sometimes of three hundred and sixty -
five days ,
and at others ,
in leap years ,
of three hundred and sixty -
six days .
3 .
The year is divided into half -
year which consists ,
according to Co .
Litt .
135 b ,
of 182 days ;
and quarter of a year ,
which consists of 91 days ,
Ibid .
and 2 Roll .
Ab .
521 ,
1 .
40 .
It is further divided into twelve months .
4 .
The civil year commences immediately after twelve o '
clock at night of the thirty -
first day of December ,
that is the first moment of the first day of January ,
and ends at midnight of the thirty -
first day of December ,
twelve mouths thereafter .
Vide Com .
Dig .
Ann .;
2 Bl .
Com .
by Chitty ,
140 ,
n .;
Chitt .
Pr .
Index tit .
Time alteration of the calendar (
q .
v .)
from old to new style in England , (
see Bissextile ,)
and the colonies of that country in America ,
the year in chronological reckoning was supposed to commence with the first day of January ,
although the legal year did not commence until March 25th ,
the intermediate time being doubly indicated :
thus February 15 ,
1724 ,
and so on .
This mode of reckoning was altered by the statute 24 Geo .
II .
cap .
23 ,
which gave rise to an act of assembly of Pennsylvania ,
passed March 11 ,
1752 ;
1 Sm .
Laws ,
217 ,
conforming thereto ,
and also to the repeal of the act of 1710 .
5 .
In New York it is enacted that whenever the term "
year "
or "
years "
is or shall be used in any statute ,
deed ,
verbal or written contract ,
or any public or private instrument whatever ,
the year intended shall be taken to consist of three hundred and sixty -
five days ;
half a year of a hundred and eighty -
two days ;
and a quarter of a year of ninety -
two days ;
and the day of a leap year ,
and the day immediately preceding ,
if they shall occur in any period so to be computed ,
shall be reckoned together as one day .
Rev .
Stat .
part 1 ,
c .
19 ,
t .
1 ,
Sec .
3 .
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