maute

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: An animal that is between one and two years old; one that is in its second year (but not yet two full years old).

Example: a yearling lamb

Definition: A racehorse that is considered to be one year old until a subsequent January 1st.

Definition: A sophomore at West Point military academy.

Phonetic: "/kæf/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A young cow or bull.

Definition: Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.

Definition: A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals).

Definition: A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.

Definition: A small island, near a larger island.

Example: the Calf of Man

Definition: A cabless railroad engine.

Definition: An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

Phonetic: "/ɔv/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Expressing distance or motion.

Definition: Expressing separation.

Definition: Expressing origin.

Definition: Expressing agency.

Definition: Expressing composition, substance.

Definition: Introducing subject matter.

Definition: Having partitive effect.

Definition: Expressing possession.

Definition: Forming the "objective genitive".

Definition: Expressing qualities or characteristics.

Definition: Expressing a point in time.

Phonetic: "/ji.ə(ɹ)z/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).

Example: we moved to this town a year ago;  I quit smoking exactly one year ago

Definition: (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.

Example: Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.

Definition: A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.

Example: A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.

Definition: A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.

Example: During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus.

Definition: A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".

Definition: A level or grade in school or college.

Example: Every second-year student must select an area of specialization.

Definition: The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).

Example: Geneticists have created baker's yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years.

Phonetic: "/ji.ə(ɹ)z/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A very long time.

Example: It took years for the bus to come.

Phonetic: "/ˈɒʊld/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.

Example: A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.

Definition: (in combination) One of a specified age.

Example: when he was an eight-year-old ; a 62-year-old should

Definition: A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.

Definition: (most often plural) One's parents.

Example: I had to sneak out to meet my girlfriend and tell the olds I was going to the library.

Phonetic: "/ˈɒʊld/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.

Example: an old abandoned building;  an old friend

Definition: Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.

Example: I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.

Definition: Having existed or lived for the specified time.

Example: How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child.

Definition: (heading) Of an earlier time.

Definition: Tiresome after prolonged repetition.

Example: Your constant pestering is getting old.

Definition: Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.

Definition: A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)

Example: We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV.  My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas.

Definition: Excessive, abundant.