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age A0136900 (āj)n.1. a. The length of time that a person or thing has existed: a man 23 years of age; wanted to know the age of the house.b. The time of life when a person becomes qualified to assume certain civil and personal rights and responsibilities, usually at 18 or 21 years; legal age: under age; of age.c. One of the stages of life: the age of adolescence; at an awkward age.d. The state of being old; old age: hair white with age.2. often Agea. A period of time marked by a distinctive characteristic, achievement, or figure: the Stone Age; the computer age; the Elizabethan Age.b. A period in the history of the earth, usually shorter than an epoch: the Ice Age.3. a. The period of history during which a person lives: a product of his age.b. A generation: ages yet unborn.4. ages Informal An extended period of time: left ages ago.v. aged, ag·ing, ag·es v.tr.1. To cause to become old or to show the signs of becoming old: The stress of the office visibly aged the president.2. To cause to mature or ripen under controlled conditions: aging wine.3. To change (the characteristics of a device) through use, especially to stabilize (an electronic device).v.intr.1. To become old or show signs of becoming old: Who doesn't want to age gracefully?2. To develop a certain quality of ripeness; become mature: cheese aging at room temperature.Phrasal Verb: age out Informal To reach an age, 18 or 21 years, for example, at which one is no longer eligible for certain special services, such as education or protection, from the state.Idiom: come of age To reach maturity. [Middle English, from Old French aage, from Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, from Latin aetās, aetāt-, age; see aiw- in Indo-European roots.] ag′er n.age (eɪdʒ) n1. the period of time that a person, animal, or plant has lived or is expected to live: the age of a tree; what age was he when he died?; the age of a horse is up to thirty years. 2. the period of existence of an object, material, group, etc: the age of this table is 200 years. 3. a. a period or state of human life: he should know better at his age; she had got beyond the giggly age. b. (as modifier): age group. 4. the latter part of life5. (Historical Terms) a. a period of history marked by some feature or characteristic; erab. (capital when part of a name): the Middle Ages; the Space Age. 6. generation: the Edwardian age. 7. (Geological Science) geology palaeontol a. a period of the earth's history distinguished by special characteristics: the age of reptiles. b. the period during which a stage of rock strata is formed; a subdivision of an epoch8. (Classical Myth & Legend) myth any of the successive periods in the legendary history of man, which were, according to Hesiod, the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages9. (often plural) informal a relatively long time: she was an age washing her hair; I've been waiting ages. 10. (Psychology) psychol the level in years that a person has reached in any area of development, such as mental or emotional, compared with the normal level for his chronological age. See also achievement age, mental age11. age before beauty (often said humorously when yielding precedence) older people take precedence over younger people12. (Law) of age adult and legally responsible for one's actions (usually at 18 or, formerly, 21 years)vb, ages, ageing, aging or aged13. to grow or make old or apparently old; become or cause to become old or aged14. to begin to seem older: to have aged a lot in the past year. 15. (Brewing) brewing to mature or cause to mature[C13: via Old French from Vulgar Latin aetatīcum (unattested), from Latin aetās, ultimately from aevum lifetime; compare aeon]age (eɪdʒ) n., v. aged, ag•ing age•ing. n. 1. the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time mentioned: trees of unknown age. 2. a period of human life, measured by years from birth, when a person is regarded as capable of assuming certain privileges or responsibilities: the age of consent. 3. the particular period of life at which a person becomes qualified or disqualified for something: to be over the age for military service. 4. one of the periods or stages of human life: middle age. 5. advanced years; old age: His eyes were dim with age. 6. a generation or a series of generations: ages yet unborn. 7. the period of history in which an individual lives: the most famous architect of the age. 8. (often cap.) a particular period of history; a historical epoch: the Periclean Age. 9. Usu., ages. a long period of time: You've been away for ages. 10. the average life expectancy of an individual or the individuals of a class or species: The age of a horse is from 25 to 30 years. 11. (often cap.) a. a period of the history of the earth distinguished by some special feature: the Ice Age. b. a unit of geological time, shorter than an epoch, during which the rocks comprising a stage were formed. v.i. 12. to grow old: She is aging gracefully. 13. to mature, as wine, cheese, or wood. v.t. 14. to cause to grow or seem old: Fear aged him overnight. 15. to bring to maturity; make ready for use: to age wine. Idioms: of age, having reached adulthood, esp. as specified by law: to come of age. [1225–75; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French aage, eage <aé (< Latin aetātem acc. of ae(vi)tās age; aev(um) time, lifetime)] -age a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech, occurring orig. in loanwords from French (courage; voyage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of” (spoilage; wreckage), “place of living or business” (brokerage; parsonage), “social standing or relationship” (bondage; marriage), and “quantity, measure, or charge” (footage). [Middle English < Old French < Latin -āticum, neuter of -āticus adj. suffix] AgeSee also children; old age. ageism, agismdiscrimination on the basis of age, especially against older people.antiquationthe process of making antiquated or the condition of being antiquated.coetaneitycoevalneity. — coetaneous, adj.coevalneitythe state or quality of being alike in age or duration; contemporaneity. Also called coetaneity. — coeval, aadj.junioritythe condition of being junior, as in age, rank, or position.quadragenarianismthe state of being in one’s forties. — quadragenarian, n., adj. — quadragenary, adj.quinquagenarianismthe state of being in one’s fifties. — quinquagenarian, n., adj. — quinquagenary, adj.sexagenarianismthe state of being in one’s sixties. — sexagenarian, n., adj. — sexagenary, adj.Age See Also: LIFE, MANKIND, YOUTH - Age covered her like a shawl to keep her warm —Rose Tremain
- Age … indeterminate as a nun —Sharon Sheehe Stark
- Age is a sickness, and youth is an ambush —John Donne
- Age is like love, it cannot be hid —Thomas Dekker
- Age, like a cage, will enclose him —Alastair Reid
- Age, like distance, lends a double charm —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Age like winter weather … age like winter bare —William Shakespeare
These comparisons of age to the weather, from the poem The Passionate Pilgrim, are alternated with youth and the weather similes. See Also: YOUTH, WEATHER - Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ageless as the sun —Algernon Charles Swinburne
- The age of man resembles a book: infancy and old age are the blank leaves; youth, the preface; and man, the body or most important portion of life’s volume —Edward Parsons Day
- (Each year in me) ages as quickly as lilac in May —F. D. Reeve
The simile marks the opening of a poem entitled Curriculum Vitae. - Antique as the statues of the Greeks —Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- As a white candle in a holy place, so is the beauty of an aged face —Joseph Campbell
See Also: BEAUTY - At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage —John Andrew Holmes
- At thirty-nine, the days grow shorter, and night kneels like a rapist on the edge of your bed —Richard Selzer
- At twenty man is like a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty nothing at all —Valtasar Gracian
- Awareness [of one’s own age] comes … like a slap in the eye —Ingrid Bergman, on seeing a friend no longer young
See Also: REALIZATION - Being seventy-five means you sometimes get up in the morning and feel like a bent hairpin —Hume Cronyn, “Sixty Minutes” interview with Mike Wallace, April 12, 1987
See Also: PAIN, PHYSICAL FEELINGS - He could account for his age as a man might account for an extraordinary amount of money he finds has slipped through his fingers —John Yount
In his novel, Hardcastle, Yount expands on the simile as follows: “Sure, he could think back and satisfy himself that nothing was lost, but merely spent. Yet the odd notion persists that, if he knew just how to do it, he might shake himself awake and discover that he is young after all.” - Grow old before my eyes … as if time beat down on her like rain in a thunderstorm, every second a year —Erich Maria Remarque
- He had reached the time of life when Alps and cathedrals become as transient as flowers —Edith Wharton
- He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer’s booth —Arthur Schopenhauer
- How earthy old people become … moldy as the gravel —Henry David Thoreau
- Old as Methuselah —Seventeenth century proverb
This has inspired many variations including another cliche, “As old as the hills,” generally attributed to Sir Walter Scott’s The Monastery and Dickens’ David Copperfield. - I feel age like an icicle down my back —Dyson Carter
- A man of fifty looks old as Santa Claus to a girl of 20 —William Feather
- A man’s as old as his arteries —Pierre J. G. Cabanis
- Most old men are like old trees, past bearing themselves, will suffer no young plants to flourish beneath them —Alexander Pope
- My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kind —William Shakespeare
- Old age is a tyrant which forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death —Franois, Due de La Rochefoucauld
- Old age is false as Egypt is, and, like the wilderness, surprises —Babette Deutsch
- Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re on board there’s nothing you can do —Golda Meir, quoted on being over 70 by Oriana Fallaci, L’Europe, 1973
- Old age is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield —Muriel Spark
- Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young —Fred Astaire
- Old age is rather like fatigue, except that you cannot correct it by relaxing or taking a vacation —B. F. Skinner and M. E. Vaughan
- Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go —B. F. Skinner and M. E. Vaughan
- Old age took her [Queen Elizabeth] by surprise, like a frost —Anon
- Old as a garment the moths shall eat up —The Holy Bible/Isaiah
- Old as a hieroglyph —John Berryman
- Old as civilization —Morley Safer, “60 Minutes” segment on torture, November 9, 1986
- Old as death —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Old as God —Delmore Schwartz
- Old as the sun —Slogan, Sun Insurance Co.
- Old as history —Slogan, Anheuser-Busch beer
- (I’m as) old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth —Jonathan Swift
- (Made her feel) older than coal —Joseph Wambaugh
- The old man is like a candle before the wind —Hilda Doolittle
- An old man, like a spider, can never make love without beating his own death watch —Charles Caleb Colton
- The old man who is loved is winter with flowers —German proverb
- (The Jewish women were as … ) old as nature, as round as the earth —Thomas Wolfe
- (The problem now is as) old as realism —Max Apple
- Old as stone —Marge Piercy
- Old as the most ancient of cities and older —Saul Bellow
- Old women and old men … huddle like misers over their bag of life —Randall Jarrell
- Some men mellow with age, like wine; but others get still more stringent, like vinegar —Henry C. Rowland
- The span of his seventy-five years had acted as a magic bellows —the first quarter century had blown him full with life, and the last had sucked it all back —F. Scott Fitzgerald
- To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps —William Wadsworth Longfellow
- Years steal fire from the mind as vigour from the limb —Lord Byron
- You know you’re getting older when every day seems like Monday —Kitty Carlisle quoting her mother, 1985 television interview
- Youth is like a dream; middle age, a forlorn hope; and old age a nostalgia with a pervasive flavor of newly turned earth —Gerald Kersh
Age (See also OBSOLESCENCE, YOUTH.) before one had nails on one’s toes See TIME. brand-new Entirely or completely new; unused; absolutely or perfectly new; also bran-new. This term, in use since 1570, is said to have come from the Anglo-Saxon word brand ‘torch’ and formerly denoted metals or metal articles fresh from the fire or furnace. A synonym is fire-new used by Shakespeare in Richard III: Your fire-new stamp of Honor is scarce current. (I, iii) knee-high to a grasshopper See PHYSICAL STATURE. long in the tooth Old; showing signs of old age. Although currently used of people, this expression originally applied exclusively to horses. It refers to the seemingly longer length of an older horse’s teeth, due to gum recession. To be honest I am getting quite long in the tooth and this is a method of bringing children into my Christmas. (Sunday Express, December 24, 1972) over the hill Past the time of greatest efficiency or power, past the prime of life, too old, aging; also, past the crisis, over the hurdles. The expression’s latter meanings may be derived from a traveler’s achievement of crossing a hill, after which the going is easier. The phrase’s more common meanings, however, allude to a hill as being the high point, or apex, of one’s effectiveness and authority, after which the only course is downhill. In contemporary usage, the phrase most often describes a person of advancing age. As they say about boxers who are getting on in years, she is over the hill. (I. Cross, God Boy, 1957 salad days Youth; the time of juvenile inexperience and naivete; the springtime of one’s life. This expression may have derived as an analogy between green ‘inexperienced, Immature’ and the predominant color of salad ingredients. This comparison was made in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra (I,v): My salad days, when I was green in judgment. Today, in addition to the phrase’s youthful sense, salad days also refers to any period in a person’s life or career characterized by callowness and unsophistication. In directing “The Pride and the Passion” Stanley Kramer created a picture as vast, heavily populated, and downright foolish as anything the Master [Cecil B. DeMille] confected in his salad days. (New Yorker, July, 1957) age Past participle: aged Gerund: ageing/aging
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I age | you age | he/she/it ages | we age | you age | they age |
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I aged | you aged | he/she/it aged | we aged | you aged | they aged |
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I am ageing/aging | you are ageing/aging | he/she/it is ageing/aging | we are ageing/aging | you are ageing/aging | they are ageing/aging |
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I have aged | you have aged | he/she/it has aged | we have aged | you have aged | they have aged |
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I was ageing/aging | you were ageing/aging | he/she/it was ageing/aging | we were ageing/aging | you were ageing/aging | they were ageing/aging |
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I had aged | you had aged | he/she/it had aged | we had aged | you had aged | they had aged |
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I will age | you will age | he/she/it will age | we will age | you will age | they will age |
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I will have aged | you will have aged | he/she/it will have aged | we will have aged | you will have aged | they will have aged |
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I will be ageing/aging | you will be ageing/aging | he/she/it will be ageing/aging | we will be ageing/aging | you will be ageing/aging | they will be ageing/aging |
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I have been ageing/aging | you have been ageing/aging | he/she/it has been ageing/aging | we have been ageing/aging | you have been ageing/aging | they have been ageing/aging |
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I will have been ageing/aging | you will have been ageing/aging | he/she/it will have been ageing/aging | we will have been ageing/aging | you will have been ageing/aging | they will have been ageing/aging |
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I had been ageing/aging | you had been ageing/aging | he/she/it had been ageing/aging | we had been ageing/aging | you had been ageing/aging | they had been ageing/aging |
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I would age | you would age | he/she/it would age | we would age | you would age | they would age |
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ageA subdivision of geological time.ThesaurusNoun | 1. | age - how long something has existed; "it was replaced because of its age"property - a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles"chronological age - age measured by the time (years and months) that something or someone has existed; "his chronological age was 71 years"bone age - a person's age measured by matching their bone development (as shown by X rays) with bone development of an average person of known chronological agedevelopmental age - a measure of a child's development (in body size or motor skill or psychological function) expressed in terms of age normsfertilization age, fetal age, gestational age - the age of an embryo counting from the time of fertilizationmental age - the level of intellectual development as measured by an intelligence testoldness - the quality of being old; the opposite of newnessnewness - the quality of being new; the opposite of oldnessoldness - the opposite of youngnessyoungness - the opposite of oldness | | 2. | age - an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age"historic periodhistory - the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"epoch, era - a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or eventantiquity - the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europegolden age - any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happinessJazz Age - the 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonismreign - the period during which a monarch is sovereign; "during the reign of Henry VIII"turn of the century - the period from about ten years before to ten years after a new century | | 3. | age - a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age"; "tall for his eld"eldlifespan, lifetime, life-time, life - the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life"time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life stateage of consent - the minimum age for marrying without parental consent or the minimum age for consensual sexual relations; intercourse at an earlier age can result in a charge of assault or statutory rape; the age differs in different states of the Unionlegal age, majority - the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairsnonage, minority - any age prior to the legal agedrinking age - the age at which is legal for a person to buy alcoholic beveragesvoting age - the age at which a person is old enough to vote in public elections | | 4. | age - a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"long time, yearsperiod, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"month of Sundays - a time perceived as long; "I hadn't seen him in a month of Sundays"eon, aeon - an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons ago"blue moon - a long time; "something that happens once in blue moon almost never happens"year dot - as long ago as anyone can remember; "he has been a conductor since the year dot" | | 5. | age - a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood"eld, geezerhood, old age, yearstime of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life statemid-sixties, sixties - the time of life between 60 and 70mid-seventies, seventies - the time of life between 70 and 80mid-eighties, eighties - the time of life between 80 and 90mid-nineties, nineties - the time of life between 90 and 100dotage, second childhood, senility - mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations | Verb | 1. | age - begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast"develop - grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment; "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a fetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time" | | 2. | age - grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce"senesce, maturate, mature, get onturn - become officially one year older; "She is turning 50 this year"fossilise, fossilize - become mentally inflexibledevelop - grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment; "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a fetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time"dote - be foolish or senile due to old age | | 3. | age - make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously"alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"rejuvenate - make younger or more youthful; "The contact with his grandchildren rejuvenated him" |
agenoun1. years, days, generation, lifetime, stage of life, length of life, length of existence He's very confident for his age.2. old age, experience, maturity, completion, seniority, fullness, majority, maturation, senility, decline (of life), advancing years, dotage, declining years, senescence, full growth, agedness, autumn or evening of your life, matureness Perhaps he has grown wiser with age. old age youth, childhood, adolescence, immaturity, young days, salad days, boyhood or girlhood, juvenescence3. time, day(s), period, generation, era, epoch the age of steam and steel4. a long time, years, forever, a lifetime, an eternity, aeons, yonks (informal) He waited what seemed an age. a long time a second, a moment, an instant, a short time, a flash, a little while, a split second, no time at all, a jiffy (informal), two shakes of a lamb's tail (informal), the twinkling or wink of an eyeplural noun1. (Informal) a long time or while, years, centuries, for ever (informal), aeons, donkey's years (informal), yonks (informal), a month of Sundays (informal), an age or eternity The bus took ages to arrive.verb1. grow old, decline, weather, fade, deteriorate, wither He seemed to have aged in the last few months.2. mature, season, condition, soften, mellow, ripen Whisky loses strength as it ages.come of age reach adulthood, mature, develop, grow up, bloom, blossom, become adult The money was held in trust until he came of age.Quotations "Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing; age, which forgives itself anything, is forgiven nothing" [George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists] "With age, the mind grows slower and more wily" [Mason Cooley City Aphorisms] "Age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read" [Francis Bacon Apophthegms, no. 97]agenoun1. Old age:agedness, elderliness, senectitude, senescence, year (used in plural).2. A particular time notable for its distinctive characteristics:day, epoch, era, period, time (often used in plural).3. Informal. A long time.Used in plural:eon, eternity, long, year (used in plural).Informal: blue moon.Idioms: forever and a day, forever and ever, month of Sundays.verb1. To grow old:get along, get on.2. To bring or come to full development:develop, grow, maturate, mature, mellow, ripen.Translationsage (eidʒ) noun1. the amount of time during which a person or thing has existed. He went to school at the age of six (years); What age is she? 年齡 年龄2. (often with capital) a particular period of time. This machine was the wonder of the age; the Middle Ages. 時期 时期3. the quality of being old. This wine will improve with age; With the wisdom of age he regretted the mistakes he had made in his youth. 年齡(年份)增加 陈化,熟化 4. (usually in plural) a very long time. We've been waiting (for) ages for a bus. 很長一段時間 很长一段时间 verb – present participle ˈag(e)ing – to (cause to) grow old or look old. He has aged a lot since I last saw him; His troubles have aged him. 變老,使變老 变老,使变老 aged adjective1. (ˈeidʒid) old. an aged man. 年老的 年老的2. (eidʒd) of the age of. a child aged five. ...歲的 ...岁的 ˈageless adjective never growing old or never looking older. ageless beauty. 永不衰老的,青春永駐的 不会老的ˈage-old adjective done, known etc for a very long time. an age-old custom. 古老的 古老的the aged (ˈeidʒid) old people. care for the aged. 老人 老人(come) of age (to become) old enough to be considered legally an adult (eg in Britain aged eighteen or over). 成年 成年age See:- a coon's age
- a dog's age
- a golden age
- a grand old age
- a/the grand old age
- act (one's) age
- act one's age
- act your age
- Act your age!
- act/be your age
- age before beauty
- age in place
- age of consent
- age out
- at a tender age
- at a/the ripe old age
- at the tender age of
- at/to a ripe old age
- awkward age
- be (on) the right side of (an age)
- be (on) the wrong side of (an age)
- be one age with (someone)
- be pushing (an age)
- come of age
- coming-of-age
- coon's age
- coon's age, a
- day and age
- dog's age
- drinking age
- feel (one's) age
- feel your age
- for a coon's age
- for the ages
- go on for ages
- go on for an age
- golden age
- in a coon's age
- in a dog's age
- in an age of years
- in this day and age
- live to a ripe old age
- live to the age of
- look (one's) age
- look your age
- of a certain age
- of age
- one age with (someone)
- ripe old age
- rock of ages
- tender age
- tender age of
- The age of miracles is past
- the awkward age
- the golden age
- the golden age of something
- the grand old age of
- the sunny side of (an age)
- the tender age of (something)
- to a/the ripe old age
- under age
- What’s your age?
- What's your age?
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age1. a. a period of history marked by some feature or characteristic; era b. (capital when part of a name): the Middle Ages; the Space Age 2. Geology palaeontola. a period of the earth's history distinguished by special characteristics b. the period during which a stage of rock strata is formed; a subdivision of an epoch 3. Myth any of the successive periods in the legendary history of man, which were, according to Hesiod, the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages 4. Psychol the level in years that a person has reached in any area of development, such as mental or emotional, compared with the normal level for his chronological age 5. of age adult and legally responsible for one's actions (usually at 18 or, formerly, 21 years) Age in humans, a stage of development that is characterized by specific regularities of formation of the organism and personality and by relatively stable morphophysiological and psychological traits. While age is a stage in the biological maturing of the organism, a process controlled by genetic factors, it is also a concrete result and stage of the social-psychological development of the personality and is determined by the conditions of life, training, and upbringing. The content and form of training and upbringing are historically composed and varied according to age; in their turn they affect the determination of the boundaries and possibilities of a given age. In contemporary pedagogy and developmental psychology, several ages are differentiated with respect to the known relationships of the boundaries: infancy (from birth to one year); pre-preschool, or early childhood (from one to three); preschool (from three to seven); early school age (from seven to ten years); juvenile, or middle school (from ten to 15); and late school, or early youth (15 to 18 years old). Beyond these limits there is no generally accepted classification in the literature; only old age is considered separately. With the increased longevity noted in the 20th century, gerontology and gerontopsychology have arisen as disciplines to study the problems of prolonging the active life of a human being. Each age has a characteristic structure of cognitive, emotional, and volitional properties and qualities; forms of behavior; types of relationships to the environment; and peculiarities of structure and functioning of various organs and systems of the organism. This structure, however, is not invariable: in the 20th century a general acceleration of the physical and mental development of children has been noted. On the other hand, educational theory, in solving the problem of optimizing training, widens the possibilities of age and the boundaries of acquiring knowledge. Training must take into account not only the level of development achieved but also the development perspectives (the concept of “zones of imminent development,” as formulated by L. S. Vygotskii): the teacher must know not only what is present in a child of a given age but also what can be achieved, given certain conditions, by the child in the near future. A. V. PETROVSKII age[āj] (biology) Period of time from origin or birth to a later time designated or understood; length of existence. (geology) Any one of the named epochs in the history of the earth marked by specific phases of physical conditions or organic evolution, such as the Age of Mammals. One of the smaller subdivisions of the epoch as geologic time, corresponding to the stage or the formation, such as the Lockport Age in the Niagara Epoch.
AGE (aerospace engineering) aerospace ground equipment age
age [āj] 1. the duration, or the measure of time of the existence of a person or object.2. to undergo change as a result of passage of time.developmental age.achievement age a measure of achievement expressed in terms of the chronologic age of a normal child showing the same degree of attainment.chronologic age the actual measure of time elapsed since a person's birth.developmental age 1. age estimated from the degree of anatomical development.2. in psychology, the age of an individual determined by degree of emotional, mental, anatomical, and physiological maturation.gestational age see gestational age.mental age the age level of mental ability of a person as gauged by standard intelligence tests.age (āj), 1. The period that has elapsed since birth. 2. One of the periods into which human life is divided, distinguished by physical evolution, equilibrium, and involution; for example, the seven ages of humankind are infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle life, senescence, and senility. 3. To grow old; to gradually develop changes in structure that are not due to preventable disease or trauma and that are associated with decreased functional capacity and an increased probability of death. 4. To artificially induce an appearance that is characteristic of one who has lived long or of a thing that has existed for a long time. 5. In dentistry materials science, the treatment of a material to stabilize or strengthen it by causing a coherent precipitate to form. A coherent precipitate is particle formation caused by clustering of atoms of one type as part of a lattice consisting of more than one atom type. [F. âge, L. aetas] Age noun The time period elapsed since birth; epoch. verb To grow old, senesce.
AGE Abbreviation for: acute gastroenteritis advanced glycosylation end-product, see there agarose gel electrophoresis angle of greatest extension antigen E aqueous garlic extractage Medtalk noun The time period elapsed since birth. See Maternal age effect, Paternal age verbTo grow old, senesce. age (āj) 1. The period elapsed since birth. 2. One of the periods into which human life is divided, distinguished by physical evolution, equilibrium, and involution; e.g., the seven human ages are: infancy, childhood, adolescence, maturity, middle life, senescence, and senility. 3. To grow old; to gradually develop changes in structure that are not due to preventable disease or trauma and that are associated with decreased functional capacity and an increased probability of death. 4. To cause artificially the appearance characteristic of one who has lived long or of a thing that has existed for a long time. 5. To render the bond between a nerve agent and acetylcholinesterase refractory to disruption by an oxime antidote. [F. âge, L. aetas]age (āj) 1. In dentistry materials-related science, treatment of a material to stabilize or strengthen it by forming a coherent precipitate that is particle formation caused by clustering of atoms of one type as part of a lattice consisting of more than one atom type. 2. One of the periods into which human life is divided. [F. âge, L. aetas]Patient discussion about ageQ. I would like to know the best age for pregnancy? Hi I am Deontae; I got married before 1 year. I and my wife planned to have a baby after 3 years. But now she is 25. I would like to know the best age for pregnancy? Which will help us to change our plan?A. actually there is no best age for pregnancy (as far as i know), but some studies and research had shown that after 35 years old, a pregnancy is categorized as high risk, because there are some abnormalities and labor complication that are tend to happened (statistically) along with the increase of mother's age (such as: down syndrome, genetic disorder, post-partum bleeding, miscarriage, etc.) so if your wife is now 25, i think you guys still have another 5-10 years to "accomplish" your family plan, hehehe... Good luck, and stay healthy always.. Q. when is the most common age to get any kind of cancer? is there is such age? A. no, not really. but i guess the older you get the older something can pop out. the cells are dividing and multiplying all of our life, and cancer can occur because of mutation happened in the cells. Q. Does eyesight always decrease with age? I am 45 years old and never had glasses. All my friends are starting to wear reading glasses. Should I expect this too?A. This is what usually happens; your eyesight deteriorates as you get older. Here is a link to a few things you can do in order to protect your eyesight: http://www.nia.nih.gov/HealthInformation/Publications/eyes.htm More discussions about ageAge
AGE. The time when the law allows persons to do acts which, for want ofyears, they were prohibited from doing before. See Coop. Justin. 446. 2. For males, before they arrive at fourteen years they are said not tobe of discretion; at that age they may consent to marriage and choose aguardian. Twenty-one years is full age for all private purposes, and the maythen exercise their rights as citizens by voting for public officers; andare eligible to all offices, unless otherwise provided for in theconstitution. At 25, a man may be elected a representative in Congress; at30, a senator; and at 35, he may be chosen president of the United States.He is liable to serve in the militia from 18 to 45. inclusive, unlessexempted for some particular reason. 3. As to females, at 12, they arrive at years of discretion and mayconsent to marriage; at 14, they may choose a guardian; and 21, as in males,is fun Age, when they may exercise all the rights which belong to their sex. 4. In England no one can be chosen member of parliament till he hasattained 21 years; nor be ordained a priest under the age of 24; nor made abishop till he has completed his 30th year. The age of serving in themilitia is from 16 to 45 years. 5. By the laws of France many provisions are made in respect to age,among which are the following. To be a member of the legislative body, theperson must have attained 40 years; 25, to be a judge of a tribunal deremiere instance; 27, to be its president, or to be judge or clerk of acourt royale ; 30, to be its president or procurer general; 25, to be ajustice of the peace; 30, to be judge of a tribunal of commerce, and 35, tobe its president; 25, to be a notary public; 21, to be a testamentarywitness; 30, to be a juror. At 16, a minor may devise one half of his,property as if he were a major. A male cannot contract marriage till afterthe 18th year, nor a female before full 15 years. At 21, both males andfemales are capable to perform all the act's of civil life. Toull. Dr. Civ.Fr. Liv. 1, Intr. n. 188. 6. In the civil law, the age of a man was divided as follows: namely,the infancy of males extended to the full accomplishment of the 14th year;at 14, he entered the age of puberty, and was said to have acquired fullpuberty at 18 years accomplished, and was major on completing his 25th year.A female was an infant til 7 years; at 12, she entered puberty, and acquiredfull puberty at 14; she became of fall age on completing her 25th year.Lecons Elem. du Dr. Civ. Rom. 22. See Com. Dig. Baron and Feme, B 5, Dower, A, 3, Enfant, C 9, 10, 11, D3, Pleader, 2 G 3, 2 W 22, 2 Y 8; Bac. Ab. Infancy and Age; 2 Vin. Ab. 131;Constitution of the United States; Domat. Lois Civ. tome 1, p. 10; Merlin,Repert. de Jurisp. mot Age; Ayl. Pand. 62; 1 Coke Inst. 78; 1 Bl. Com. 463.See Witness. FinancialSeeagingAGE
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Synonyms for agenoun yearsSynonyms- years
- days
- generation
- lifetime
- stage of life
- length of life
- length of existence
noun old ageSynonyms- old age
- experience
- maturity
- completion
- seniority
- fullness
- majority
- maturation
- senility
- decline
- advancing years
- dotage
- declining years
- senescence
- full growth
- agedness
- autumn or evening of your life
- matureness
Antonyms- youth
- childhood
- adolescence
- immaturity
- young days
- salad days
- boyhood or girlhood
- juvenescence
noun timeSynonyms- time
- day(s)
- period
- generation
- era
- epoch
noun a long timeSynonyms- a long time
- years
- forever
- a lifetime
- an eternity
- aeons
- yonks
Antonyms- a second
- a moment
- an instant
- a short time
- a flash
- a little while
- a split second
- no time at all
- a jiffy
- two shakes of a lamb's tail
- the twinkling or wink of an eye
noun a long time or whileSynonyms- a long time or while
- years
- centuries
- for ever
- aeons
- donkey's years
- yonks
- a month of Sundays
- an age or eternity
verb grow oldSynonyms- grow old
- decline
- weather
- fade
- deteriorate
- wither
verb matureSynonyms- mature
- season
- condition
- soften
- mellow
- ripen
phrase come of ageSynonyms- reach adulthood
- mature
- develop
- grow up
- bloom
- blossom
- become adult
Synonyms for agenoun old ageSynonyms- agedness
- elderliness
- senectitude
- senescence
- year
noun a particular time notable for its distinctive characteristicsSynonymsnoun a long timeSynonyms- eon
- eternity
- long
- year
- blue moon
verb to grow oldSynonymsverb to bring or come to full developmentSynonyms- develop
- grow
- maturate
- mature
- mellow
- ripen
Synonyms for agenoun how long something has existedRelated Words- property
- chronological age
- bone age
- developmental age
- fertilization age
- fetal age
- gestational age
- mental age
- oldness
- newness
- youngness
noun an era of history having some distinctive featureSynonymsRelated Words- history
- epoch
- era
- antiquity
- golden age
- Jazz Age
- reign
- turn of the century
noun a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arisesSynonymsRelated Words- lifespan
- lifetime
- life-time
- life
- time of life
- age of consent
- legal age
- majority
- nonage
- minority
- drinking age
- voting age
noun a prolonged period of timeSynonymsRelated Words- period
- period of time
- time period
- month of Sundays
- eon
- aeon
- blue moon
- year dot
noun a late time of lifeSynonyms- eld
- geezerhood
- old age
- years
Related Words- time of life
- mid-sixties
- sixties
- mid-seventies
- seventies
- mid-eighties
- eighties
- mid-nineties
- nineties
- dotage
- second childhood
- senility
verb begin to seem olderRelated Wordsverb grow old or olderSynonyms- senesce
- maturate
- mature
- get on
Related Words- turn
- fossilise
- fossilize
- develop
- dote
verb make olderRelated WordsAntonyms |