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单词 agelong
释义

age /āj/

noun
  1. Duration of life
  2. The time during which a person or thing has lived or existed
  3. The time of life reached
  4. Mature years
  5. Legal maturity
  6. The time or fact of being old
  7. Equivalence in development to the average of an actual age
  8. A period of time
  9. Any great division of world, human, or individual history
  10. A generation
  11. A century
  12. (esp in pl) a long time, however short (informal)
intransitive verb (aging or ageing /ājˈing/; aged /ājd/)
  1. To grow old
  2. To develop the characteristics of old age
  3. To mature
transitive verb
  1. To make to seem old or to be like the old
  2. To determine the age of
ORIGIN: OFr aäge (Fr âge), from L aetās, -ātis, for aevitās, from L aevum age

aged /ājˈid/ adjective

  1. Advanced in age, old
  2. /ājd/ of the age of
  3. Subjected to aging, eg aged timbers
plural noun /ājˈid/ (usu with the)

Old people

agedness /ājˈid-nis/ noun

The condition of being aged

ageˈism noun

Discrimination on grounds of age

ageˈist noun and adjective

ageˈless adjective

  1. Never growing old, perpetually young
  2. Timeless

ageˈlessness noun

ageˈlong adjective

Lasting an age

agˈing or ageˈing noun

  1. The process of growing old or developing qualities of the old
  2. Maturing
  3. Change in properties that occurs in certain metals at atmospheric temperature after heat treatment or cold-working

ageˈ-bracket noun

The people between particular ages, taken as a group

age group noun

A group of people of a similar age

age hardening noun

Hardening of metals by spontaneous structural changes over time

age limit noun

The age under or over which one may not do something

ageˈ-long adjective

Having been in existence for a long time

age of consent see under consent

age of discretion see under discretion

ageˈ-old adjective

Very old, ancient

be or act your age!

Don't be childish

be ages with (Scot)

To be the same age as

(come) of age

(to become) old enough to be considered legally mature (with respect to voting, crime, contracts, marriage, etc)

of an age

Of the same or similar age

over age

Too old

under age

  1. Too young
  2. Not yet of age

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