age 的 3 个定义
- the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
- a period of human life, measured by years from birth, usually marked by a certain stage or degree of mental or physical development and involving legal responsibility and capacity: the age of discretion; the age of consent; The state raised the drinking age from 18 to 21 years.
- the particular period of life at which a person becomes naturally or conventionally qualified or disqualified for anything: He was over age for military duty.
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aged, ag·ing or age·ing.
- to grow old: He is aging rapidly.
- to mature, as wine, cheese, or wood: a heavy port that ages slowly.
aged, ag·ing or age·ing.
- to make old; cause to grow or seem old: Fear aged him overnight.
- to bring to maturity or a state fit for use: to age wine.
- to store so that its electrical or magnetic characteristics become constant.
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age 近义词
period of animate existence
a period of time
become older
更多age例句
- Also included are the age of each home and its condition and quality.
- Young age, racial and ethnic disparities, poor education, poor preparation for pregnancy and a history of trauma are a few factors that can exacerbate the effects of stress.
- Many people of color are mentally conditioned at a young age to navigate society in specific ways to stay safe.
- A version of this article appears in the October 2020 issue of Fortune with the headline “An IPO coup for the trade war age.”
- Hildebrand took his first job in the oil business at age 20.
- However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.
- In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.
- Doctors have long wrestled with the age of consent when it comes to mature adolescents.
- You have to acknowledge your age and position in life, for me quite a lot of those emotionally fueled songs were hormone songs.
- The copilot on Flight 8501 was Remi Emmanuel Piesel, 46, who despite his age had just 2,275 hours of flying experience.
- Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.
- The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.
- In a warlike age this peacefulness of a monarch was the great and supernatural phenomenon.
- He began his military career at the age of 11, and continued in the service nearly 60 years.
- His hair was darker—almost brown save at the temples, where age had faded it to an ashen colour.