age
年龄,年龄段,年龄大小,年龄大小的问题
Related Words
Definitions
- 1
- : 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.
- : one of the periods or stages of human life: a person of middle age.
- : advanced years; old age: His eyes were dim with age.
- : a particular period of history, as distinguished from others; a historical epoch: the age of Pericles; the Stone Age; the age of electronic communications.
- : the period of history contemporary with the span of an individual's life: He was the most famous architect of the age.
- : a generation or a series of generations: ages yet unborn.
- : a great length of time: I haven't seen you for an age. He's been gone for ages.
- : the average life expectancy of an individual or of the individuals of a class or species: The age of a horse is from 25 to 30 years.
- : Psychology. the level of mental, emotional, or educational development of a person, especially a child, as determined by various tests and based on a comparison of the individual's score with the average score for persons of the same chronological age.
- : Geology. a period of the history of the earth distinguished by some special feature: the Ice Age.a unit of geological time, shorter than an epoch, during which the rocks comprising a stage were formed.
- : any of the successive periods in human history divided, according to Hesiod, into the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages.
- : Cards. Poker.the first player at the dealer's left.Compare edge. eldest hand.
- 1
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.
- 1
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.
- : to expose to steam or humid air in order to fix the dye.
- : to stabilize the electrical properties of by passing current through it.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
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.