ages
年龄,年龄段,年龄段的人,年龄段的
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- : 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.
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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.
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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.
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Examples
An NL pitching development official9 agreed that deGrom may very well be younger in pitching years than his age suggests.
Disinformation about voting designed to deter turnout dates back well before the internet, but in the age of social media, it can spread like wildfire.
The workshops are geared toward all age groups and skill levels.
At age 14, he realized he could make money on the app and dropped out of high school to dedicate himself to the app and other side ventures.
The mindset with at least the older guard—and I’m in the middle at the age of 43—was that you were in this profession because you couldn’t do anything else.
Seventy-two adults between the ages of 18 and 50 are participating in the trial, led by the pediatrics department at Oxford.
Raw eel seemed to be popular during and after the Middle Ages.
There are about 80 million Americans between the ages of 18-34 and next year they are expected to spend $2.45 trillion.
According to a 2013 Pew Research Center study 28 percent of Jews ages 18 to 49 keep kosher inside their homes.
Men ages 18 to 24 enrolled in college were more likely to become a victim.
Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
And it is too true that ages of subjugation have demoralized, to a fearful extent, the Italian People.
Through what ages has that declaration, not to be denied, ascended to cold and cruel skies?
As public accuser, he caused the death of immense numbers, of all ages and either sex.
At the end of 1881 there were 93,776 children in the borough between the ages of three and thirteen.