ages 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.
- (14)
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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ages 近义词
period of animate existence
a period of time
become older
更多ages例句
- 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.