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Määritelmät
Verbi
- (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old or older; to show marks of age.
- (intransitive, of a statement, prediction, etc.) To suffer the passage of time so as to later be viewed or turn out in a certain way.
- (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
- To allow to mature.
- To treat or tamper with in order to give a false appearance of age.
- (transitive) To determine the age of (the length of time that something has been alive or in existence).
- (transitive) To indicate or reveal that (a person) has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.
- (transitive, figuratively) To allow (something) to persist by postponing an action that would extinguish it, as a debt.
- (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
Substantiivi
- (countable) The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.; see also the usage notes)
- (uncountable) The state of being old; the latter part of life.
- (countable) Any particular stage of life.
- (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
- (uncountable) Maturity; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
- (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
- The time or era in history when someone or something was alive or flourished.
- (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
- (countable, geology) The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and governed by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
- (countable) A period of one hundred years; a century.
- (countable, uncommon, possibly dated) A generation.
- (countable, hyperbolic) A long time.
- (countable) Lifespan, lifetime; the total time that some being is alive from birth to death (or some category of beings, on average).
- (countable, poker) The entitlement of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
Esimerkit
- There are three ages living in her house.
- He grew fat as he aged.
- As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
- I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-coloured, hair here and there.
- They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that.
- One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.
- Money's a little tight right now, let's age our bills for a week or so.
- Grief ages us.
- It's been an age since we last saw you.
- What is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
- the Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age; the Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic epoch
- the golden age; the age of Pericles
- The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.
- the age of consent; the age of discretion
- to come of age; he (or she) is of age
- Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
- Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | aged | Imperfekti | aged |
| Partisiipin preesens | ageing (australia) | Partisiipin preesens | aging |
| Monikko | ages | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | ages |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | ageth (vanhahtava) | | |