(n.) The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
(n.) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
(n.) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.
(n.) One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
(n.) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age.
(n.) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion.
(n.) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles.
(n.) A great period in the history of the Earth.
(n.) A century; the period of one hundred years.
(n.) The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation.
(n.) A long time.
(v. i.) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.
(v. t.) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.
Example Sentences:
(1) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
(2) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(3) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(4) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(5) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
(6) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(7) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(8) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(9) Comparison with 194 age and sex matched subjects, without STD, were chosen as controls.
(10) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
(11) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
(12) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(13) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(14) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(15) In kidney, both age groups responded with an increase in activity.
(16) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(17) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(18) There were 12 males, 6 females, with mean age of 55.1 yrs (range 39-77 yrs).
(19) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(20) The main result of the correspondence analysis is a geometric map of this relationship showing how the relative frequencies of headache types change with age.
Ageless
Definition:
(a.) Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's a man of many names: The Walking Dude, The Ageless Stranger, He Who Walks Behind The Rows, The Man In Black, Walter O'Dim, The Dark Man.
(2) The second goal tries to produce nature beautiful faces, instead of the "Barbie dolls" faces with their unfortunately well-known ageless flat blank look.
(3) Duncan's game-winner helped San Antonio keep pace with Portland in the Western Conference standings, while doing little to stop the "Tim Duncan is a an Ageless Robot" conspiracy theory.
(4) Jane Fonda is ageless Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jane Fonda: hard-edged glamour.
(5) It seems impossible – surely she was ageless, like one of those very old, tiny, trees in the Arctic, gnarled and tough as a nut, but nonetheless evergreen.
(6) She is much more comfortable talking about ideas than herself, and her demeanour is serious, and ageless.
(7) In the images of celebrating Iraqis, we have also seen the ageless appeal of human freedom.
(8) To Israelis, this wasn't just another round of violence in a never-ending cycle; it was a national tragedy and the epitome of an ageless struggle.
(9) The episode also reinforces one of the central conceits of the Mulder-Scully partnership: how, exactly, do two FBI agents collect evidence to prosecute criminals – which is ostensibly what their job is supposed to be about – when the evidence includes 100-year-old fingerprints belonging to the ageless mutant sitting over there in the interrogation room?
(10) But the Australians, once they settled, found their rhythm around Matthew Leckie, Mark Bresciano and the ageless Tim Cahill, and for much of the second half an equaliser looked likely.
(11) Science fiction allows for the exploration of new and different permutations of seemingly ageless conflicts and concerns.
(12) The eighth-seeded Dallas Mavericks managed to post a 10-point lead over the ageless San Antonio Spurs in the afternoon's first game, before Tim Duncan and company limited the Mavericks to single field goal in the game's final seven minutes, securing a 90-85 victory.
(13) They argued the measures providing greater flexibility on annuities – championed by the Liberal Democrat pensions minister Steve Webb – were really aimed at 40- or 50-year-olds thinking about how to save, and that the reforms were in essence about the classic, ageless liberal values of extending choice, responsibility and freedom.
(14) As the Damien Hirst-led Young British Artists have slipped out of fashion and into middle age, their mysterious near contemporary – now thought to be about 40 – has retained an ageless, mildly subversive appeal, despite becoming an established part of the art market, holding exhibitions and featuring in auctions.
(15) Lots of groups aim to make ageless music: Public Enemy succeeded.
(16) Or maybe he thinks that by the time he's due for wrinkles he'll already have melded with AI and be sharing a kind of ageless cyberternity with Eric Schmidt.
(17) But back then, he was just this ageless mutant with a taste for blood who emerges every few decades to commit murder.
(18) Instead, the ageless Dirk Nowitzki had another all-star year, Ellis went from basketball stats geek punchline to a candidate for Most Improved Player, and the Mavs were able to last seven games against a Spurs team that once again had the best record in the Western Conference.
(19) He is 42, but ageless (he doesn't drink, smoke etc), with deep baby eyes and boyish features.
(20) Gorgui Dieng , of Minnesota, will be representing Senegal while his team-mate José Juan Barea joins the ageless Carlos Arroyo (last seen with the Celtics) with Puerto Rico.