(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.
Olden
Definition:
(a.) Old; ancient; as, the olden time.
(v. i.) To grow old; to age.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Harriet Harman gives a frank interview about the olden days, in which she reveals a passionate affair with Arthur Scargill.
(2) In the olden days there was a saying: ‘Raise children to look after you in old age.’ But these days we have a very good social insurance system so nobody thinks about whether family planning was a mistake.” Military powerhouse The consequences of China’s looming ageing population will be felt far beyond the country’s borders.
(3) Yet, through the final third of the 20th century, rheumy-eyed, scarred and bent-nosed ancients would shake their heads at his virtuosities, sigh, and insist that the big, bold champions of their far tougher olden days would have ambushed, cornered, speared and most damnably done for the swankpot in no time.
(4) It is possible that poorly selected or poorly pretreated emergency food have sometimes contributed to the death of famine victims in the olden times.
(5) The cell adhesion activity of another peptide from the 33-kD fragment, termed CS1 (Humphries, M. J., A. Komoriya, S. K. Akiyama, K. Olden, and K. M. Yamada.
(6) Löfven [umlaut on o], a former welder with a boxer's nose, faces the difficult challenge of trying to win back Social Democrat voters without looking like what Swedes call a betongsosse, or concrete socialist of the olden days.
(7) In strong periodicity, flight of time in itself shows a cyclic structure, but in contrary sense, aperiodical, strongly damped processes have a linear structure of tern part of the 20th century's sciences, but its philosophical model representation is able to be retraced until the zervanitic speculations of the Olden Iran.
(8) It sounds phoney and sad, as if all she wanted was a marriage and a life from the olden days, and it was more realistic to find it in a terrorist cell than to try to make it happen in Aylesbury.
(9) The nonglycosylated protein was twice as sensitive as the glycosylated protein to proteolytic hydrolysis in vitro as had been suggested by previous studies with intact cells [Olden, K., Pratt, R.M.
(10) "In the olden days, being a donor or supporter was much more black and white," he says, adding that now, people might "like" a charity on Facebook, which could in turn direct friends to sponsor a fundraising event.
(11) January 14, 2016 Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) The Oscars are gonna be so white that Chris Rock is gonna have to walk through the back door of the venue, like the olden days.
(12) In the olden days (that is, until about three years ago), prizes were everything – for prestige, but also for sales.
(13) In olden times it and sometimes also reindeer lichen (Cladonia sp.)
(14) And it doesn’t matter that there’s none of the traditional cachet that comes with a primetime slot at the Pleasance Courtyard, nor that in the olden days, this stick-not-twist venue choice would look like career stasis.
(15) Since olden times, people in Japan have burnt incense when they worshipped their ancestors.
(16) This paper remembers any facts of comparative linguistics which demonstrate remnants of a Protomongolian substratum in olden and living languages of Central Asia, the Near Orient, Europe, and the Canary Islands.
(17) True riders go commando under their shorts to avoid chafing and saddle sores, though in the olden days riders used to stuff a raw steak down their pants to stave off such injuries, which they would allegedly eat at the end of the stage when it was nice and tender.
(18) ; Sharrow, S.; Olden, K.; White, S.L., Cancer Commun.
(19) 48:1410-1415; 1988 and White, S. L.; Schweitzer, K.; Humphries, M.J.; Olden, K. Biochem.
(20) In the olden days we used to call this “phone calls” or “Skyping”.