A great deal of research has examined the effects of ageing on our physical and mental capacities. The whisky is aged for at least two years in oak barrels. Grammar Age. Idiom come of age. If someone ages or something ages them, they look older :. She's aged since the last time we met. The brandy is aged in oak for ten years. The elderly. All breakages must be paid for. Outcomes and consequences. Conditions and characteristics. Names and titles. Other aka alias appellation be a name to conjure with idiom first name forename form of address given name good name patronymic pen name pet name place name pseudonym trademark under the name of idiom unidentified unnamed untitled See more results ».
The program is aimed at viewers in the to age group. Note: usually said about a person. To age food or drink is to give it time to become ripe or develop a full flavor :.
Examples of age. A group of 16 children were studied between 11 and 79 months of age. From the Cambridge English Corpus. The corresponding age difference for women was years. The children were aged 4;10 at the beginning of the study. Two-thirds were aged years, 30 per cent were years, and only 5 per cent aged 60 years or more. The average age of the two groups was not significantly different. Correction was done between 3 months and 7 years of age.
Their age varied between 4 days and 3 years. The age of the supracrustal rocks is unknown. They were adults from twenty-one to thirty-five years of age. The age at onset was between 44 and 73 years. There was a difference of about a year in average age.
By 4 years of age the weight distribution of these children was relatively poor. See all examples of age. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations with age. How do I search for these? All results can be displayed as timelines simply click on the link at the top of the results list , or you can browse the OED via the Timelines option.
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Find Out More Continue. A profusion of words The early modern period was an era of great change for the English language. Back to top. Canting dictionaries There was certainly interest in slang or at least the canting slang of rogues and vagabonds throughout the seventeenth century.
John Simpson, chief editor, OED. Categories: History of English. Twentieth century English — an overview. A hat, a hypnotist, and one partially bad egg. The new Prime Minister is cultivating relationships with old Eastern Bloc countries.
The new house is not dissimilar to our old one except that it's a bit bigger. In the past. Old English, French, etc. A2 [ before noun ] especially of a friend known for a long time :. She's one of my oldest friends - we met in kindergarten. There's old Sara working away in the corner. I hear poor old Frank's lost his job. Dashed decent of you, old boy! He's an insipid old bore.
Lasting for a long time. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Relationships: general words. Grammar Elder , eldest or older , oldest? Idioms be as old as the hills. These cuts in services will particularly affect the old. The old are particularly vulnerable to these fraudsters. These holidays are aimed at the old. The old tend to have a different perspective on war. The elderly. An old man lives there with his dog.
They have a beautiful old farm house in the country. Poor old Frank broke his arm. Our old house in Lakewood burned down. Sharon gave her old skates to her younger cousin. Examples of old. Meanwhile, the state granted tracts of land to nobles or permitted them to purchase land in what had become the old borderlands. From the Cambridge English Corpus. It is based on a one-year qualitative research project, which seeks to explore the experiences of social dance for older dancers.
Specifically, the younger children might be expected to show greater phonetic sensitivity to the input than older children. Any categorisation of chronological age obscures the physiological, psychological and social diversity of older people. The unsatisfactory housing of these older people can be expected to have consequences for their physical and psychological well-being.
Psychological distress among older primary care attenders is associated with frequent attendance. A group of 27 older adults in inpatient rehabilitation were interviewed during the programme and after returning home. Many of the students are older, having returned to college in laterlife.
Science advances by replacing old theories with new ones that make better predictions. Some fences have been replaced and moved compared to older maps, but it is still quite easy to recognize the localities from former studies.
Perhaps only older children understand indirect requests as observers. Myopathies in the older patient requested in patients with generalized or bulbar weakness.
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