| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. Signifies an entity that ages, based on the verb age.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb | 1. To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.[Websters] 2. Base verb from the following inflections: agisting, agisted, agists, agister, agisters, agistingly and agistedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (age) |
1. Begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast".[Wordnet]. 2. Make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously".[Wordnet]. 3. Grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce".[Wordnet]. 4. To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.[Websters]. 5. To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: aging, aged, ages, agist, agists, agingly and agedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. |
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Date "Agist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Law | AGIST, in contrads. The taking of other men's cattle on one's own ground at a certain rate. 2 Inst. 643; 4 Inst. 293. (references) | ||
| Literature | Agist To take the cattle of another to graze at a certain sum. The feeding of these beasts is called agistment. The words are from the Norman agiser (to be levant and couchant, rise up and lie down), because, says Coke, beasts are levant and couchant whilst they are on the land. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. Signifies an entity that ages, based on the verb age.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb | 1. To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.[Websters] 2. Base verb from the following inflections: agisting, agisted, agists, agister, agisters, agistingly and agistedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (age) | 1. Begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast".[Wordnet]. 2. Make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously".[Wordnet]. 3. Grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce".[Wordnet]. 4. To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.[Websters]. 5. To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: aging, aged, ages, agist, agists, agingly and agedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "AGIST" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Law | AGIST, in contrads. The taking of other men's cattle on one's own ground at a certain rate. 2 Inst. 643; 4 Inst. 293. (references) | ||
| Literature | Agist To take the cattle of another to graze at a certain sum. The feeding of these beasts is called agistment. The words are from the Norman agiser (to be levant and couchant, rise up and lie down), because, says Coke, beasts are levant and couchant whilst they are on the land. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Age adjustment | In Epidemiology, Age adjustment is a technique used to better allow populations to be compared when the ages of the populations are quite different (for example, Utah vs. Florida). (references) | ||
| Age bracket | A group of people having approximately the same age. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Age class | People in the same age range. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Age class structure | Age class structure, in fisheries and wildlife management, is a part of population assessment. Age can be determined by fish scales, examination of teeth in many species, and with many methods both lethal and non-lethal. (references) | ||
| Age Discrimination in Employment Act | The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (Pub. L. 90-202) (ADEA), prohibits employment discrimination against persons 40 years of age or older in the United States. It also sets standards for pensions and benefits provided by employers and requires that information about the needs of older workers be provided to the general public. (references) | ||
| Age District, Mie | Age (安芸郡; -gun) is a district located in Mie, Japan. (references) | ||
| Age fabrication | Age fabrication is when a person deliberately lies about their actual age. It is usually for the purpose of gaining privileges or seeming younger, sometimes going as far as to altering vital records. For example, during the 1940s and 1950s in Hollywood, it was extremely common for actresses to subtract at least one year from their actual age. Most often, it is lowered. Sometimes it is not the people themselves that lower their public age, but others around them such as publicists, parents, and other handlers. (references) | ||
| Age grade | In sociology and anthropology, an age grade or age class is a social category based on age, within a series of such categories, through which individuals pass over the course of their lives. This is in contrast to an age set, to which individuals remain permanently attached as the set itself becomes progressively more senior. (references) | ||
| Age group | A group of people having approximately the same age. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Age limit | Regulation establishing the maximum age for doing something or holding some position. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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| Absolute age | Geological | The approximate age of a geologic event, feature, fossil, or rock in years. 'Absolute' ages are determined by using natural radioactive 'clocks'. The preferred term is radiometric age. (references) | |
| Actual age | Geography | Geologic age of sediments determined by their natural radioactivity. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Actual age | Mining | See: absolute age. (references) | |
| Age (of Groundwater) | Administration | An approximation of the time between the water’s penetration of the land surface at one location and its later presence at another location. (references) | |
| Age admitted | Insurance | A phrase included in a life assurance or annuity policy indicating that the assurers agree the age of the life assured. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Age and Service Annuity | Railroads | Monthly benefit payable to employees with at least 10 years (120 months) of creditable railroad service, or at least 5 years (60 months) of creditable railroad service after 1995. (references) | |
| Age as accords | Literature | 1: (To). To do what is fit and right (Scotch law term). Here "Age" is from the Latin agere, to do. 2: "To set about the matter in a regular manner, or, as he termed it ... to "age as accords."" - Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Age attained | Insurance | The last birthday of a life proposed for assurance. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Age class | Environment | One of the intervals into which the age range of trees is divided for classification or use. (references) | |
| Age class | Forestry | Any interval into which the age range of trees, forests, stands, or forest types is divided for classification. Forest inventories commonly group trees into 20-year age classes. (references) | |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| AGE | English | Amarillo Grain Exchange | Food & Agriculture | |
| AGE | French | Analyse des gaz émis | Chemical Industry, Meteorology & Standards | |
| AGE | Italian | Acido grasso essenziale | Chemistry, Medicine | |
| AGE | Portuguese | Acordo Geral sobre o Empréstimo | N/A | |
| AGE | Spanish | Acuerdo General de Empréstito | Finance | |
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