Age vs Grade - What's the difference?
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The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
(uncountable) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
(uncountable) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life, eld; seniority; state of being old.
(countable) One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
(countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
(countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
(countable) A century; the period of one hundred years.
The people who live at a particular period.
(countable) A generation.
(countable, hyperbole) A long time.
To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
(figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
(accounting) To categorize by age.
To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
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, title= A rating.
The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
* {{quote-web
, year = 1986–2012
, author = paul wheaton permaculture
, title = Diatomaceous Earth (food grade): bug killer you can eat!
, site = richsoil.com
, url = http://www.richsoil.com/diatomaceous-earth.jsp
, accessdate = 2014-03-17
}}
A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
A level of pre-collegiate education.
A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
An area that has been graded by a grader (construction machine)
The level of the ground.
(label) A gradian.
(label) In a linear system of divisors on an n''-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of ''n generic divisors.
A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
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(label) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
(medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
To assign scores to the components of an academic test.
To assign a score to overall academic performance.
To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface.
(label) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
As a proper noun age
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rank.age
English
Noun
(en noun)Finland spreads word on schools, passage=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.}}
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=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.}}
Synonyms
* (latter part of life) dotage, old age, eldDerived terms
* act one's age * age before beauty * aged * ageism * age discrimination * age distribution * age group * ageist * ageless * age limit * agelong * Age of Aquarius * age of consent * Age of Enlightenment * age of majority * Age of Reason * age-old * age rating * age-reversal * ages * age spot * ageing, aging * all ages * atomic age/Atomic Age * bone age * Bronze Age * come of age/coming of age * coon's age * dark age/Dark Ages * day and age/in this day and age * drinking age * emotional age * for the ages * full age * golden age * heroic age * ice age * Industrial Age * Iron Age * jazz age * legal age * mental age * Middle Ages * New Age * new-age * nuclear age * of age * old-age * prehistoric age * school age * silver age * space age/space-age * Stone Age * teenage, teenager * under age/underage * voting age * youth-on-ageVerb
- They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that.
- I am aging ; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-coloured, hair here and there.
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Stents to Prevent Stroke, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=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.}}
See also
* *Statistics
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English
(wikipedia grade)Noun
(en noun)- There are a lot of varieties of diatomaceous earth, so when you are shopping, be sure to get the right stuff!
Make sure that you get food grade' diatomaceous earth. Some people make 3% of the food they eat be diatomaceous earth. There are claims at parasite control, longevity and all sorts of perks. I know that food '''grade''' diatomaceous earth is used heavily in storing grains - so you are probably already eating lots of diatomaceous earth every time you eat any bread, pasta or other grain based food.
Farmers feed food ' grade diatomaceous earth to their animals to reduce parasites and provide other benefits.
- This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.
- The grade of hatchets fiercely thrown / On wigwam-log, and tree, and stone.