Age vs Life - What's the difference?
age | life |
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.
* Holland
* Landor
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, title= The state that follows birth, and precedes death; the state of being alive and living.
:
*{{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
#A .
#:
#*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= #(lb) A status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism.
(lb) A period of time.
#The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant, a star) is alive.
#*
#*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
#*1916', (Ezra Meeker), ''The Busy '''Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker
#The span of time during which an object operates.
#:
#The period of time during which an object is recognizable.
#:
#(lb) A life sentence; a term of imprisonment of a convict until his or her death.
(lb) Personal existence.
#(lb) The essence of the manifestation and the foundation of the being.
#*1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , Ch.VI:
#*:"I realize as never before how cheap and valueless a thing is life'. '''Life''' seems a joke, a cruel, grim joke. You are a laughable incident or a terrifying one as you happen to be less powerful or more powerful than some other form of ' life which crosses your path; but as a rule you are of no moment whatsoever to anything but yourself. You are a comic little figure, hopping from the cradle to the grave. Yes, that is our trouble—we take ourselves too seriously; but Caprona should be a sure cure for that." She paused and laughed.
#(lb) The subjective and inner manifestation of the individual.
#*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life'. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as ' life -like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
#The world in general; existence.
#:
#A worthwhile existence.
#:
#Animation; spirit; vivacity.
#*(Henry Felton) (1679-1740)
#*:No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words.
#*(William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
#*:That gives thy gestures grace and life .
#The most lively component or participant.
#*1970 , Mathuram Bhoothalingam, The finger on the lute: the story of Mahakavi Subramania Bharati, National Council of Educational Research and Training, p.87:
#*:"Don't I know that it is you who is the life of this house. Two delightful children!"
#*1998 , Monica F. Cohen, Professional domesticity in the Victorian novel: Women, work and home, Cambridge University Press, page 32:
#*:And he is the life of the party at the Musgroves for precisely this reason: the navy has made him into a great storyteller.
#Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.
#:
#(lb) Social life.
#:
#*
#*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
#A biography.
#:
#*(Conyers Middleton) (1683-1750)
#*:Writers of particular lives are apt to be prejudiced in favour of their subject.
(lb) One of the player's chances to play, lost when a mistake is made.
:
As nouns the difference between age and life
is that age is the whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime while life is the state that follows birth, and precedes death; the state of being alive and living.As a verb age
is to cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.As a proper noun Life is
god.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.
Stephen P. Lownie], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/david-m-pelz David M. Pelz
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
*External links
* *life
English
(wikipedia life)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}