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As a proper noun age

is .

As a noun red is

(reverse electrodialysis).

age

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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= 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.}}
  • (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= 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.}}
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (latter part of life) dotage, old age, eld

    Derived 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-age

    Verb

  • 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
  • They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that.
  • * Landor
  • I am aging ; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-coloured, hair here and there.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Stephen P. Lownie], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/david-m-pelz David M. Pelz
  • , title= 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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    red

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (redder)
  • Having red as its color.
  • The girl wore a red skirt.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Your colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose.
  • Of hair, having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
  • Her hair had red highlights.
  • Leftwing, socialist, or communist.
  • * "Only Nixon could go to China" was the refrain of conventional wisdom during Richard Nixon’s 1972 official visit to Mao Tse-tung’s regime. Nixon’s anti-communist credentials, however dubious, provided useful camouflage as he opened diplomatic relations with Red China and made breathtaking concessions that an undisguised liberal couldn’t get away with. [http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1998/vo14no16/vo14no16_dragon.htm]
  • (US, modern) Supportive of or dominated by the political party represented by the color red, especially the U.S. Republican Party.
  • a red state
    a red Congress
  • (US, modern) Of, pertaining to, or run by (a member of) the political party represented by the color red, especially the U.S. Republican Party.
  • a red advertisement
  • (British) Supportive of the Labour Party.
  • (Germany, politics) Related to the .
  • the red -black grand coalition
  • (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
  • (particle physics) Having a color charge of red.
  • Antonyms
    * (having red as its colour) nonred, unred
    Derived terms
    * better dead than red * Little Red Riding Hood * Old Red Sandstone * ragged red fibers * red admiral * red alert * red algae * red ant * Red Army * red as a beetroot * redback * red-baiting * red-baked shrike * red bay * red-bellied black snake * red biddy * redbird * red blood cell * red-blooded * Red Brigades * redbud * redbug * red cabbage * red card * red carpet * red cedar * red cell * red cent * Red China * red circle rate * red clover * red Clydeside * redcoat * red coral * red corpuscle * Red Crescent * Red Cross * redcurrant * redden * red-diaper baby * reddish * red diesel * red drum * red earth * red ensign * redeye * red-faced * red fescue * red fire * redfish * red flag, Red Flag * red fox * red giant * red goods * red-green coalition * Red Guard * red gum * red-handed * red hat * redhead * redheaded * red heat * red herring * redhorse * red-hot * red-hot poker * red ink * red kangaroo * Red Ken * red lead * red leaf * red leg * red-legged grasshopper * Red Leicester * red-letter day * red light * red-light district * Red List * red maple * red marrow * red mass * red meat * red menace * red mercury * red mist * red mite * red mulberry * red mullet * red oak * red ocher * red osier * red packet * red panda * red-pencil * red pepper * red pine * red planet * red-point * redpoll * Red Poll * red puccoon * red rag * red rattle * red ribbon * redroot * red route * red scare * Red Sea * red setter * red shank * redshank * red shift * red-shouldered hawk * red siskin * red snapper * red snow * red spider * Red Spot * red spruce * Red Square * red squill * red squirrel * red state * red steenbras * reds under the bed * red tape * red tide * redtop * red-top * red valerian * Red Vienna * red water * red whortleberry * redwing * red-winged blackbird * red wolf * redwood * red worm * river red gum * western red cedar

    Noun

  • (countable, and, uncountable) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc.
  • (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
  • (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
  • (countable, and, uncountable) wine.
  • * {{quote-song
  • , year = 1977 , title = (Scenes from an Italian Restaurant) , composer = (Billy Joel) , album = , passage = A bottle of red , a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / in our Italian restaurant. }}
  • (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
  • * 1971 , Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005), page 202:
  • The big market, these days, is in Downers. Reds and smack—Seconal and heroin—and a hellbroth of bad domestic grass sprayed with everything from arsenic to horse tranquillizers.
  • (informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
  • (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) red lemonade
  • (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
  • Derived terms
    * antired * blood red * brick red * cherry red * Chinese red * chrome red * Congo red * go red * in the red * Indian red * Panama Red * phenol red * Pompeian red * see red * Turkey red * Venetian red

    See also

    * * * primary colour

    References

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    Etymology 2

    From the archaic verb (m).

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (rede)
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (colloquial)
  • References

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    Etymology 4

    From (etyl), from (etyl), compare (etyl) (m).

    Verb

    (redd)
  • (Pennsylvania)
  • References

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