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Ager vs Yager - What's the difference?

ager | yager |

As a verb ager

is .

As a noun yager is

(us|obsolete) a heavy, muzzle-loading hunting rifle.

ager

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who or that which ages something.
  • (label) One who is aging; an elderly person.
  • * 1965 , Richard Hays Williams, Claudine G. Wirths, Lives Through the Years: Styles of Life and Successful Aging , Transaction Publishers (ISBN 9780202367125), page 165
  • When the aging person depends on another, the control of the aged one's life space is placed in the hands of another person who may or may not contribute action energy that is appropriate or acceptable from the standpoint of the ager .
  • * 2006 , Gloria Davenport, Working with Toxic Older Adults: A Guide to Coping with Difficult Elders , Springer Publishing Company (ISBN 9780826117236), page 143
  • Inappropriate behavior then erupts from the agers' involved, disturbing everyone around, including the ' agers themselves, who often do not understand what is happening and struggle excessively to maintain rigid control of old perceptions and self images.
  • * 2014 , Susan H. Mcfadden, Mark Brennan, NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF LATE , Routledge (ISBN 9781134731107), page 62
  • This definition of success is located in society's structures and suits society, not the agers . Successful ageing is arguably therefore a socially constructed phenomenon, characterized by lack of “noise,” maintenance of youthful status until death, and a dogged engagement with social structures which appear almost as if designed to discourage the engagement of older people.

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    yager

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, obsolete) A heavy, muzzle-loading hunting rifle
  • *{{quote-book, year=1857, author=Mayne Reid, title=The War Trail, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=There are fourscore of them; and but that each carries a yager rifle in his hand, a knife in his belt, and a Colt's pistol on his thigh, you could not discover the slightest point of resemblance between any two of them. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1874, author=Mayne Reid, title=The Death Shot, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Many present identify it as the yager usually carried by Clancy. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1879, author=William F. Cody, title=The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=We were each armed with a Mississippi yager and two Colt's revolvers. }}
  • A , an elite soldier of the Austrian army
  • *{{quote-book, year=1863, author=Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle, title=Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Most of the officers were dressed in
  • *{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Maurus Jokai, title=Manasseh, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=A battalion of yagers , the pride of the Austrian army, charged up the fatal hill and succeeded in taking it, after which the rattle of musketry beyond announced that the fight was being continued on the farther side. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1926, author=John Marshall, title=The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5), chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Three days after this affair, Colonel Richard Butler, with a detachment of infantry, assisted by Major Lee with a part of his cavalry, fell in with a small party of chasseurs and yagers' under Captain Donop, which he instantly charged, and, without the loss of a man, killed ten on the spot, and took the officer commanding the chasseur, and eighteen of the ' yagers , prisoners. }}

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