Agin vs Aging - What's the difference?
agin | aging |
* 1859 , (Charles Dickens), "A Tale of Two Cities", in (All the Year Round) , vol. 1, p.
** At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation : “Bust me, if she ain't at it agin !”
* 1859 , (w, Harper's New Monthly Magazine) , vol. 19, p.
** [The Court] said: "Young man, this ere Court is satisfied that there ain't nothin' in the laws of Vermont agin''' tippin' over a churn full of sap. [...] But I want ye should remember one thing—that this ere Court has made up his mind that it's a very naughty trick, and it's a shame that there's so many maple-trees in the State, and no law '''agin tippin' over sap."
(en noun) (US)
The process of becoming older or more mature.
Allowing something to become older.
The deliberate act of making something (such as an antique) appear older than it is.
(gerontology) Becoming senescent; accumulating damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time
(euphemistic) Elderly person. Only as a collective plural in "the aging"
Becoming elderly.
As an adverb agin
is alternative form of lang=en.As a preposition agin
is alternative form of lang=en.As a verb aging is
present participle of lang=en.As a noun aging is
the process of becoming older or more mature.As an adjective aging is
becoming elderly.agin
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Adverb
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Preposition
(English prepositions)278:
Anagrams
* * * ----aging
English
(wikipedia aging)Alternative forms
* ageing (Commonwealth English)Verb
(head)Noun
- The owner asked the clerk to age some big bills that were due.
Adjective
(en adjective)- The aging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.