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Aging vs Intact - What's the difference?

aging | intact |

As adjectives the difference between aging and intact

is that aging is becoming elderly while intact is untouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; whole; undefiled; left complete or entire; not damaged.

As a verb aging

is .

As a noun aging

is the process of becoming older or more mature.

aging

English

(wikipedia aging)

Alternative forms

* ageing (Commonwealth English)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (en noun) (US)
  • The process of becoming older or more mature.
  • Allowing something to become older.
    • The owner asked the clerk to age some big bills that were due.
  • 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"

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Becoming elderly.
    • The aging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.

    Usage notes

    * Comparative and superlative forms are rare.

    Anagrams

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    intact

    English

    Adjective

  • Untouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; whole; undefiled; left complete or entire; not damaged.
    • I packed my belongings carefully so that they would survive the move intact .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 26 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits : , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=But Pirates! comes with all the usual Aardman strengths intact , particularly the sense that its characters and creators alike are too good-hearted and sweet to nitpick. The ambition is all in the craft rather than in the storytelling, but it’s hard to say no to the proficiency of that craft, or the mild good cheer behind it. }}
  • Uncircumcised; commonly used to describe a penis with a foreskin in intactivism.
    • The opposite of a circumcised penis is an intact penis.

    Synonyms

    *(uncircumcised) see also .