begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast"
make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously"
how long something has existed; "it was replaced because of its age"
a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age"; "tall for his eld"
a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood"
a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"
an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age"
epoch/era
grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce"
DOT
the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966
a very small circular shape; "a row of points"; "draw lines between the dots"
mark with a dot; "dot your `i's"
make a dot or dots
distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
scatter or intersperse like dots or studs; "Hills constellated with lights"
street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
END
(American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; "no one wanted to play end"
the part you are expected to play; "he held up his end"
a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
a final part or section; "we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus"; "Start at the beginning and go on until you come to the end"
the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; "the ends justify the means"
the concluding parts of an event or occurrence; "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie"
bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
a boundary marking the extremities of something; "the end of town"
put an end
EPOCH
a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
(astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
era
a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
ERA
(baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched
a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
Abbreviation for Engine Room Artificer - rank in Royal Navy
PHASE
adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition; "he phased the intake with the output of the machine"
arrange in phases or stages; "phase a withdrawal"
(astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun); "the full phase of the moon"
(physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary; "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system"
a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle
any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"
REGENCY
the office of a regent
the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity
the period of time during which a regent governs
STAGE
a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
plan, organize, and carry out (an event); "the neighboring tribe staged an invasion"
a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box"
perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'"
a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles"
the theater as a profession (usually `the stage'); "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"
any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; "All the world's a stage"--Shakespeare; "it set the stage for pea
TERM
name formally or designate with a term
(architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial; "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree"
a word or expression used for some particular thing; "he learned many medical terms"
one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition; "the major term of a syllogism must occur twice"
(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement; "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous"
a limited period of time; "a prison term"; "he left school before the end of term"
the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent; "a healthy baby born at full term"