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"
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"
DOT
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
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
END
(American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; "no one wanted to play end"
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"
the part you are expected to play; "he held up his end"
put an end to; "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"
a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
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"
be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"
the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior inte
EPOCH
a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
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
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"
STAGE
plan, organize, and carry out (an event); "the neighboring tribe staged an invasion"
perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'"
a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
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"
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
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"
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"