Crossword clues for ageing
ageing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ageing \ageing\ n. same as aging.
Syn: ripening, aging, mellowing
Aging \Ag"ing\, n. the process by which objects or materials acquire desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time under specific conditions. It is used mostly for foods snd beverages, but also for other materials. [Also spelled ageing.]
ageing \ageing\ adj. 1. having lived for a relatively long (or a specified) time; not young; -- used especially of persons. Opposite of young.
Syn: aging, senescent, old.
Wiktionary
(context Australia New Zealand British English) Becoming elderly. alt. (context Australia New Zealand British English) (present participle of age English) n. 1 (context Australia New Zealand British English) The process of becoming older or more mature. 2 (context Australia New Zealand British English) The deliberate act of making something (such as an antique) appear older than it is. 3 (context Australia New Zealand British gerontology English) Becoming senescent; accumulating damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time. v
(context Australia New Zealand British English) (present participle of age English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Ageing, also spelled aging, is the process of becoming older. In the narrow sense, the term refers to biological ageing of human beings, animals and other organisms. In the broader sense, ageing can refer to single cells within an organism which have ceased dividing ( cellular senescence) or to the population of a species ( population ageing).
In humans, ageing represents the accumulation of changes in a human being over time, encompassing physical, psychological, and social change. Reaction time, for example, may slow with age, while knowledge of world events and wisdom may expand. Ageing is among the greatest known risk factors for most human diseases: of the roughly 150,000 people who die each day across the globe, about two thirds die from age-related causes.
The causes of ageing are unknown; current theories are assigned to the damage concept, whereby the accumulation of damage (such as DNA breaks or oxidised bases) may cause biological systems to fail, or to the programmed ageing concept, whereby internal processes (such as DNA telomere shortening) may cause ageing.
The discovery, in 1934, that calorie restriction can extend lifespan twofold in rats, and the existence of potentially immortal animals such as Hydra, have motivated research into delaying and preventing ageing and thus age-related diseases.
Ageing is the effect of time on a person.
Aging or ageing may also refer to:
Usage examples of "ageing".
I took to mean some obscure mystical interpretation he had formulated in his own muddled, ageing brain.
A step through that particular door will put them in a world where any illness is instantly cured and ageing reversed.
Chatterford personnel will have the pink to repair damage and retard ageing, but that is the most they will endure.
With the ageing mistress sick at Anet some said dyingthat tension must increase.
There were no Regency bucks there tonight, however, just a couple of dozen ageing rockers with a fascinating array of bimbettes on their knees, arms or various other parts of their anatomy.
In addition to rape, Selina is frightened of mice, spiders, dogs, toadstools, cancer, mastectomy, chipped mugs, ghost stories, visions, portents, fortune tellers, astrology columns, deep water, fires, floods, thrush, poverty, lightning, ectopic pregnancy, rust, hospitals, driving, swimming, flying and ageing.
Nor should he even contemplate loitering in the parks after dark, where ageing dryads specialise in the rankest depravities--and the rankest diseases.
An ageing roue, he was a gazetted fortune-hunter who liked to think that he was dangerous.
The scratching of the pen was loud in the otherwise silent room and Billy turned his gaze to the shiny pate of the ageing priest.
Textile manufacture began to decline after 1880, but luckily for an ageing Silas Twing and his ever-inventive son, Gordon, Silas had been doing some thinking.
She was restlessly ranging there, with her pacing step, her legs bent at the knee-joints, wrapped in a black cashmere shawl, a black veil wound about her disordered silver hair and tied under her chin, her ageing face, with the large writhen mouth, gleaming dead-white against her mourning.
Nobody greatly liked Taynth Indredd, but a diplomat in Pannoval had sent him as chief advisor an ageing priest, Guaddl Ulbobeg, known to be a friend of JandolAnganol since the days when the king had served his priestly term in the monasteries of Pannoval.
Anyone sharp-eyed enough to have caught sight of the occupants of the Mercedes that evening as it sped through the centre of Fettlesham in the direction of Fettlesham Royal Infirmary would have thought they were hallucinating: an ageing German admiral with a handlebar moustache was at the wheel of the car, a heavily bemedalled SS officer was in the passenger seat, and an overweight nun with crimson lips and sky-blue eye-shadow was sitting in the back gesticulating.
Woundings, slashings, cannibalism, pederasty, paedophilia, intestinal rape, sadistic penetrations of infants and the ageing became commonplace.
In short, Virchow was very sniffish and cold to Koch, for he had come to that time of life when ageing men believe that everything is known and there is nothing more to be found out.