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单词 ageing
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Definition of ageing in English:

ageing

(US aging)
noun ˈeɪdʒɪŋˈeɪdʒɪŋ
mass noun
  • 1The process of growing old.

    变老,衰老

    the external signs of ageing

    变老的外在标志。

    as modifier the ageing process

    老化过程。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Experts on aging and the elderly or on children, youth and families.
    • Traditionally, scientists believed that aging was a biological process in which cells simply stopped dividing.
    • Scientists seeking to control the biological process of aging may also contemplate doing so through genetic manipulations.
    • The process of aging is associated with numerous changes in all bodily systems that ultimately manifest in a decline in peak physiologic function.
    • Basic social and behavioral research and research training on the processes of aging at both the level of the individual and the society
    • Cap Lesesne, a New York plastic surgeon, hears from a lot of women worried about aging.
    • So demands for medical fixes for ageing are likely to grow.
    • If you know that somebody else cares about the top 20 signs of ageing you might come up with a few new ones.
    • There are, however, exceptions, such as the Pacific salmon, in which death does not come after a process of gradual aging, but is linked to a certain stage in the life cycle, in this case to spawning.
    • Virtually every theory about ageing from the ancient Greeks to the 19th century was a version of cooling or drying or a combination of the two.
    • The first suggests that aging evolved as a process of planned obsolescence.
    • The skin undergoes continual renewal but injury from the sun can upset the renewal process and produces premature aging as well as skin cancer.
    • ‘There's only so much you can do to alter the natural process of aging,’ says Brown.
    • Moreover, this approach will enhance the possibility of finding a potential interaction between an influence of neurotoxic exposure in the past and the process of aging.
    • Genetic manipulations that transform the process of human aging.
    • Age with Spirit, as the title suggests, is a guide for the average sensible man to develop a certain poise, a psychologically sound and creative attitude to the process of aging.
    • ‘We only think there's anything wrong with curing ageing because we've grown up with it as something ghastly but inevitable,’ he claims.
    • I think a lot of us want our dads to stay kind of permanently like they were maybe when we were growing up and we have trouble with any aging process.
    • That's a radical notion to many scientists who have long thought of aging as an uncontrollable process of deterioration that isn't regulated by single genes.
    • And to those who worried about growing old; it helped reduce signs of ageing.
    • The process of aging of tea leaves decreases the amount of antioxidants they contain, which seems to explain why green tea is a more powerful disease fighter than other teas.
    • In senior sports, ageing well is a major strategy.
    1. 1.1 The process of change in the properties of a material occurring over a period, either spontaneously or through deliberate action.
      (材料自然或人为的)老化
      the judicious use of oak ageing means the wines are capable of being confused with the great French Chardonnays
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Oak aging can soften the sharp acidity and add a dose of needed tannic structure.
      • Chablis District in northern Burgundy of France where a Chardonnay-based white wine is made, normally with little or no aging in small oak barrels.
      • The intense nebbiolo flavors and tannins of the Nebbiolo d' Alba and Barolo require years of aging before they can share their inner secrets.
      • Precipitation treatment is carried out on alloys which do not achieve full properties by natural ageing.
      • Fino is always dry, and after long aging, it might be bottled as an Amontillado.
      • In the tropics, just a few years of aging in an oak cask can create a depth of taste that takes twice as long to create for liquors, such as cognac, in Europe's colder climates.
      • Almost all half-decent wines will benefit from a couple of years of aging (cellaring).
      • This temperature is fine for wines that will be drunk in the near future, but it will not allow for proper aging in wines looking for longer cellaring periods.
      • Guyana is famous for rich, heavy rums while Haiti follows the French tradition of double distilling and extended aging in oak barrels for rich, full styles.
      • Only a handful of producers take Chenin seriously enough to try to make wines worth ageing from it.
      • OAK The wood primarily used for aging of white and red wines, imparting a flavor to the wine when the barrel is new.
      • At its best, the wine would often need a bit of aging to tame its fierceness, would have an elegant structure, and oak would never be a dominant feature.
      • All of these combine to make easy-drinking, consumer-friendly wines that don't require long aging.
      • Another method occurs in the winemaking process employing aging in new French oak barrels.
      • This extra ageing in oak barrels does not benefit all cognacs, and some will take on an unattractively dry, planky taste.
      • Good easy-drinking summer style, which could benefit from further bottle aging of 1-2 years.
      • This is the heart of the methode champenois process as the second fermentation and aging must take place in the bottle in which the wine is sold.
      • The aging in large Slovenian oak barrels remains the same and they are still not fining or filtering their wines.
      • Rioja wines are associated with a lush, velvety appeal and the sweet scent of vanilla, largely the result of long ageing in American oak barrels.
      • Andrea Costanti: classic wines needing aging to show their greatness.
      • The actual aging of Holandas in oak casks is what makes brandy into the drink we enjoy today.
adjective ˈeɪdʒɪŋˈeɪdʒɪŋ
  • 1(of a person) growing old; elderly.

    (人)变老的;上了年纪的

    an ageing population

    老年人口。

    looking after ageing relatives

    照顾上了年纪的亲戚。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is a shortage of doctors in certain rural and metropolitan areas and an ageing doctor population.
    • Ford Motor Co. has developed what it calls the Third Age Suit, an outfit its designers don to simulate movements of an aging person.
    • It was like the health problems of an aging person.
    • The imminent campaign to attract staff from outside Scotland is prompted by concerns about the ageing teacher population and new commitments on class sizes.
    • Many of us lack the leisure or propensity for deep, inquiring relationships with our aging parents.
    • This age group (rather than those aged 65 or older) was studied to examine a larger number of aging people.
    • I understand I think fairly deeply the losses that aging people experience as they get older, the loss of physical movement.
    • The plum role belongs to Robert Duvall as the aging hero whose past is as uncertain as his future.
    • Although many people see frailty as an inevitable consequence of ageing Jerry told Ric that many injuries suffered by the elderly are preventable.
    • Despite the differences between the aging president and the young church historian, Barnes grew to admire the old man.
    • This is not just the obvious ageing person's whinge because my kids can sort out computer or digital camera problems that baffle me.
    • The defence force will also be receiving fresh blood as it battles with an ageing soldier population.
    • The teenager and his ageing parents grow a small amount of rice but depend almost entirely on two buffaloes to maintain their precarious existence.
    • In Western societies, filial piety is often understood to be solely the practice of caring for aging parents and older relatives.
    • This way the government will still receive money for the NHS but wouldn't have to look after ageing people with all their health problems!
    • From elevators to automatic doors, these products help ease the lifestyle of aging families and persons with physical needs.
    • Instead, the aging widow Bernarda Alba personifies self-hatred and the ability of women to enforce the rules of men upon themselves.
    • Men do not often grow gracefully older with their aging partners, but lust after what they used to have - which you were still having.
    • This contributes to improve the health of ageing people, although it also increases the risk of adverse events related to drug treatment.
    • With only 20 million aging people, there was no profitable future in job boards in the recruitment advertising market in Australia.
    • Yet, they may find themselves caring for biological children, stepchildren, relatives, aging parents and a new spouse.
    • The aging man's grey eyes were no longer dull, but full of sadness, now shining with tears.
    • I know plenty of people who have strong family relationships that involve their adult children, ageing parents, siblings etc.
    Synonyms
    aged, old, mature, older, senior, ancient, venerable
    1. 1.1 (of a thing) reaching the end of useful life.
      到了使用寿命的
      the world's ageing fleet of oil tankers

      世界上到了使用寿命的运油船队。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Northwest Airlines is also within days of buying 787s to update its aging fleet.
      • With reference to the May issue prize letter from Audrey McBain about the use of words like elderly and ageing instead of ‘old’.
      • This move should also help its subsidiary, Alliance Air, now burdened and handicapped by an aging fleet that has almost outlived its life span.
      • Boeing's archrival, Airbus, could be in the running if the Air Force has to come up with a new plan to update its aging fleet of tankers.
      • It spends $1 billion per year on maintaining its aging fleet of trucks, but spends just $40 million buying new ones.
      • Turning now to a multibillion dollar battle over the modernization of the U.S. military, the Air Force says it needs to replace its aging fleet of refueling tankers.
      • Last year the Yorkshire Post revealed that the service's fleet of aging ambulances was so poor that many crews were referring emergencies to other stations as no ambulance was available
      • Military and police have complained they are underfunded and had to resort to cannibalizing parts from other aircraft to keep their aging fleets in the air.
      • However, maintenance of the aging fleet has been budgeted for the coming year, and this should be sufficient to forestall any further criticism.
      • The governor contended his only interest in importing the buses was to replace the capital's fleet of aging buses at a reasonable price.
      • China Airlines, majority owned by a government-run foundation, has been mulling purchasing planes from Airbus as it modernizes its fleet of aging aircraft.
      • Finally, I reached an old apartment building coated with aging brick.
      • Facts about the federal government's decision Friday to replace its aging fleet of Sea King military helicopters.
      • It was when he was in his early twenties and he was running his father's shipping company that an ageing oil tanker exploded and five people died.
      • Instead of saying that the country is readying its most seasoned diplomats and lawyers to rebuff the claims, it highlighted the deployment of its aging fleet to protect an empty sea.
      • China's submarine fleet includes 66 boats, most of them ageing diesel-electric vessels, McGinty said.
      • The Fokker - 50 was 11-years-old far newer than most passenger planes in Iran's ageing fleet
      • The biggest rise has been in leaks from agricultural premises, raising fears that farmers are failing to maintain ageing oil tanks because of severely declining incomes.
      • It was five long, painful minutes before he reached the safety of the worn ageing carpet of the living room.
      • But these aging aircraft are reaching the end of their lifespans.

Definition of aging in US English:

aging

(British ageing)
nounˈeɪdʒɪŋˈājiNG
  • 1The process of growing old.

    变老,衰老

    the external signs of aging

    变老的外在标志。

    as modifier the aging process

    老化过程。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The process of aging is associated with numerous changes in all bodily systems that ultimately manifest in a decline in peak physiologic function.
    • ‘We only think there's anything wrong with curing ageing because we've grown up with it as something ghastly but inevitable,’ he claims.
    • Traditionally, scientists believed that aging was a biological process in which cells simply stopped dividing.
    • I think a lot of us want our dads to stay kind of permanently like they were maybe when we were growing up and we have trouble with any aging process.
    • The first suggests that aging evolved as a process of planned obsolescence.
    • Experts on aging and the elderly or on children, youth and families.
    • That's a radical notion to many scientists who have long thought of aging as an uncontrollable process of deterioration that isn't regulated by single genes.
    • And to those who worried about growing old; it helped reduce signs of ageing.
    • There are, however, exceptions, such as the Pacific salmon, in which death does not come after a process of gradual aging, but is linked to a certain stage in the life cycle, in this case to spawning.
    • If you know that somebody else cares about the top 20 signs of ageing you might come up with a few new ones.
    • Basic social and behavioral research and research training on the processes of aging at both the level of the individual and the society
    • Virtually every theory about ageing from the ancient Greeks to the 19th century was a version of cooling or drying or a combination of the two.
    • Age with Spirit, as the title suggests, is a guide for the average sensible man to develop a certain poise, a psychologically sound and creative attitude to the process of aging.
    • The skin undergoes continual renewal but injury from the sun can upset the renewal process and produces premature aging as well as skin cancer.
    • So demands for medical fixes for ageing are likely to grow.
    • Scientists seeking to control the biological process of aging may also contemplate doing so through genetic manipulations.
    • Moreover, this approach will enhance the possibility of finding a potential interaction between an influence of neurotoxic exposure in the past and the process of aging.
    • Genetic manipulations that transform the process of human aging.
    • The process of aging of tea leaves decreases the amount of antioxidants they contain, which seems to explain why green tea is a more powerful disease fighter than other teas.
    • ‘There's only so much you can do to alter the natural process of aging,’ says Brown.
    • Cap Lesesne, a New York plastic surgeon, hears from a lot of women worried about aging.
    • In senior sports, ageing well is a major strategy.
    1. 1.1 The process of change in the properties of a material occurring over a period, either spontaneously or through deliberate action.
      (材料自然或人为的)老化
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Only a handful of producers take Chenin seriously enough to try to make wines worth ageing from it.
      • This extra ageing in oak barrels does not benefit all cognacs, and some will take on an unattractively dry, planky taste.
      • Fino is always dry, and after long aging, it might be bottled as an Amontillado.
      • Chablis District in northern Burgundy of France where a Chardonnay-based white wine is made, normally with little or no aging in small oak barrels.
      • This temperature is fine for wines that will be drunk in the near future, but it will not allow for proper aging in wines looking for longer cellaring periods.
      • Rioja wines are associated with a lush, velvety appeal and the sweet scent of vanilla, largely the result of long ageing in American oak barrels.
      • Guyana is famous for rich, heavy rums while Haiti follows the French tradition of double distilling and extended aging in oak barrels for rich, full styles.
      • Another method occurs in the winemaking process employing aging in new French oak barrels.
      • In the tropics, just a few years of aging in an oak cask can create a depth of taste that takes twice as long to create for liquors, such as cognac, in Europe's colder climates.
      • The actual aging of Holandas in oak casks is what makes brandy into the drink we enjoy today.
      • The intense nebbiolo flavors and tannins of the Nebbiolo d' Alba and Barolo require years of aging before they can share their inner secrets.
      • Oak aging can soften the sharp acidity and add a dose of needed tannic structure.
      • Precipitation treatment is carried out on alloys which do not achieve full properties by natural ageing.
      • OAK The wood primarily used for aging of white and red wines, imparting a flavor to the wine when the barrel is new.
      • All of these combine to make easy-drinking, consumer-friendly wines that don't require long aging.
      • This is the heart of the methode champenois process as the second fermentation and aging must take place in the bottle in which the wine is sold.
      • At its best, the wine would often need a bit of aging to tame its fierceness, would have an elegant structure, and oak would never be a dominant feature.
      • Almost all half-decent wines will benefit from a couple of years of aging (cellaring).
      • The aging in large Slovenian oak barrels remains the same and they are still not fining or filtering their wines.
      • Andrea Costanti: classic wines needing aging to show their greatness.
      • Good easy-drinking summer style, which could benefit from further bottle aging of 1-2 years.
adjectiveˈeɪdʒɪŋˈājiNG
  • 1(of a person) growing old; elderly.

    (人)变老的;上了年纪的

    an aging population

    老年人口。

    looking after aging relatives

    照顾上了年纪的亲戚。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is not just the obvious ageing person's whinge because my kids can sort out computer or digital camera problems that baffle me.
    • The aging man's grey eyes were no longer dull, but full of sadness, now shining with tears.
    • The teenager and his ageing parents grow a small amount of rice but depend almost entirely on two buffaloes to maintain their precarious existence.
    • Men do not often grow gracefully older with their aging partners, but lust after what they used to have - which you were still having.
    • There is a shortage of doctors in certain rural and metropolitan areas and an ageing doctor population.
    • This age group (rather than those aged 65 or older) was studied to examine a larger number of aging people.
    • The plum role belongs to Robert Duvall as the aging hero whose past is as uncertain as his future.
    • Instead, the aging widow Bernarda Alba personifies self-hatred and the ability of women to enforce the rules of men upon themselves.
    • The defence force will also be receiving fresh blood as it battles with an ageing soldier population.
    • This contributes to improve the health of ageing people, although it also increases the risk of adverse events related to drug treatment.
    • I understand I think fairly deeply the losses that aging people experience as they get older, the loss of physical movement.
    • With only 20 million aging people, there was no profitable future in job boards in the recruitment advertising market in Australia.
    • From elevators to automatic doors, these products help ease the lifestyle of aging families and persons with physical needs.
    • In Western societies, filial piety is often understood to be solely the practice of caring for aging parents and older relatives.
    • I know plenty of people who have strong family relationships that involve their adult children, ageing parents, siblings etc.
    • Despite the differences between the aging president and the young church historian, Barnes grew to admire the old man.
    • Ford Motor Co. has developed what it calls the Third Age Suit, an outfit its designers don to simulate movements of an aging person.
    • Yet, they may find themselves caring for biological children, stepchildren, relatives, aging parents and a new spouse.
    • Although many people see frailty as an inevitable consequence of ageing Jerry told Ric that many injuries suffered by the elderly are preventable.
    • It was like the health problems of an aging person.
    • This way the government will still receive money for the NHS but wouldn't have to look after ageing people with all their health problems!
    • The imminent campaign to attract staff from outside Scotland is prompted by concerns about the ageing teacher population and new commitments on class sizes.
    • Many of us lack the leisure or propensity for deep, inquiring relationships with our aging parents.
    Synonyms
    aged, old, mature, older, senior, ancient, venerable
    1. 1.1 (of a thing) reaching the end of useful life; obsolescent.
      到了使用寿命的
      the world's aging fleet of oil tankers

      世界上到了使用寿命的运油船队。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Military and police have complained they are underfunded and had to resort to cannibalizing parts from other aircraft to keep their aging fleets in the air.
      • Facts about the federal government's decision Friday to replace its aging fleet of Sea King military helicopters.
      • China Airlines, majority owned by a government-run foundation, has been mulling purchasing planes from Airbus as it modernizes its fleet of aging aircraft.
      • The governor contended his only interest in importing the buses was to replace the capital's fleet of aging buses at a reasonable price.
      • Last year the Yorkshire Post revealed that the service's fleet of aging ambulances was so poor that many crews were referring emergencies to other stations as no ambulance was available
      • It spends $1 billion per year on maintaining its aging fleet of trucks, but spends just $40 million buying new ones.
      • Boeing's archrival, Airbus, could be in the running if the Air Force has to come up with a new plan to update its aging fleet of tankers.
      • The Fokker - 50 was 11-years-old far newer than most passenger planes in Iran's ageing fleet
      • This move should also help its subsidiary, Alliance Air, now burdened and handicapped by an aging fleet that has almost outlived its life span.
      • But these aging aircraft are reaching the end of their lifespans.
      • It was five long, painful minutes before he reached the safety of the worn ageing carpet of the living room.
      • It was when he was in his early twenties and he was running his father's shipping company that an ageing oil tanker exploded and five people died.
      • China's submarine fleet includes 66 boats, most of them ageing diesel-electric vessels, McGinty said.
      • However, maintenance of the aging fleet has been budgeted for the coming year, and this should be sufficient to forestall any further criticism.
      • Instead of saying that the country is readying its most seasoned diplomats and lawyers to rebuff the claims, it highlighted the deployment of its aging fleet to protect an empty sea.
      • Northwest Airlines is also within days of buying 787s to update its aging fleet.
      • Turning now to a multibillion dollar battle over the modernization of the U.S. military, the Air Force says it needs to replace its aging fleet of refueling tankers.
      • With reference to the May issue prize letter from Audrey McBain about the use of words like elderly and ageing instead of ‘old’.
      • The biggest rise has been in leaks from agricultural premises, raising fears that farmers are failing to maintain ageing oil tanks because of severely declining incomes.
      • Finally, I reached an old apartment building coated with aging brick.
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