April 13, 2014

Age of People

Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 1 v.05
     Main Definitions
  1. age |v| the number of years that a person has lived or a thing has existed.
  2. “She left school at the age of 18.”
  3. "The proportion of men and women is relatively equal between the age of 30 and 49."
  4. "What do you remember about being the age your children are now?"
  5. age range |n| the people between two particular ages, considered as a group.
  6. "Young people in the 15-18 age range."
  7. "This affects people across a wide age range."
  8. "The World Health Organization uses the 10-19 year age range to define adolescente."
  9. age group |n| persons of approximately the same age and often of the same sex, nationality, educational or social background, etc.
  10. "51% of enquiries were from those in the 25 to 40 age group."
  11. "In 2006, one out of every nine persons is aged 60 years or older and it is estimated that by 2050 one in five persons will be in this age group."
  12. "Participation also varies widely by age group and attainment level."

      Figurative Ways
  1. “To be in one’s second childhood.”
  2. “In your teens.”
  3. “Awkward age.”
  4. “To get on in leaps and bounds.”
  5. “Middle-aged.”
  6. “Golden age.”
  7. “Euf elderly.”
  8. “Retirement age.”
      More Related
  1. age of reason |n| an age at which a person is considered capable of making reasoned judgements.
  2. "The law also designates the following persons as lacking in legal capacity: minors who have not yet reached the age of reason (7 years) and the insane."
  3. "Furthermore, he restored the custom, long out of practice, of allowing children to receive their First Communion at the age of reason."
  4. age mate |n| a person or animal that is the same age as another.
  5. "On or about May 18, Haille turned to her friend Ron. Different from the age mate friends she had turned to for help, Ron at 35-years-old, was older and more experienced."
  6. age set |n| a group of boys or men of a similar age.
  7. "The minimum age set for voluntary recruitment into the armed forces, in accordance with the declaration submitted upon ratification or accession or any change thereafter."
  8. "According to this study, children are working in the informal sector because they are not of the minimum age set by law, leaving them vulnerable in light of the unfavourable conditions in which they work."
  9. underage |n| too young to engage legally in a particular activity, especially drinking alcohol.
  10. "Those parents who gave alcohol to their underage children, either for the sake of a bit of peace and quiet or because they were oblivious of the consequences, came in for much criticism."
  11. "On the contrary, there are instances where the conduct of underage marriages has been refused."
  12. overage |n| over a certain age limit.
  13. "A team of overage and underage ball players."
  14. "Providing alternative education for overage children."
  15. "Please contact your employer regarding their rules for overage dependent students."
  16. "Elimination of the three primary challenges facing the Dominican education system: repetition, overage students, and early desertion."
  17. life expectancy |n| the average period that a person may expect to live.
  18. "The British male now has a life expectancy of 77.6 years"
  19. life stages |n| a division of human life, marked by changes in body and mind along someone's lifetime.
  20. "And so again, we women of my crossing-over generation must reinvent ousrselves in this new life stage."
  21. "Apart from financial deprivation, they have grown up with educational, health and social deficits, have missed life stages or have passed out of school."
  22. "As women take more than their political ideology to the polls, politicians must be cognizant of the life stages, as well as the demographic categories, into which women fall."


      People
  1. agged 1 |adj| having lived for a specified length of time; of a specified age.
  2. "Young people aged 14 to 18."
  3. "In local government elections all residents of the local authorities aged 18 years and above are eligible to vote except where they are disqualified by the law."
  4. agged 2 |adj| having lived or existed for a long time; old.
  5. "Uruguay is the most aged country in the hemisphere."
  6. "Aged men with white hair."
  7. ageless |n| not ageing or appearing to age.
  8. "Her face seemed ageless."
  9. "Some of her customers were women reflecting "ageless girl spirit," others were men buying for the women in their lives."
  10. "He grinned, suddenly looking ageless and timeless."
  11. elder 1 |adj| used to distinguish between related famous people with the same name.
  12. “Pliny the Elder.”
  13. “My elder daughter.”
  14. “The elder of the two sons.”
  15. "The Elder."
  16. “Schoolchildren were no less fascinated than their elders.”
  17. elder 2 |n| a leader or senior figure in a tribe or other group.
  18. “A council of village elders.”
  19. middle aged |n| a middle aged person.
  20. "Acording to the results of the 2005 general census, the number of middle-aged people has increased."
  21. "A couple of meters ahead, a middle aged lady standing at her front door, desperately tried to get the attention of a cab."


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