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age
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n 1: how long something has existed; "it was replaced because of
its age"
2: an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live
in a litigious age" [syn: historic period, age]
3: 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" [syn: age, eld]
4: a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for
ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years" [syn: long
time, age, years]
5: 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" [syn:
old age, years, age, eld, geezerhood]
v 1: begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife
caused him to age fast"
2: grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--
what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce" [syn:
senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate]
3: make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously"
[ant: rejuvenate]
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assuage
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v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
"She managed to mollify the angry customer" [syn: pacify,
lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify,
placate, gentle, gruntle]
2: satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst" [syn:
quench, slake, allay, assuage]
3: provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will
relieve your headaches" [syn: relieve, alleviate,
palliate, assuage]
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backstage
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adv 1: out of view of the public; behind the scenes; "Working
backstage to gain political support for his proposal";
"many private deals were made backstage at the
convention"
2: in or to a backstage area of a theater; "costumes were
changed backstage"
adj 1: concealed from public view or attention; "offstage
political meetings" [syn: offstage, backstage]
n 1: a stage area out of sight of the audience [syn: wing,
offstage, backstage]
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cage
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n 1: an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or
animals can be kept [syn: cage, coop]
2: something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
3: United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992) [syn:
Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.]
4: the net that is the goal in ice hockey
5: a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls
during batting practice [syn: batting cage, cage]
v 1: confine in a cage; "The animal was caged" [syn: cage,
cage in]
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disengage
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v 1: release from something that holds fast, connects, or
entangles; "I want to disengage myself from his influence";
"disengage the gears" [syn: disengage, withdraw] [ant:
engage, lock, mesh, operate]
2: free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the
cluttered floor" [syn: free, disengage] [ant: block,
close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate,
occlude]
3: become free; "in neutral, the gears disengage" [ant:
engage]
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engage
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v 1: carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in;
"She pursued many activities"; "They engaged in a
discussion" [syn: prosecute, engage, pursue]
2: consume all of one's attention or time; "Her interest in
butterflies absorbs her completely" [syn: absorb,
engross, engage, occupy]
3: engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in
the department"; "How many people has she employed?" [syn:
hire, engage, employ] [ant: can, dismiss,
displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the
axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate]
4: ask to represent; of legal counsel; "I'm retaining a lawyer"
5: give to in marriage [syn: betroth, engage, affiance,
plight]
6: get caught; "make sure the gear is engaged" [ant:
disengage]
7: carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns); "Napoleon and Hitler
waged war against all of Europe" [syn: engage, wage]
8: hire for work or assistance; "engage aid, help, services, or
support" [syn: engage, enlist]
9: engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an
apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we
take a guide in Rome?" [syn: lease, rent, hire,
charter, engage, take]
10: keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: engage, mesh,
lock, operate] [ant: disengage, withdraw]
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enrage
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v 1: put into a rage; make violently angry
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gage
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n 1: street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green
goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke,
skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane]
2: a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a
quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain
etc. [syn: gauge, gage]
v 1: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm
betting on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage,
stake, game, punt]
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gauge
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n 1: a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a
quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of
rain etc. [syn: gauge, gage]
2: accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or
quality against which others are judged or measured or
compared [syn: gauge, standard of measurement]
3: the distance between the rails of a railway or between the
wheels of a train
4: the thickness of wire
5: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge,
caliber, calibre]
v 1: judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or
time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"
[syn: estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge]
2: rub to a uniform size; "gauge bricks"
3: determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement
and calculation; "gauge the wine barrels"
4: measure precisely and against a standard; "the wire is
gauged"
5: adapt to a specified measurement; "gauge the instruments"
6: mix in specific proportions; "gauge plaster"
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offstage
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adv 1: behind the scenes; not on stage; "the actors were waiting
offstage" [ant: onstage]
2: not in public; "the deal was done offstage"
adj 1: situated or taking place in the area of a stage not
visible to the audience; "offstage noises" [ant:
onstage]
2: concealed from public view or attention; "offstage political
meetings" [syn: offstage, backstage]
n 1: a stage area out of sight of the audience [syn: wing,
offstage, backstage]
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onstage
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adv 1: on the stage; "it was time for her to go onstage" [ant:
offstage]
adj 1: situated or taking place on the area of a stage visible
to the audience [ant: offstage]
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page
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n 1: one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or
letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
2: English industrialist who pioneered in the design and
manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962) [syn: Page, Sir
Frederick Handley Page]
3: United States diplomat and writer about the Old South
(1853-1922) [syn: Page, Thomas Nelson Page]
4: a boy who is employed to run errands [syn: page, pageboy]
5: a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such
as legislative functions and weddings
6: in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as
the first stage in training for knighthood [syn: page,
varlet]
v 1: contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over
a P.A. system
2: work as a page; "He is paging in Congress this summer"
3: number the pages of a book or manuscript [syn: foliate,
paginate, page]
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phage
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n 1: a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria;
"phage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce
more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is
released to invade surrounding bacteria" [syn:
bacteriophage, phage]
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rage
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n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury,
rage, madness]
2: a state of extreme anger; "she fell into a rage and refused
to answer"
3: something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame
destroyed him" [syn: rage, passion]
4: violent state of the elements; "the sea hurled itself in
thundering rage against the rocks"
5: an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always
follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season"
[syn: fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, rage]
v 1: behave violently, as if in state of a great anger [syn:
ramp, rage, storm]
2: be violent; as of fires and storms
3: feel intense anger; "Rage against the dying of the light!"
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sage
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adj 1: having wisdom that comes with age and experience
2: of the grey-green color of sage leaves [syn: sage, sage-
green]
n 1: a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is
renowned for profound wisdom
2: aromatic fresh or dried grey-green leaves used widely as
seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc
3: any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan
herb [syn: sage, salvia]
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stage
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n 1: 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" [syn: phase, stage]
2: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or
especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness";
"at what stage are the social sciences?" [syn: degree,
level, stage, point]
3: 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"
4: the theater as a profession (usually `the stage'); "an early
movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the
contemporary stage"
5: 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" [syn:
stagecoach, stage]
6: a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we
embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise" [syn:
stage, leg]
7: any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing
something; "All the world's a stage"--Shakespeare; "it set
the stage for peaceful negotiations"
8: a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is
mounted for examination [syn: stage, microscope stage]
v 1: perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to
stage `Othello'" [syn: stage, present, represent]
2: plan, organize, and carry out (an event); "the neighboring
tribe staged an invasion" [syn: stage, arrange]
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swage
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n 1: a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or
a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging [syn:
upset, swage]
v 1: form metals with a swage [syn: swage, upset]
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upstage
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adv 1: at or toward the rear of the stage; "the dancers were
directed to move upstage" [ant: downstage]
adj 1: of the back half of a stage; "she crossed to the upstage
chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the audience"
[ant: downstage]
2: remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a
distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers" [syn:
aloof, distant, upstage]
n 1: the rear part of the stage
v 1: treat snobbishly, put in one's place
2: move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the
audience
3: steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone
else; "When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the
actress"
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wage
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n 1: something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he
wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all
their earnings" [syn: wage, pay, earnings,
remuneration, salary]
v 1: carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns); "Napoleon and
Hitler waged war against all of Europe" [syn: engage,
wage]
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paige
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n 1: United States baseball player; a black pitcher noted for
his longevity (1906-1982) [syn: Paige, Satchel Paige,
Leroy Robert Paige]
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plage
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n 1: the beach at a seaside resort
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osage
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n 1: a member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri
in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers; oil was
found on Osage lands early in the 20th century
2: a river in Missouri that is a tributary of the Missouri River
[syn: Osage, Osage River]
3: the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Osage
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mage
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gaige
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grage
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hage
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krage
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lage
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schrage
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wrage
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bethpage
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