[syn: go steady, go out, date, see]
5. provide with a dateline; mark with a date;
- Example: "She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Date \Date\, n.[F. datte, L. dactylus, fr. Gr. ?, prob. not the
same word as da`ktylos finger, but of Semitic origin.] (Bot.)
The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
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Note: This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive,
containing a soft pulp, sweet, esculent, and wholesome,
and inclosing a hard kernel.
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Date palm, or Date tree (Bot.), the genus of palms which
bear dates, of which common species is Ph[oe]nix
dactylifera. See Illust.
Date plum (Bot.), the fruit of several species of
Diospyros, including the American and Japanese
persimmons, and the European lotus (Diospyros Lotus).
Date shell, or Date fish (Zool.), a bivalve shell, or its
inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See
Pholas.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Date \Date\, v. i.
To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with
from.
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The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the
French arms. --E. Everett.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Date \Date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dating.] [Cf. F. dater. See 2d Date.]
1. To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an
instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a
letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.
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2. To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the
date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
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Note: We may say dated at or from a place.
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The letter is dated at Philadephia. --G. T.
Curtis.
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You will be suprised, I don't question, to find
among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a
letter dated from Blois. --Addison.
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In the countries of his jornal seems to have been
written; parts of it are dated from them. --M.
Arnold.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Date \Date\, n. [F. date, LL. data, fr. L. datus given, p. p. of
dare to give; akin to Gr. ?, OSlaw. dati, Skr. d[=a]. Cf.
Datum, Dose, Dato, Die.]
1. That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which
specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the
writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made;
as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin.
etc.
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And bonds without a date, they say, are void.
--Dryden.
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2. The point of time at which a transaction or event takes
place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of
time; epoch; as, the date of a battle.
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He at once,
Down the long series of eventful time,
So fixed the dates of being, so disposed
To every living soul of every kind
The field of motion, and the hour of rest.
--Akenside.
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3. Assigned end; conclusion. [R.]
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What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date.
--Pope.
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4. Given or assigned length of life; dyration. [Obs.]
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Good luck prolonged hath thy date. --Spenser.
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Through his life's whole date. --Chapman.
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To bear date, to have the date named on the face of it; --
said of a writing.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
date
n 1: the specified day of the month; "what is the date today?"
[syn: date, day of the month]
2: a participant in a date; "his date never stopped talking"
[syn: date, escort]
3: a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid
kissing at the end of a date" [syn: date, appointment,
engagement]
4: a particular but unspecified point in time; "they hoped to
get together at an early date" [syn: date, particular
date]
5: the present; "they are up to date"; "we haven't heard from
them to date"
6: the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the
Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred; "he tried to
memorizes all the dates for his history class"
7: a particular day specified as the time something happens;
"the date of the election is set by law"
8: sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody
seed
v 1: go on a date with; "Tonight she is dating a former high
school sweetheart"
2: stamp with a date; "The package is dated November 24" [syn:
date, date stamp]
3: assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of;
"Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or
prehistorical findings"
4: date regularly; have a steady relationship with; "Did you
know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his
former wife again!" [syn: go steady, go out, date,
see]
5: provide with a dateline; mark with a date; "She wrote the
letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to
reveal that she procrastinated"
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
date
A string unique to a time duration of 24
hours between 2 successive midnights defined by the local time
zone. The specific representation of a date will depend on
which calendar convention is in force; e.g., Gregorian,
Islamic, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew etc. as well as local
ordering conventions such as UK: day/month/year, US:
month/day/year.
Inputting and outputting dates on computers is greatly
complicated by these localisation issues which is why they
tend to operate on dates internally in some unified form such
as seconds past midnight at the start of the first of January
1970.
Many software and hardware representations of dates allow only
two digits for the year, leading to the year 2000 problem.
Unix manual page: date(1), ctime(3).
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