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Definition of DATE

1. Noun. The specified day of the month. "What is the date today?"

2. Verb. Go on a date with. "Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart"

3. Noun. A participant in a date. "His date never stopped talking"

4. Verb. Stamp with a date. "The package is dated November 24"

5. Noun. A meeting arranged in advance. "She asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"

6. Verb. Assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of. "Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings"

7. Noun. A particular but unspecified point in time. "They hoped to get together at an early date"

8. Verb. Date regularly; have a steady relationship with. "Sam cannot DATE Sue "; "He is dating his former wife again!"

9. Noun. The present. "We haven't heard from them to date"

10. Verb. 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"

11. Noun. 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"

12. Noun. A particular day specified as the time something happens. "The date of the election is set by law"

13. Noun. Sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed.

Definition of DATE

1. n. The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.

2. n. 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.

3. v. t. 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.

4. v. i. To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.

Definition of DATE

1. to determine or record the date of [v DATED, DATING, DATES] : DATEABLE [adj]

Medical Definition of DATE

1. 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. 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. We may say dated at or from a place. "The letter is dated at Philadephia." (G. T. Curtis) "You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois." (Addison) "In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them." (M. Arnold) Origin: Cf. F. Dater. See Date. The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself. This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp, sweet, esculent, and wholesome, and inclosing a hard kernel. Date palm, or Date tree, a bivalve shell, or its inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See Pholas. Origin: F. Datte, L. Dactylus, fr. Gr, prob. Not the same word as finger, but of Semitic origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Date

data input device data link data mining data multiplexer data point data processing data processing data processor data rate data structure

data system data track datcha datchas date date date-mark date-nut bread dateable datebook

datebooks dated datedly datedness datednesses dateless dateline datelined datelines datelining

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