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Definition of Dating

1. Noun. Use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens.

Definition of Dating

1. Noun. A form of romantic courtship typically between two individuals with the aim of assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse. The result of dating may at any time lead to friendship, any level of intimate relationship, marriage, or no relation. ¹

2. Noun. An estimation of the age of an artifact, biological vestige, linguistic usage, etc. ¹

3. Noun. The setting of a date on which an event or transaction is to take place or take effect. ¹

4. Verb. (present participle of date) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dating

1. date [v] - See also: date

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dating

Literary usage of Dating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"lifted up the head of Joachin, king of Juda, and brought him forth put of prison" (incorporated in IV Kings, xxv, 27), evidently follows Babylonian dating. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"The church of Notre Dame in the same city, dating in its present form from about the thirteenth century, has an interesting late Gothic north portal, ..."

3. Credits and Collections by Richard Prentice Ettinger, David Edwin Golieb (1917)
"... Credit—Terms of Credit—Discounts —Commercial versus Banking Discounts—Cash, COD and CBD Terms—dating—Season dating—End of Month Terms—ROG Terms. ..."

4. A Brief for the Trial of Civil Issues Before a Jury by Austin Abbott, William Charles Wermuth (1922)
"Signing and dating. Provisions for the signing of the record are usually construed to be directory, so that the omission of the signature is not fatal to ..."

5. History: Fiction of Science? by Anatoly Fomenko (2005)
"THE CORRELATION BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT dating METHODS ILLUSTRATED BY THE ... A BRIEF SCHEME The dating method based on the principles of frequency damping ..."

6. Antigonos Gonatas by William Woodthorpe Tarn (1913)
"APPENDIX XI dating BY DELIAN FESTIVALS I USE in this book ... dating of the Delian archons, with a view to ..."

7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The drawing of the figures is very rude, probably dating from the 6th century BC The " Francois crater, " found at Chiusi, now in the Etruscan Museum in ..."

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