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date

1  [deyt] noun, verb, dat⋅ed, dat⋅ing.
Use date in a Sentence
–noun
1. a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen: July 4, 1776 was the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
2. the day of the month: Is today's date the 7th or the 8th?
3. an inscription on a writing, coin, etc., that shows the time, or time and place, of writing, casting, delivery, etc.: a letter bearing the date January 16.
4. the time or period to which any event or thing belongs; period in general: at a late date.
5. the time during which anything lasts; duration: The pity is that childhood has so short a date.
6. an appointment for a particular time: They have a date with their accountant at ten o'clock.
7. a social appointment, engagement, or occasion arranged beforehand with another person: to go out on a date on Saturday night.
8. a person with whom one has such a social appointment or engagement: Can I bring a date to the party?
9. an engagement for an entertainer to perform.
10. dates, the birth and death dates, usually in years, of a person: Dante's dates are 1265 to 1321.
–verb (used without object)
11. to have or bear a date: The letter dates from 1873.
12. to belong to a particular period; have its origin: That dress dates from the 19th century. The architecture dates as far back as 1830.
13. to reckon from some point in time: The custom dates from the days when women wore longer skirts.
14. to go out socially on dates: She dated a lot during high school.
–verb (used with object)
15. to mark or furnish with a date: Please date the check as of today.
16. to ascertain or fix the period or point in time of; assign a period or point in time to: The archaeologist dated the ruins as belonging to the early Minoan period.
17. to show the age of; show to be old-fashioned.
18. to make a date with; go out on dates with: He's been dating his best friend's sister.
—Idioms
19. to date, up to the present time; until now: This is his best book to date.
20. up to date, in agreement with or inclusive of the latest information; modern: Bring us up to date on the news.
Origin:
1275–1325; (n.) ME < MF < LL data, n. use of data (fem. of datus, ptp. of dare to give), from the phrase data (Romae) written, given (at Rome); (v.) ME daten to sign or date a document, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
dat⋅a⋅ble, date⋅a⋅ble, adjective
dat⋅a⋅ble⋅ness, date⋅a⋅ble⋅ness, noun
dater, noun
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date

2  [deyt]
–noun
the oblong, fleshy fruit of the date palm, a staple food in northern Africa, Arabia, etc., and an important export.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME < AF; OF dade, date < ML datil(l)us (> OPr, Catalan, Sp datil) < L dactylus; see dactyl
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date 1   (dāt)   
n.  
    1. Time stated in terms of the day, month, and year.
    2. A statement of calendar time, as on a document.
    3. A particular point or period of time at which something happened or existed, or is expected to happen.
    4. dates The years of someone's birth and death: Beethoven's dates were 1770 to 1827.
    5. An engagement to go out socially with another person, often out of romantic interest.
    6. One's companion on such an outing.
  2. A specified day of a month.
    1. A particular point or period of time at which something happened or existed, or is expected to happen.
    2. dates The years of someone's birth and death: Beethoven's dates were 1770 to 1827.
    3. An engagement to go out socially with another person, often out of romantic interest.
    4. One's companion on such an outing.
  4. The time during which something lasts; duration.
  5. The time or historical period to which something belongs: artifacts of a later date.
  6. An appointment: a luncheon date with a client; a date with destiny. See Synonyms at engagement.
    1. An engagement to go out socially with another person, often out of romantic interest.
    2. One's companion on such an outing.
  8. An engagement for a performance: has four singing dates this month.
v.   dat·ed, dat·ing, dates

v.   tr.
  1. To mark or supply with a date: date a letter.
  2. To determine the date of: date a fossil.
  3. To betray the age of: Pictures of old cars date the book.
  4. To go on a date or dates with.
v.   intr.
  1. To have origin in a particular time in the past: This statue dates from 500 B.C.
  2. To become old-fashioned.
  3. To go on dates.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin data, from Latin data (Romae), issued (at Rome) (on a certain day), feminine past participle of dare, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots.]
dat'a·ble, date'a·ble adj., dat'er n.
date 2   (dāt)   
n.  
  1. The sweet, edible, oblong or oval fruit of the date palm, containing a narrow, hard seed.
  2. A date palm.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Old Provençal datil, from Latin dactylus, from Greek daktulos, finger, date (from its shape).]
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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.

Note: 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 (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 (D. Lotus).

Date shell, or Date fish (Zo["o]l.), a bivalve shell, or its inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See Pholas.

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.

And bonds without a date, they say, are void. --Dryden.

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.

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.

3. Assigned end; conclusion. [R.]

What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date. --Pope.

4. Given or assigned length of life; dyration. [Obs.]

Good luck prolonged hath thy date. --Spenser.

Through his life's whole date. --Chapman.

To bear date, to have the date named on the face of it; -- said of a writing.

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.

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.

Note: 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.

Date

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

The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms. --E. Everett.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : date
Spanish: fecha,
German: das Datum,
Japanese: 年月日
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date  (1)
"time," c.1330, from O.Fr. date, from M.L. data, noun use of fem. sing. of L. datus "given," pp. of dare "to give, grant, offer," from PIE base *do- "to give" (cf. Skt. dadati "gives," O.Pers. dadatuv "let him give," O.C.S. dati "give," Gk. didomi, didonai, "to give, offer," O.Ir. dan "gift, talent"). The Roman convention of closing every article of correspondence by writing "given" and the day and month -- meaning "given to messenger" -- led to data becoming a term for "the time (and place) stated." The meaning "to give" is also the root of the grammatical dative (M.E.), the case of giving. Dateline in the journalism sense is attested from 1888. Phrase up to date (1890) is from bookkeeping. Dated "old-fashioned" is attested from 1900. Date (n.) "romantic liaison" is from 1885, gradually evolving from the general sense of "appointment;" the verb in this sense is first recorded 1902. Meaning "person one has a date with" is from 1925. Blind date first recorded 1925, but probably in use before that. Date rape first attested 1975.

date  (2)
"fruit," c.1290, from O.Fr. date, from O.Prov. datil, from L. dactylus, from Gk. daktylos "date," orig. "finger, toe," because of fancied resemblance between oblong fruit of the date palm and human digits. Possibly from a Sem. source (cf. Heb. deqel, Aram. diqla, Arabic daqal "date palm") and assimilated to the Gk. word for "finger."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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date convention, data
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).
(1997-07-11)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Date

the fruit of a species of palm (q.v.), the Phoenix dactilifera. This was a common tree in Palestine (Joel 1:12; Neh. 8:15). Palm branches were carried by the Jews on festive occasions, and especially at the feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:40; Neh. 8:15).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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date

In addition to the idiom beginning with date also see bring up to date; double date; make a date; out of date; to date; up to date.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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