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| date [ dayt ] |
noun (plural dates) |
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1. day, month, and year: a phrase or string of numbers that denotes a specific day of the month or year. It usually consists of the name or number of the month, the number of the day, and the number of the year.
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2. time of event: a date used to locate a past or future event in time
  The concert has been postponed to a later date.
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3. visual representation of date: the words or numbers of a date in the form of a written statement or inscription, e.g. on a document or coin
There's no date on this letter.
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4. period of time: the period during which something such as a work of art was created
This has much in common with other artifacts of the same date.
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5. appointment: an appointment to meet somebody for a social or business activity
I've got a dinner date with a client.
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6. romantic appointment: a romantic engagement with somebody
I thought we had a date tonight.
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7. partner on date: somebody with whom a date has been arranged
My date stood me up.
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8. performing arts commitment to perform: an engagement to give a performance
Our band has a date to play at the Coliseum.
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plural noun dates |
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dates of birth and death: the years of somebody's birth and death
Do you happen to know Thomas Jefferson's dates?
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verb (past and past participle dat·ed, present participle dat·ing, 3rd person present singular dates) |
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1. transitive verb put date on something: to mark something with a date, usually the current date
Please sign and date the contract.
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2. transitive verb assign date to something: to find out or state the time or period when something was made
The early works of Shakespeare are difficult to date precisely.
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3. intransitive verb originate: to have an origin in a particular time in the past
We have family records dating back to the 16th century.
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4. intransitive verb go out of style: to become old-fashioned
This is a classic style and won't date.
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5. transitive verb make somebody or something seem old: to reveal the age of somebody or something, or make somebody or something seem old-fashioned
The shape of the headlights dates the car.
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6. transitive and intransitive verb go on dates with somebody: to go out regularly with somebody as a romantic partner
We dated for a few months.
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| [14th century. < medieval Latin data< past participle of Latin dare "give, grant"; from uses such as (epistola) data Romae "(letter) given at Rome," with the day and month appended] |
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| dat·a·ble adjective |
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to date up to the present time
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