date

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date

She carefully places a fresh date on the small plate beside her cup of tea.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A sweet edible fruit: A small, brown, oval fruit from the date palm tree, with a single hard seed inside.
    • A specific day: A particular day of the month or year, often given by a number (e.g., May 5, 2023).
    • An appointment or social meeting: A planned time to meet someone, especially a romantic meeting between two people.
    • The person you meet romantically: The person with whom you have a romantic appointment.

  2. Verb:

    • To write a date on something: To mark something with the day, month, and year.
    • To determine the age or time period of something: To find out when something old was made or happened.
    • To go out with someone romantically: To regularly spend time with someone as a romantic partner.
    • To become old-fashioned: To seem or become out of date.
Examples
  • Noun (Fruit):
    • She ate a sweet date for a snack.
  • Noun (Specific Day):
    • What is the date of your birthday?
    • The date on the letter was smudged.
  • Noun (Romantic Meeting):
    • They went on a date to the cinema.
  • Noun (Romantic Partner):
    • My date was very polite.
  • Verb (Write a date):
    • Please date and sign the document.
  • Verb (Determine age):
    • Scientists can date these bones to the Stone Age.
  • Verb (Go out romantically):
    • Is he dating anyone?
  • Verb (Become old-fashioned):
    • That style of music has dated badly.
Advanced Usage
  • "To date": Until now.
    • To date, we have received fifty applications.
  • "Out of date": No longer valid, modern, or useful; expired.
    • This milk is out of date.
    • His information is out of date.
  • "Up to date": Modern, current, or having the latest information.
    • Keep your software up to date.
    • Are you up to date with the news?
  • "Date back to": To have existed since a particular time in the past.
    • This tradition dates back to the 18th century.
Variants and Related Words
  • Dated (adj): Old-fashioned.
    • His clothes look very dated.
  • Dater (n): A person who goes on dates.
  • Dateline (n): A line in a newspaper article showing the date and place of writing.
  • Date palm (n): The tree that produces dates.
Synonyms
  • Noun (Day): Day, point in time.
  • Noun (Meeting): Appointment, rendezvous, engagement.
  • Verb (Determine age): Assign a date to, ascertain the age of.
  • Verb (Go out with): See, go out with, court.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Date back to (phrasal verb): To have originated in a particular past time.
    • The castle dates back to the Norman era.
  • Date from (phrasal verb): Same as "date back to".
    • The artifact dates from the Bronze Age.
Related Idioms
  • "Blind date": A date between two people who have not met before, arranged by a third person.
    • My friend set me up on a blind date.
  • "Double date": A social outing where two couples go together.
    • We went on a double date with our friends.
  • "Make a date": To arrange to meet someone.
    • Let's make a date for lunch next week.
  • "At a later date": At some unspecified time in the future.
    • We will discuss this at a later date.
date

She carefully places a fresh date on the small plate beside her cup of tea.

Noun
  1. sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
  2. a particular day specified as the time something happens
    • the date of the election is set by law
  3. 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
  4. the present
    • they are up to date
    • we haven't heard from them to date
  5. a particular but unspecified point in time
    • they hoped to get together at an early date
  6. a meeting arranged in advance
    • she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date
  7. a participant in a date
    • his date never stopped talking
  8. the specified day of the month
    • what is the date today?
Verb
  1. 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
  2. date regularly; have a steady relationship with
    • Did you know that she is seeing an older man?
    • He is dating his former wife again!
  3. assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
    • Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings
  4. stamp with a date
    • The package is dated November 24
  5. go on a date with
    • Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart

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