dateline

Thân thiện

The editor added a dateline to the top of the news story.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A line at the beginning of a news article: A dateline is a line of text at the start of a news story that states the date and the place from which the report was filed.
   • An imaginary line on the Earth's surface: The dateline (often capitalized as Dateline or used in International Date Line) is an imaginary line following approximately the 180th meridian. Crossing it changes the calendar date.

2. Verb:

   • To mark with a date and place: To dateline means to provide a news article or document with a line indicating its date and place of origin.

Usage Examples

• Noun (News):

  • The article's dateline read "LONDON, March 15."
  • A dateline helps readers understand where and when a reporter was writing from.

• Noun (Geography):

  • When you fly from Tokyo to San Francisco, you cross the International Date Line.
  • The dateline runs roughly through the Pacific Ocean.

• Verb:

  • The correspondent datelined the dispatch "from the front lines."
  • Make sure to dateline all press releases correctly.

Advanced Usage

• "to bear a dateline": To have a dateline included.

  • The historic report bore a dateline from a war-torn city.

• "dateline story": A news story identified by its place and date of origin.

  • She filed a compelling dateline story from the climate conference.

Variants and Related Words

• International Date Line (IDL) (n): The specific imaginary line where the date changes.

  • Fiji is located just west of the International Date Line.

• Byline (n): A line naming the author of an article, often appearing near the dateline.

  • The article featured both a byline and a dateline.

Synonyms

• For the news line: Date-and-place line, origin line.
• For the geographical line: International Date Line, 180th meridian (approximately).

Related Phrases

• "Across the dateline": Referring to communication or travel between locations on opposite sides of the International Date Line.
  • It's already tomorrow for her; she lives across the dateline.

Idioms

• "To cross the dateline": To travel across the International Date Line, resulting in a change of calendar date.
  • We lost a day after we crossed the dateline on our flight.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch
2. an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian

Verb

1. mark with a date and place
   • dateline a newspaper article

Từ đồng nghĩa

• date line
• International Date Line
• datemark
• date-mark