date
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English date, from Old French date, datil, datille, from Latin dactylus (likely via Old Provençal datil), from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”) (from the resemblance of the date to a human finger), probably a folk-etymological alteration of a word from a Semitic source such as Arabic دَقَل (daqal, “variety of date palm”) or Hebrew דֶּקֶל (deqel, “date palm”). Doublet of dactyl and dactylus.
Inflected forms:
form: dates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
pos: noun
examples: We made a nice cake from dates.
gloss: The date palm.
pos: noun
examples: There were a few dates planted around the house.
gloss: The anus.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: The bullet took the middle finger of his right hand clean off […]. ‘He sure won't be sticking that finger up his date again,’ said Max.
Black Superman could kiss his date, the little faggot.
gloss: To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter
You will be surprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois.
I keep to the very words of the letter; but that, by "this State," is meant the State of Pennsylvania, cannot be doubted, especially when we see that the letter is dated at Philadelphia.
In these countries much of his Journal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them; and there, a few weeks before his fifty-ninth birthday, he fell sick and died.
gloss: To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The writer dates the festival on June 21st, which is probably a mistake.
gloss: To determine the age of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to date the building of the pyramids
gloss: To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: Jessica Simpson reportedly went on a drinking binge after discovering ex-boyfriend John Mayer is dating Jennifer Aniston.
gloss: To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
reciprocal
examples: They met a couple of years ago, but have been dating for about five months.
gloss: To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: This show hasn't dated well.
The comedian dated himself by making quips about bands from the 1960s.
In these days of decimalization and metrication it is a pity that SI units were not used as this will date a very useful little book prematurely.
gloss: To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.
He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
Synonyms: date
go out [with]
go with
go together
hang together
have a thing
see
step out
Related words: Sabbath
calendar
make a move [on]
make a play [for]
make time
courtship
woo
Derived words: Chinese date
date bread
date fish
datelike
date mussel
date-nut bread
date palm
date plum
date shell
date tree
misdate
outdate
overdate
postdate
update
antedate
backdate
crossdate
dateable
date back
date-me doc
date out
date up
downdate
foredate
online date
predate
redate
retrodate
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