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DATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does date mean?
• DATE (noun)
The noun DATE has 7 senses:
1. the specified day of the month
2. a participant in a date
3. a meeting arranged in advance
4. the present
5. the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred
6. a particular day specified as the time something happens
7. sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
Familiarity information: DATE used as a noun is common.
• DATE (verb)
The verb DATE has 5 senses:
1. go on a date with
2. stamp with a date
3. assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
4. date regularly; have a steady relationship with
5. provide with a dateline; mark with a date
Familiarity information: DATE used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The specified day of the month
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
date; day of the month
Context example:
what is the date today?
Hypernyms ("date" is a kind of...):
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "date"):
due date; maturity; maturity date (the date on which an obligation must be repaid)
birthday; natal day (the date on which a person was born)
Instance hyponyms:
6 June 1944; D-day (date of the Allied landing in France, World War II)
Derivation:
date (assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of)
date (provide with a dateline; mark with a date)
date (stamp with a date)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A participant in a date
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
date; escort
Context example:
his date never stopped talking
Hypernyms ("date" is a kind of...):
associate; companion; comrade; familiar; fellow (a friend who is frequently in the company of another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "date"):
blind date (a participant in a blind date (someone you meet for the first time when you have a date with them))
Holonyms ("date" is a member of...):
appointment; date; engagement (a meeting arranged in advance)
Derivation:
date (go on a date with)
date (date regularly; have a steady relationship with)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A meeting arranged in advance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
appointment; date; engagement
Context example:
she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date
Hypernyms ("date" is a kind of...):
get together; meeting (a small informal social gathering)
Meronyms (members of "date"):
date; escort (a participant in a date)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "date"):
blind date (a date with a stranger)
double date (a date in which two couples participate)
rendezvous; tryst (a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex)
Derivation:
date (date regularly; have a steady relationship with)
date (go on a date with)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The present
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context example:
we haven't heard from them to date
Hypernyms ("date" is a kind of...):
nowadays; present (the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context example:
he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class
Hypernyms ("date" is a kind of...):
calendar day; civil day (a day reckoned from midnight to midnight)
calendar year; civil year (the year (reckoned from January 1 to December 31) according to Gregorian calendar)
calendar month; month (one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "date"):
date of reference; epoch ((astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded)
Derivation:
date (assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A particular day specified as the time something happens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context example:
Mother's Day is always on the same date
Hypernyms ("date" is a kind of...):
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "date"):
future date (a particular day in the future that is specified as the time something will happen)
sell-by date (a date stamped on perishable produce indicating the date by which it should be sold)
rain date (an alternative date set for some outdoor event in case it rains on the appointed date)
Derivation:
date (assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of)
date (provide with a dateline; mark with a date)
date (stamp with a date)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("date" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
Holonyms ("date" is a part of...):
date palm; Phoenix dactylifera (tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it dates Past simple: dated
Past participle: dated
-ing form: dating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Go on a date with
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Context example:
Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart
Hypernyms (to "date" is one way to...):
go out (leave the house to go somewhere)
Verb group:
date; go out; go steady; see (date regularly; have a steady relationship with)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "date"):
double-date (go out on a date with a partner and another couple)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
date (a meeting arranged in advance)
date (a participant in a date)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Stamp with a date
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
date; date stamp
Context example:
The package is dated November 24
Hypernyms (to "date" is one way to...):
date (provide with a dateline; mark with a date)
stamp (to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
date (the specified day of the month)
date (a particular day specified as the time something happens)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Context example:
Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings
Hypernyms (to "date" is one way to...):
determine; set (fix conclusively or authoritatively)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "date"):
chronologise; chronologize (establish the order in time of something)
misdate (assign the wrong date to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
date (the specified day of the month)
dating (use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens)
date (the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred)
date (a particular day specified as the time something happens)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Date regularly; have a steady relationship with
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
Context example:
He is dating his former wife again!
Hypernyms (to "date" is one way to...):
affiliate; associate; assort; consort (keep company with; hang out with)
Verb group:
date (go on a date with)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence examples:
Sam and Sue date
Sam cannot date Sue
Derivation:
date (a meeting arranged in advance)
date (a participant in a date)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Provide with a dateline; mark with a date
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Context example:
She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated
Hypernyms (to "date" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "date"):
date-mark; dateline; datemark (mark with a date and place)
date; date stamp (stamp with a date)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
date (the specified day of the month)
date (a particular day specified as the time something happens)
Context examples
The other four tombs are believed to date from the Old Kingdom period and are thus at least 4000 years old.
(Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover One-Of-A-Kind Tomb South of Cairo, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The second line of research has used radiocarbon dating to analyze the age at which 44 individuals died.
(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)
Several characteristics of each tombstone were recorded, including rock type, length of tombstone exposure (based on date of death), direction of the sampled face (cardinal direction) and surface texture (polished or unpolished).
(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)
The Gilgamesh Flood story is known from clay tablets that date back around three thousand years.
(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)
Most examples of trade, human overexploitation, and extinction of local marine resources from overfishing and commercial whaling are from more recent dates.
(Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement, National Science Foundation)
The Cambridge-led team pinpointed the date of the eruption using ice core records from Greenland that preserve the volcanic fallout from Eldgjá.
(Volcanic eruption influenced Iceland’s conversion to Christianity, University of Cambridge)
To date, CO2 has only been converted into a solid at extremely high temperatures, making it industrially unviable.
(Scientists Turn CO2 into Solid Coal, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
To date, the Northern Hemisphere has accounted for about 90 percent of global atmospheric dust emissions.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
To date, scientists have discovered only three gas giants which revolves around M-dwarf stars.
(Astronomers report dwarf star with unexpectedly giant planet, Wikinews)
The tombs date back about 3,500 years and are located on the west bank of the river Nile.
(Discovery of Two Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Announced in Egypt, VOA)
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