Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The time stated in terms of the day, month, and year.
- noun A statement of calendar time, as on a document.
- noun A particular point or period of time at which something happened or existed, or is expected to happen.
- noun The years of someone's birth and death.
- noun The time during which something lasts; duration.
- noun The time or historical period to which something belongs.
- noun An appointment: synonym: engagement.
- noun An engagement to go out socially with another person, often out of romantic interest.
- noun One's companion on such an outing.
- noun An engagement for a performance.
- intransitive verb To mark or supply with a date.
- intransitive verb To determine the date of.
- intransitive verb To betray the age of.
- intransitive verb To go on a date or dates with.
- intransitive verb To have origin in a particular time in the past.
- intransitive verb To become old-fashioned.
- intransitive verb To go on dates.
- idiom (out of date) No longer in style; old-fashioned.
- idiom (to date) Until now.
- idiom (up to date) In or into accordance with current information, styles, or technology.
- noun The sweet, edible, oblong or oval fruit of the date palm, containing a narrow, hard seed.
- noun A date palm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A grant; concession; gift.
- noun The fruit of the date-palm, Phœnix dactylifera, used extensively as an article of food by the natives of northern Africa and of some countries of Asia.
- To mark with a date, as a letter or other writing. See
date , n. - To note or fix the time of, as of an event or transaction; assign a date or time of occurrence to: as, to
date an event in ancient history. - To have a date: as, the letter dates from Rome. See I.
- To have beginning; derive origin.
- To use a date in reckoning; reckon from some point in time.
- noun That part of a writing or an inscription which purports to specify the time when, and usually the place where, it was executed.
- noun The time, with more or less particularity, when some event has happened or is to happen: as, the date of a battle; the dates of birth and death on a monument; the date of Easter varies from year to year, or is variable.
- noun Point or period of time in general: as, at that early date.
- noun A season or allotted period of time.
- noun Age; number of years.
- noun Duration; continuance.
- noun End; conclusion.
- noun A day-book, journal, or diary.
- noun For secret meetings, especially for an immoral purpose; make assignations.
- noun An occasional name in California of the fanleaf palm, Neowashingtonia filamentosa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
- noun (Bot.) the genus of palms which bear dates, of which common species is
Phœnix dactylifera . SeeIllust. - noun (Bot.) the fruit of several species of Diospyros, including the American and Japanese persimmons, and the European lotus (
Diospyros Lotus ). - noun (Zoöl.) a bivalve shell, or its inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See
Pholas . - intransitive verb To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with
from . - noun That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made. etc.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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** We went out on one what could be consider a date date*** but we hung out quite a bit.
drbigbeef Diary Entry drbigbeef 2007
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Milizia, when in doubt about the date of Alberti's birth, did not go too far in saying "_disgrazia grande per chi si trova la sua felicità nelle date_."
Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905
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* Format user date for the Upcoming Birthday Mod function format_dateucb ($date, $format = false) $lang_dates = $this-lang [ 'datetime'];
phpBB.com ibelphegor 2010
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Submission of the registration for saves the date into a mysql table (date field) the following way: $date = date ( "Y-m-d");
Digital Point Forums 2009
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($year, $month, $date) for the next date, or undef when finished.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010
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($year, $month, $date) for the next date, or undef when finished.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010
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$sql = ( "INSERT INTO $db_bvis SET id = '', bid = '$getid', ip = '$_SERVER [REMOTE_ADDR]', date = '$date', browser = '$browser'");
DaniWeb IT Discussion Community bjice 2010
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* % date% - The date the item was published or, if not available, the current date.
Digital Point Forums alex190 2010
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$sql = ( "INSERT INTO $db_bvis SET id = '', bid = '$getid', ip = '$_SERVER [REMOTE_ADDR]', date = '$date', browser = '$browser'");
DaniWeb IT Discussion Community bjice 2010
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$date = date ( "F j, Y, g: i a", $topic_last_post_time);
phpBB.com SpongeWeb 2010
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