Date Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0

date n
1. the specified day of the month; "what is the date today?" [syn: day of the month]
2. a particular day specified as the time something will happen; "the date of the election is set by law"
3. a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date" [syn: appointment, engagement]
4. a particular but unspecified point in time; "they hoped to get together at an early date"
5. the present; "they are up to date"; "we haven't heard from them to date"
6. a participant in a date; "his date never stopped talking" [syn: escort]
7. 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"
8. sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed v
9. go on a date with; "Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart"
10. stamp with a date; "The package is dated November 24" [syn: date stamp]
11. assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of; "Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings"
12. date regularly; have a steady relationship with; "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his former wife again!" [syn: go steady, go out, see]
13. 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"

Date Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date \Date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dating.] [Cf. F. dater. See 2d Date.]
1. To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.
2. To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids. Note: We may say dated at or from a place. The letter is dated at Philadephia. --G. T. Curtis. You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois. --Addison. In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them. --M. Arnold.

Date Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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* When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions-were we truly men of courage ... were we truly men of judgment ... were we truly men of integrity ... were we truly men of dedication - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

* What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. - Albert Camus

* Harriet What do you look for in a woman you date Charlie Well, I know everyone always says sense of humor, but I'd really have to go with breast size. - So I Married an Axe Murderer


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