date
part of speech
noun (date, dates); verb (date, dates, dated, dating)
meaning for a pupil
1) A date is the day, month and year when something happens or happened. tree →
2) A date is a sweet brown fruit from a palm tree. tree →
3) A date is a plan to meet someone, often a romantic outing. tree →
4) To date something is to write the date on it, or to find out how old it is. tree →
5) Out of date means old or no longer good to use; up to date means new and current. tree →
sense in the lessons
a day on a calendar, used to count days between; or a sweet fruit that is counted or weighed; in school: write the date at the top of your work; in history: dates show when events happened, in order on a timeline; in science: scientists date fossils and rocks; in safety and health: check the use-by date on food; phrases: «up to date», «out of date», «use-by date», «date of birth»
examples
- A MSS. copy dated 1719, in the British Museum. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- There is also a good German translation, by Johann Friedrich von Meyer, dated 1830. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- C, but it is supposed that it was in use at a much earlii r date. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- Mark the date of the party on the calendar. tree →
- How many days are there between the two dates? tree →
- She bought 500 g of dates. tree →
- A box holds 20 dates. tree →
- Write the date at the top of your page. tree →
- Put the events on the timeline in order of date. tree →
- This milk is out of date, don't drink it. tree →
- Dates grow on palm trees in hot countries. tree →
- Scientists dated the fossil to millions of years ago. tree →
- ‘To day the people may eat the dates.’ tree →
note
A calendar date asks to count days or weeks between; a fruit date is just a thing counted. Trap: counting days from one date to another, do not count the first day unless the problem says so. Dates are written in a different order in the USA (month first) and the UK, Australia or Ireland (day first).
In the corpora
- Date night is when a couple goes out together, just the two of them, which keeps their friendship strong.
- At the bottom are the facts: dates, official statements from the Palace, things filmed for everyone to see.
- Before believing a shocking story, look it up on a proper news site, and check its date.
- A bot's knowledge may be out of date about matches, events and dates, and it may not search the web.
- Some things you simply cannot know from your lessons, such as today's real date.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «date» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.