date

date1 [ deıt ] noun ***

1. ) count the name and number of a particular day or year:

The date on the report is October 24, 1998.

today's date: What's today's date? The 25th.

a ) count a particular day, month, or year when something happens:

I made a note of the date and time of his arrival.

date of: The precise date of the book's publication is not yet known.

set/fix a date (=choose it): Should we set a date for the next meeting?

b ) singular a time in the past or future:

at a later/future date: The exact details of the plan will be worked out at a later date.

at an earlier date: Johnson had agreed at an earlier date to take on the role of chairman.

=> DATE OF BIRTH, USE-BY DATE

2. ) count an arrangement to meet someone you are having or starting a sexual or romantic relationship with:

have a date (with someone): I have a date with one of the guys from my class tonight.

go (out) on a date (with someone): Phil called me last night, and we're going on a date this evening.

a ) someone you have arranged to meet as part of a sexual or romantic relationship:

So come on, tell us, who's your date this evening?

b ) make a date (with someone) to arrange to meet someone on a particular day

3. ) count a sweet brown sticky fruit with a hard narrow seed inside that grows on PALM trees

to date FORMAL

until now:

There have been no reports of the animal being seen to date.

=> OUT-OF-DATE, UP-TO-DATE

date

date 2 [ deıt ] verb ***

▸ 1 have relationship with someone

▸ 2 write date on something

▸ 3 discover how old something is

▸ 4 seem no longer modern

▸ 5 show you are getting old

▸ + PHRASES

1. ) intransitive or transitive if you and another person are dating, or if you are dating someone, the two of you are having a sexual or romantic relationship with each other:

They've been dating for over six months now.

At college he had dated a medical student from Kansas.

2. ) transitive to write the date on something:

The letter was dated February 23.

3. ) transitive to discover exactly how old something is or when it was made by examining it carefully or making scientific tests:

The paintings have not been accurately dated yet.

4. ) intransitive to seem no longer modern or fashionable:

a style of building that has hardly dated at all

5. ) transitive to prove that you are starting to get old or are older than the people you are talking to:

I suppose that attitude really dates me!

,date `back to phrasal verb transitive

date back to something to be made or begun at a particular time in the past:

a large collection of records dating back to the 1950s

`date from phrasal verb transitive

date from something to be made at a particular time in the past:

These sculptures must date from the middle of the 7th century.