As verbs the difference between date and dated
is that date is to note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution while dated is past tense of date.
As a noun date
is the fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
As an adjective dated is
marked with a date.
Etymology 1
From (etyl) datte, from (etyl) dactylus, from (etyl) .
Noun
(en noun)
- We made a nice cake from dates .
- There were a few dates planted around the house.
Derived terms
* date fish* date mussel* date palm* date plum* date shell* date tree
Etymology 2
From (etyl) date, and Die.
Noun
(en noun)
- the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc.
- US date''' : 05/24/08 = Tuesday, May 24th, 2008. UK '''date : 24/05/08 = Tuesday 24th May 2008.
- And bonds without a date , they say, are void.
- the date for pleading
- He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fix'd the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest.
- Do you know the date of the wedding?
- We had to change the dates of the festival because of the flooding.
- You may need that at a later date .
- What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date .
- Good luck prolonged hath thy date .
- As now Saturnius, through his life's whole date ,
- Hath Nestor's bliss raised to as steep a state,
- Both in his age to keep in peace his house,
- And to have children wise and valorous.
- I arranged a date with my Australian business partners.
- I brought Melinda to the wedding as my date .
- We really hit it off on the first date , so we decided to meet the week after.
- We slept together on the first date .
- The cinema is a popular place to take someone on a date .
Derived terms
** blind date* date night* date of birth* date rape* double date* due date* expiry date, expiration date* sell-by date* speed date* transaction date* use-by date
Descendants
* German:
Verb
(dat)
- You will be surprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois.
page 430,
- I keep to the very words of the letter; but that, by "this State," is meant the State of Pennsylvania, cannot be doubted, especially when we see that the letter is dated at Philadelphia.
page 227,
- In these countries much of his Journal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them; and there, a few weeks before his fifty-ninth birthday, he fell sick and died.
- Jessica Simpson reportedly went on a drinking binge after discovering ex-boyfriend John Mayer is dating Jennifer Aniston.
- The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.
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Usage notes
* To note the time of writing one may say dated at' or ' from a place.
Statistics
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Anagrams
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Adjective
Synonyms
* old fashioned* retro
Antonyms
* (out of date) up to date
Verb
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