date

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The cam will usually have a finger that then flicks forward a date wheel.

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Quick take

the specified day of the month; "what is the date today?"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of date gathered in one view.

noun

the specified day of the month; "what is the date today?"

noun

a participant in a date; "his date never stopped talking"

noun

a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for date.

noun

the specified day of the month; "what is the date today?"

noun

a participant in a date; "his date never stopped talking"

noun

a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"

noun

a particular but unspecified point in time; "they hoped to get together at an early date"

noun

the present; "they are up to date"; "we haven't heard from them to date"

noun

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"

noun

a particular day specified as the time something happens; "the date of the election is set by law"

noun

sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed

verb

go on a date with; "Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart"

verb

stamp with a date; "The package is dated November 24"

verb

assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of; "Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings"

verb

date regularly; have a steady relationship with; "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his former wife again!"

verb

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"

Example sentences

The cam will usually have a finger that then flicks forward a date wheel.

[Update:] So, the background here is that 1099 reporting rules changed last year.

This is referred to as "swearing behind" the Hillis patent's filing date [3].

To date most all-electric vehicles have struggled in the cold.

Bluray is not reliable if users don't keep their hardware/software up to date.

"Nobody picks a date and says "from that point on, I'm going to grow up and lose my sense of wonder", but still it happens.

But the Apple inventors' filing date is January 2007; swearing behind that far would be a real challenge.

If I didn't complete some odd tasks he assigned me by a certain date, I'd be sure not to have a place at Facebook after that date.

You need a much better design for your website and your purchasing decisions to date lack business accumen.

The law is designed to accommodate the practical needs of companies that want to raise capital.

In responding to the rejection, Apple can try to establish that their inventors predated Hillis's November 2005 filing date.

The course of post between Taiwan and Minnesota in those days was a week or less, so after a while each weekly letter would take the form of including a phrase like "This is letter number 12, replying to your letter number 10, which I received on [date]" and so on.