Word Finder - dates

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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.

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We made a nice cake from dates.

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The date palm.

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There were a few dates planted around the house.

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The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.

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the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc.

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A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.

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Do you know the date of the wedding?

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A point in time.

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You may need that at a later date.

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Assigned end; conclusion.

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Given or assigned length of life; duration.

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A pre-arranged meeting.

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I arranged a date with my Australian business partners.

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One's companion for social activities or occasions.

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I brought Melinda to the wedding as my date.

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A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.

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The cinema is a popular place to take someone on a date.

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To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.

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to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter

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To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.

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To determine the age of something.

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to date the building of the pyramids

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To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.

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(by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.

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(by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.

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They met a couple of years ago, but have been dating for about five months.

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To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.

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The comedian dated himself by making quips about bands from the 1960s.

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(with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.

She added, "It dates back to when you were in shape."

It dates from the depression.

Maybe she should accept a few dates now and then.

Fred stage-whispered to Dean that the sixth was one of the dates when Byrne was in Scranton.

That dates back to before we were married.

Do you really think I'd tell them about my dates? she retorted.

The earliest written record of the introduction of domesticated cats into Great Britain dates from about A.D.

Of the church in Ostia there is no authentic record before the 4th century A.D., though there are several Christian inscriptions of an earlier date; but the first bishop of Ostia of whom we have any certain knowledge dates from A.D.

Weighty reasons are brought also by conservative writers against the theory that Deuteronomy dates from or about the age of Josiah, and their objections to the " discovery " of a new law-roll apply equally to the " re-discovery " and promulgation of an old and authentic code.

A Paul Weber crossed in and out of the great north on the dates I ran.

The dates a motor home made the trip in and out stack up perfectly.

I cleverly deduced the location, checked birth dates and newly arrived individuals.

The time frame and dates seemed to fit, but that's a mighty long stretch.

The dates were all from the past week, and she recognized two of the originating net codes as being from Mr. Tim and General Greene.

The reports went back nearly three years and listed dates, locations and dollars expended, with each entry carefully and man­ually recording names, locations, reasons for visits and persons present.

There was a log listing mileage and dates in a variety of dif­ferent handwritings.

Cleary had bumped into him only twice, maybe three times but he had no recollection of the dates.

My high school girl-boy-how-to book said I should be coy and turn down all last-minute dates.

That old idea dates back to prearranged marriages, when the groom had never seen the bride.

Their dates had been modest, but was that by preference, or because he had limited funding?

We're fuzzy on the dates and times, but he's planning something tonight and Friday afternoon.

The church of the Holy Trinity, the oldest part of which dates from about 1 200, is a Gothic building with five aisles and a square tower.

The site of the church of St Peter has long been occupied by a parish church (there was one in the 12th century, if not earlier), but the existing building dates only from 1870.

Colon dates its origin from the year 1850, when the island of Manzanillo was selected as the Atlantic terminus of the Panama railway.

The foundation is commonly dated from this year and not from 1448, when Magdalen Hall was founded, though if not dated from 1448 it surely dates from 1458, when that hall and St John's Hospital were converted into Magdalen College.

It was not completed, however, till the 19th century, when the west portal and towers and two bays of the nave were added, according to the plans of Violletle-Duc. The fine stained glass of the windows dates from the 13th to the 15th centuries.

It dates from 1817 and bears the name of its founder, James Duff, 4th earl of Fife.

It dates from the 11th century, and once belonged to the Ogilvies, from whom it passed in 1535 to the Gordons.

The main road system, which dates from 1828, previous to which there were only tracks, is good, and the roads well engineered; many of them are traversed daily by post vehicles.

The collegiate church (Stiftskirche) dates from about 1340, and contains a number of fine ducal monuments.

Plato, while admiring Pericles' intellect, accuses him of pandering to the mob; Aristotle in his Politics and especially in the Constitution of Athens, which is valuable in that it gives the dates of Pericles' enactments as derived from an official document, accepts the same view.

The church of St James dates from 1763, and the other numerous places of worship and public buildings are all modern.

The latter selected a position a few hundred yards to the north-east of the old city of Chung-tu or Yenking, where he founded the new city of Ta-tu ("great capital"), called by the Mongols Taidu or Daitu, but also KhanBalik; and from this time dates the use of the latter name as applied to this site.

These fairs have been held without interruption till the present day, their dates being October 2 and May 13.

In the highlands, where some fertile upland tracts produce corn, dates and other fruits, the climate is genial, but elsewhere it is extremely sultry, and on the low-lying coast lands malarious.

For this patron several of his treatises were written; and the commencement of his Canon of Medicine also dates from his stay in Hyrcania.

These dates are valuable as enabling us to fix approximately the date of his birth, which must have occurred somewhere about 1370.

The Troy-book, undertaken at the command of Henry V., then prince of Wales, dates from 1412-1420; the Story of Thebes from 1420-1422; and the Falls of Princes towards 1430.

Corresponding to the first two Edinburgh editions, copies were issued bearing the London imprint and dates 1594 and 1611.

The monastic buildings have practically disappeared, but the church was a splendid building of various dates from Norman to Decorated, the choir and Lady chapel representing the later period.

Giovanni Evangelista, which was founded along with the Benedictine monastery in 981, but as a building dates from 1510, and has a façade erected by Simone Moschino early in the 17th century.

Communications.-The development of railways in Argentina, which dates from 1857 when the construction of the Buenos Aires Western was begun, was at first slow and hesitating, but after 1880 it went forward rapidly.

Each of these companies was allotted a definite sphere of influence, and was granted a concession for ninety-nine years from its date of formation, the concessions thus terminating at various dates between 1950 and 1960.

The infantry, which wasthe first in Europe to be armed with the magazine rifle, still carries this, the Lebel, rifle which dates from 1886.

It follows, therefore, that the maritime importance of the island dates back to pre-Dorian times.

To the east, on the summit of the height, is the cathedral of St Carthagh, of various dates.

Modern criticism of the history of Sabbath observance among the Hebrews has done nothing more than follow out these arguments in detail, and show that the result is in agreement with what is known as to the dates of the several component parts of the Pentateuch.

An old mansion called the Priory dates in part from 1393.

It contains models of the principal dockyards and fortifications of the British empire, naval models of all dates, and numerous specimens of weapons of war from the remotest times to the present day.

Its foundation dates from the year 1030, while the nave is Romanesque of the middle of the 12th century, with much pointed work.