What is the difference between date and dating?

As nouns the difference between date and dating

is that 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 while dating is a form of romantic courtship typically between two individuals with the aim of assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse. The result of dating may at any time lead to friendship, any level of intimate relationship, marriage, or no relation.

As verbs the difference between date and dating

is that date is to note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution while dating is present participle of lang=en.

date

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) datte, from (etyl) dactylus, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

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.

We made a nice cake from dates .

The date palm.

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)

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

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.

* 1681 , (John Dryden), The Spanish Friar

And bonds without a date , they say, are void.

The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle. A specific day.

the date for pleading

* 1844 , (Mark Akenside), (The Pleasures of the Imagination), Book II

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.

A point in time

You may need that at a later date .

(rare) Assigned end; conclusion.

* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope),

What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date .

(obsolete) Given or assigned length of life; duration.

* (rfdate) (Edmund Spenser),

Good luck prolonged hath thy date .

* (rfdate) (George Chapman) (translator), (Homer) (author), (w) , Volume 1, Book IV, lines 282–5,

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.

A pre-arranged social meeting.

I arranged a date with my Australian business partners.

A companion when one is partaking in a social occasion.

I brought Melinda to the wedding as my date .

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

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)

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

* (rfdate) (Joseph Addison)

You will be surprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois.

* 1801 [1796 January], (William Cobbett), A New Year's Gift'', ''Porcupine's works , footnote, 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.

* 1913 [1863], (Marcus Aurelius), , G. Bell and Sons, 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.

To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of.

To determine the age of something.

To take (someone) on a series of dates.

To have a steady relationship with, to be romantically involved with.

* 2008 May 15, NEWS.com.au , "Jessica Simpson upset John Mayer dating Jennifer Aniston":

Jessica Simpson reportedly went on a drinking binge after discovering ex-boyfriend John Mayer is dating Jennifer Aniston.

Of a couple, to be in a romantic relationship.

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

To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.

* (rfdate) (Edward Everett)

The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}

Usage notes

* To note the time of writing one may say dated at' or ' from a place.

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dating

English

Noun

(en noun)

A form of romantic courtship typically between two individuals with the aim of assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse. The result of dating may at any time lead to friendship, any level of intimate relationship, marriage, or no relation.

An estimation of the age of an artifact, biological vestige, linguistic usage, etc.

* 1922' (Jul), , "Some aspects of the use of the annual rings of trees in climatic study". ''The Scientific Monthly'' ' 15 (1): 5-21.

A comparison in seven sequoias between very careful counting and accurate dating in 2,000 years shows an average counting error of 35 years, which is only 1.7 per cent.

* 1991 , Onno Ydema, Carpets and Their Dating in Netherlandish Paintings, 1540-1700 , page 120,

Finally, with the exception of the rug in the paintings of Willem Duyster, the datings of both groups approximately agree;

* 1998 , Niels Lynnerup, The Greenland Norse , footnote, page 46,

The results almost always used to illustrate this are the datings of human bones from the Sct. Drotten Church in Lund.

* 2007 , Anatoly Fomenko, History: Fiction or Science?: Chronology 1 , page 73,

Different dendrochronological datings' have different veracity. The veracity of a dendrochronological ' dating depends on the certainty of the collations on the dendrochronological scale.

The setting of a date on which an event or transaction is to take place or take effect.

* 1967 , Delbert J. Duncan, Charles Franklin Phillips, Retailing: Principles and Methods , page 352,

But C.O.D. datings are relatively rare. They are so disliked by buyers that they are used by sellers only when the latter are quite uncertain of a buyer's ability and willingness to pay.

* 1999 , Alexander M. Hicks, Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism , page 227,

Pressure from unemployment for retrenchment is evident for the "early" as well as "best" datings' of retrenchment. However, when retrenchment '''datings''' lean toward earlier years, unemployment is not the preeminent factor among the various accelerators and decelerators of retrenchment that it is for the more balanced "best" '''datings''' of Table 7.2 (or that it is, as we shall see, for the "late" ' datings ).

* 2008 , R. Charles Moyer, James R. McGuigan, William J. Kretlow, Contemporary Financial Management , page 630,

Seasonal datings are special credit terms that are sometimes offered to retailers when sales are highly concentrated in one or more periods during the year.