Date vs History - What's the difference?
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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.
The date palm.
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.
* 1681 , (John Dryden), The Spanish Friar
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.
* 1844 , (Mark Akenside), (The Pleasures of the Imagination), Book II
A point in time
(rare) Assigned end; conclusion.
* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope),
(obsolete) Given or assigned length of life; duration.
* (rfdate) (Edmund Spenser),
* (rfdate) (George Chapman) (translator), (Homer) (author), (w) , Volume 1, Book IV, lines 282–5,
A pre-arranged social meeting.
A companion when one is partaking in a social occasion.
A meeting with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
* (rfdate) (Joseph Addison)
* 1801 [1796 January], (William Cobbett), A New Year's Gift'', ''Porcupine's works , footnote,
* 1913 [1863], (Marcus Aurelius), , G. Bell and Sons,
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":
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)
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, title= The aggregate of past events.
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, title= The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
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A record or narrative description of past events.
A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
(informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
Shared experience or interaction.
(obsolete) To narrate or record.
As nouns the difference between date and history
is that date is while history is the aggregate of past events.As a verb history is
(obsolete) to narrate or record.date
English
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 treeEtymology 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 dateDescendants
* 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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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.Statistics
*Anagrams
* ----history
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Alternative forms
* historie (obsolete) * hystory (nonstandard) * hystorie (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia history) (wikiversity history lecture)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
Race Finished, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
Lessons of past cast shadows over Syria, passage=History and experience act as a filter that can distort as much as elucidate. It is largely forgotten now, overlooked in the one-line description of Tony Blair and George W Bush as the men who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but there was a wider context to their conviction.}}
- There is too much history between them for them to split up now.
- He has had a lot of history with the police.
Synonyms
* (aggregate of past events) background, past * (record or narrative description of past events) account, chronicle, story, tale * medical history * logDerived terms
* alternate history * antihistory * antihistoricist, antihistoricism * art history * call history * case history * credit history * family history * herstory * historian * historic * historical * historically * historiography * history repeats itself * life history * local history * medical history * microhistory * natural history * oral history * postal history * prehistory * prehistorian * prehistoric * prosecution history * pseudohistoryVerb
- (Shakespeare)