Generation vs Date - What's the difference?
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The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.
* 1832 , (Charles Lyell), Principles of Geology , II:
The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
* 1626 , (Francis Bacon), Sylva Sylvarum :
* c. 1605 , (William Shakespeare), Timon of Athens , First Folio 1623, I.3:
A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
(obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring.
The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
* 2008 , Edgar Thorpe, Objective English :
A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
* 2009 , Paul Deital, Harvey Deital and Abbey Deital, iPhone for Programmers :
(geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
A specific age range in which each person in that range can relate culturally to one another.
A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
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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Generation is a related term of date.
As nouns the difference between generation and date
is that generation is generation (act of generating) while date is .generation
English
(wikipedia generation)Noun
(en noun)- The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations.
- So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire.
- Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.
- Thy Mothers of my generation : what's she, if I be a Dogge?
- This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
- Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3
- All generations and ages of the Christian church -
- Before the independence of India the books of Dr P. K. Yadav presented a fundamental challenge to the accepted ideas of race relations that, two generations later, will be true of the writings of the radical writers of the 1970s.
- The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.
- Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
- People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.
Derived terms
* alternate generation * generation gap * Generation X * spontaneous generationExternal links
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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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