Mating vs Dating - What's the difference?
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Fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.
(zoology) Pairing of organisms for copulation.
* 1981 , Henry Foster, The Mouse in Biomedical Research (page 96)
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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.
* 1991 , Onno Ydema, Carpets and Their Dating in Netherlandish Paintings, 1540-1700 ,
* 1998 , Niels Lynnerup, The Greenland Norse , footnote,
* 2007 , Anatoly Fomenko, History: Fiction or Science?: Chronology 1 ,
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 ,
* 1999 , Alexander M. Hicks, Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism ,
* 2008 , R. Charles Moyer, James R. McGuigan, William J. Kretlow, Contemporary Financial Management ,
As nouns the difference between mating and dating
is that mating is pairing of organisms for copulation 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 mating and dating
is that mating is present participle of lang=en while dating is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective mating
is fitting into or onto a corresponding part, as a matched plug and socket.mating
English
(wikipedia mating)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)- The progeny of backcrosses and intercrosses will form some incrosses and some matings of other types.
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
Synonyms
* pairingVerb
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English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
page 120,
- Finally, with the exception of the rug in the paintings of Willem Duyster, the datings of both groups approximately agree;
page 46,
- The results almost always used to illustrate this are the datings of human bones from the Sct. Drotten Church in Lund.
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.
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.
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 ).
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.