Date vs Mee - 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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* 1606 — 7.7
As a noun date
is .As a proper noun mee is
may.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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Usage notes
* To note the time of writing one may say dated at' or ' from a place.Statistics
*Anagrams
* ----mee
English
Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so;
- For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: