date

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
    — the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc.
  2. 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.
  3. The date palm.
    — There were a few dates planted around the house.
  4. A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
    — the date for pleading
  5. The anus. Australia,New-Zealand
    — The bullet took the middle finger of his right hand clean off […]. ‘He sure won't be sticking that finger up his date again,’ said Max.
  6. A point in time.
    — You may need that at a later date.
  7. An assigned end; a conclusion. rare
    — But because he is but briefe, and these things of great consequence not to be kept obscure, I shall conceave it nothing above my duty either for the difficulty or the censure that may passe thereon, to communicate such thoughts as I also have had, and do offer them now in this generall labour of reformation, to the candid view both of Church and Magistrate; especially because I see it the hope of good men, that those irregular and unspirituall Courts have spun their utmost date in this Land; and some beter course must now be constituted.
  8. A given or assigned length of life; duration. obsolete
    — Good luck prolonged hath thy date.
  9. A pre-arranged meeting.
    — I arranged a date with my Australian business partners.
  10. One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.
    — I brought Melinda to the wedding as my date.
  11. A romantic meeting or outing 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.
动词 v.
  1. To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution. transitive
    — to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter
  2. To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of. transitive
    — The writer dates the festival on June 21st, which is probably a mistake.
  3. To determine the age of something. transitive
    — to date the building of the pyramids
  4. To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates. transitive
  5. To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with. broadly,transitive
    — Jessica Simpson reportedly went on a drinking binge after discovering ex-boyfriend John Mayer is dating Jennifer Aniston.
  6. To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other. broadly,reciprocal
    — They met a couple of years ago, but have been dating for about five months.
  7. To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc. ambitransitive
    — This show hasn't dated well.
  8. To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned. intransitive
    — The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.

词形变化

dates plural dates plural dates present,singular,third-person dating participle,present dated participle,past dated past

词汇关系

近义词
date go out [with] go with go together hang together have a thing see step out
上位词
fruit time
下位词
go steady lock down make beautiful music together play the field
衍生词
Chinese date date bread date fish datelike date mussel date-nut bread date palm date plum date shell date tree airdate angel date bear date best-before date best before date best-by date birthdate blackout date blind date carbon-date catch a date cheap date closing date crewdate crew date cyberdate dateaversary datebook date coaching dateless dateline Date Line datemark date night date of birth date of death date rape date-rape date rape drug date rapist date-rapist datestamp datestone date sugar datetime date-time datewise date with destiny dateworthy day-and-date deathdate death date dendrodate desert date doomsdate double-date double date due date Dutch date e-date estimated date of delivery expected date of confinement heavy date holidate hot date in date inflate-a-date interdate International Date Line issue date it's a date mandate man date month to date multidate nondate of even date out of date out-of-date playdate play date post-date pre-date raindate red letter date save the date sell-by date sexpiration date speed date stardate street date till date to-date to date transaction date up-date uptodate up-to-date up to date use-by date what date is it today year to date year-to-date misdate outdate overdate postdate update antedate backdate crossdate dateable date back date-me doc date out date up downdate foredate online date predate redate retrodate
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English date, from Old French date, datil, datille, from Latin dactylus (likely via Old Provençal datil), from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”) (from the resemblance of the date to a human finger), probably a folk-etymological alteration of a word from a Semitic source such as Arabic دَقَل (daqal, “variety of date palm”) or Hebrew דֶּקֶל (deqel, “date palm”). Doublet of dactyl and dactylus.
词源 2
From Middle English date, from Old French date, from Late Latin data, from Latin datus (“given”), past participle of dare (“to give”); from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”). Doublet of data.
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