What does date mean?

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What does date mean? - The Free Dictionary

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[n] the specified day of the month(what is the date today?)[v] go on a date with(Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart)[n] a participant in a date(his date never stopped talking)[v] stamp with a date(The package is dated November 24)[n] a meeting arranged in advance(she ask

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[n] the specified day of the month
(what is the date today?)

[v] go on a date with
(Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart)

[n] a participant in a date
(his date never stopped talking)

[v] stamp with a date
(The package is dated November 24)

[n] a meeting arranged in advance
(she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date)

[v] assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
(Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings)

[n] a particular but unspecified point in time
(they hoped to get together at an early date)

[v] date regularly; have a steady relationship with
(Did you know that she is seeing an older man? He is dating his former wife again!)

[n] the present
(they are up to date we haven't heard from them to date)

[v] provide with a dateline; mark with a date
(She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated)

[n] the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred
(he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class)

[n] a particular day specified as the time something happens
(the date of the election is set by law)

[n] sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed

Other vocabulary

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A broad distinction is made between general and specialized dictionaries. Specialized dictionaries include words in specialist fields, rather than a complete range of words in the language. Lexical items that describe concepts in specific fields are usually called terms instead of words, although there is no consensus whether lexicology and terminology are two different fields of study. In theory, general dictionaries are supposed[citation needed] to be semasiological, mapping word to definition, while specialized dictionaries are supposed to be onomasiological, first identifying concepts and then establishing the terms used to designate them. In practice, the two approaches are used for both types. There are other types of dictionaries that do not fit neatly into the above distinction, for instance bilingual (translation) dictionaries, dictionaries of synonyms (thesauri), and rhyming dictionaries. The word dictionary (unqualified) is usually understood to refer to a general purpose monolingual dictionary.

There is also a contrast between prescriptive or descriptive dictionaries; the former reflect what is seen as correct use of the language while the latter reflect recorded actual use. Stylistic indications (e.g. "informal" or "vulgar") in many modern dictionaries are also considered by some to be less than objectively descriptive.

The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.