date
verb/deɪt/
/deɪt/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they date | /deɪt/ /deɪt/ |
| he / she / it dates | /deɪts/ /deɪts/ |
| past simple dated | /ˈdeɪtɪd/ /ˈdeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle dated | /ˈdeɪtɪd/ /ˈdeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form dating | /ˈdeɪtɪŋ/ /ˈdeɪtɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, often passive] date something to write or print the date on something
- Thank you for your letter dated 24th March.
- The forms should be dated and signed and sent back immediately.
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- [transitive, often passive] to say when something old existed or was made
- date something It has not yet been possible to date the paintings accurately.
- date something at something The skeleton has been dated at about 2000 BC.
- date something to something The manuscript has been dated to the sixteenth century.
- date something between A and B There are five self-portraits by Kahlo, dated between 1937 and 1943.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- accurately
- precisely
- [intransitive] to become old-fashioned
- She designs classic clothes which do not date.
- [transitive] date somebody if something dates you, it shows that you are fairly old or older than the people you are with
- I was at the Woodstock festival—that dates me, doesn't it?
- [transitive, intransitive] date (somebody) to have a romantic relationship with somebody
- She's been dating Ron for several months.
- How long have you two been dating?
write date
find age
of clothes/words
person
have relationship
Word Originverb Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin data, feminine past participle of dare ‘give’; from the Latin formula used in dating letters, data (epistola) ‘(letter) given or delivered’, to record a particular time or place.
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