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- [deyt]
- /deɪt/
- /deɪt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [deyt]
- /deɪt/
Definitions of dating word
- adjective dating Dating agencies or services are for people who are trying to find a girlfriend or boyfriend. 5
- noun dating any of several techniques, such as radioactive dating, dendrochronology, or varve dating, for establishing the age of rocks, palaeontological or archaeological specimens, etc 3
- noun dating a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen: July 4, 1776 was the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. 1
- noun dating the day of the month: Is today's date the 7th or the 8th? 1
- noun dating an inscription on a writing, coin, etc., that shows the time, or time and place, of writing, casting, delivery, etc.: a letter bearing the date January 16. 1
- noun dating the time or period to which any event or thing belongs; period in general: at a late date. 1
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Origin of dating
First appearance:
before 1275 One of the 13% oldest English words
1275-1325; (noun) Middle English < Middle French < Late Latin data, noun use of data (feminine of datus, past participle of dare to give), from the phrase data (Romae) written, given (at Rome); (v.) Middle English daten to sign or date a document, derivative of the noun
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Parts of speech for Dating
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
dating popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
dating usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for dating
noun dating
- radiometric dating — any method of determining the age of earth materials or objects of organic origin based on measurement of either short-lived radioactive elements or the amount of a long-lived radioactive element plus its decay product.
- dendrochronology — the study of the annual rings of trees, used esp to date past events
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- carbon-14 dating — radiocarbon dating.
- thermoluminescence — phosphorescence produced by the heating of a substance.
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