date

date
   a heterosexual companion
   You specified the time of meeting:
    ... theories as to the girl's possible date. (Davidson, 1978 — they were speculating about her companion, not her age)
   On a blind date you take pot luck. In America a date may describe a prostitute:
    ... pictures and other materials about the women... were given to Bailey's DNC contact, so that prospective clients could choose among possible dates. (Colodny and Gettlin, 1991, describing facilities for obtaining prostitutes for Democratic visitors to Washington)
   To date is to take out such a companion:
    If the Smiths hadn't been there I would have dated her myself. (Theroux, 1978)

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  • date — [ dat ] n. f. • 1281; lat. médiév. data (littera) « (lettre) donnée », premiers mots de la formule indiquant la date où un acte avait été rédigé 1 ♦ Indication du jour du mois (⇒ quantième), du mois et de l année (⇒ millésime) où un acte a été… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • date — I noun assigned time, day, day of the week, dies, marked time, moment, particular point of time, period, period of time, point of time, specified period of time, tempus, time, time during which anything occurs associated concepts: antedating,… …   Law dictionary

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  • Date — утилита Unix для работы с системными часами. Выводит текущую дату и время в различных форматах и позволяет устанавливать системное время. Содержание 1 Использование 2 Ключи 3 См. также …   Википедия

  • date — DATE. sub. fém. Ce qui marque le temps et le lieu où une lettre a été écrite, où un acte a été passé, etc. La date d une lettre, d un contrat, d un Arrêt, etc. Mettre la date. De fraîche date. De nouvelle date. De vieille date. Il produit une… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

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  • Date — Date, n.[F. datte, L. dactylus, fr. Gr. ?, prob. not the same word as da ktylos finger, but of Semitic origin.] (Bot.) The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself. [1913 Webster] Note: This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • date — ‘time of an event’ and date ‘fruit’ are distinct words in English, and perhaps unexpectedly the latter [13] entered the language a century before the former. It came via Old French date and Latin dactylus from Greek dáktulos, which originally… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

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