Date vs Rate - What's the difference?
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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.
The date palm.
That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made.
* 1681 , (John Dryden), The Spanish Friar
The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle. A specific day.
* 1844 , (Mark Akenside), (The Pleasures of the Imagination), Book II
A point in time
(rare) Assigned end; conclusion.
* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope),
(obsolete) Given or assigned length of life; duration.
* (rfdate) (Edmund Spenser),
* (rfdate) (George Chapman) (translator), (Homer) (author), (w) , Volume 1, Book IV, lines 282–5,
A pre-arranged social meeting.
A companion when one is partaking in a social occasion.
A meeting with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
* (rfdate) (Joseph Addison)
* 1801 [1796 January], (William Cobbett), A New Year's Gift'', ''Porcupine's works , footnote,
* 1913 [1863], (Marcus Aurelius), , G. Bell and Sons,
To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of.
To determine the age of something.
To take (someone) on a series of dates.
To have a steady relationship with, to be romantically involved with.
* 2008 May 15, NEWS.com.au , "Jessica Simpson upset John Mayer dating Jennifer Aniston":
Of a couple, to be in a romantic relationship.
To become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
* (rfdate) (Edward Everett)
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, title= (obsolete) The estimated worth of something; value.
* 1599 , William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet , V.3:
The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
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Speed.
* Clarendon
The relative speed of change or progress.
The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
(nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
(obsolete) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.
* Spenser
(obsolete) Order; arrangement.
* Spenser
(obsolete) Ratification; approval.
(horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
To evaluate or estimate the value of.
* South
To consider or regard.
To deserve; to be worth.
* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 101:
To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
(transitive, chiefly, British) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
(informal) To like; to think highly of.
To have position (in a certain class).
To have value or standing.
To ratify.
* Chapman
To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
To berate, scold.
* Shakespeare
* Barrow
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John IX:
* , I.56:
* 1825 , Sir (Walter Scott), , ch.iv:
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch.XV, ''Practical — Devotional
As nouns the difference between date and rate
is that date is while rate is rot (process of something decaying or rotting ).date
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) datte, from (etyl) dactylus, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- We made a nice cake from dates .
- There were a few dates planted around the house.
Derived terms
* date fish * date mussel * date palm * date plum * date shell * date treeEtymology 2
From (etyl) date, and Die.Noun
(en noun)- the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc.
- US date''' : 05/24/08 = Tuesday, May 24th, 2008. UK '''date : 24/05/08 = Tuesday 24th May 2008.
- And bonds without a date , they say, are void.
- the date for pleading
- He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fix'd the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest.
- Do you know the date of the wedding?
- We had to change the dates of the festival because of the flooding.
- You may need that at a later date .
- What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date .
- Good luck prolonged hath thy date .
- As now Saturnius, through his life's whole date ,
- Hath Nestor's bliss raised to as steep a state,
- Both in his age to keep in peace his house,
- And to have children wise and valorous.
- I arranged a date with my Australian business partners.
- I brought Melinda to the wedding as my date .
- We really hit it off on the first date , so we decided to meet the week after.
- We slept together on the first date .
- The cinema is a popular place to take someone on a date .
Derived terms
* * blind date * date night * date of birth * date rape * double date * due date * expiry date, expiration date * sell-by date * speed date * transaction date * use-by dateDescendants
* German:Verb
(dat)- You will be surprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois.
page 430,
- I keep to the very words of the letter; but that, by "this State," is meant the State of Pennsylvania, cannot be doubted, especially when we see that the letter is dated at Philadelphia.
page 227,
- In these countries much of his Journal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them; and there, a few weeks before his fifty-ninth birthday, he fell sick and died.
- Jessica Simpson reportedly went on a drinking binge after discovering ex-boyfriend John Mayer is dating Jennifer Aniston.
- The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.
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Usage notes
* To note the time of writing one may say dated at' or ' from a place.Statistics
*Anagrams
* ----rate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from . (wikipedia rate)Noun
(en noun)- There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.
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- Many of the horse could not march at that rate , nor come up soon enough.
- The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found.
- Thus sat they all around in seemly rate .
- (Chapman)
- daily rate'''; hourly '''rate ; etc.
Derived terms
* at any rate * exchange rate * flat rate * interest rate * mortality rate * failure rate * rate limitingVerb
(rat)- She is rated fourth in the country.
- They rate his talents highly.
- To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible.
- He rated this book brilliant.
- The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.
- Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn't one of them.
- The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
- The customers don't rate the new burgers.
- She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.
- He rates as the best cyclist in the country.
- This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges.
- to rate the truce
Synonyms
* (have position in a certain class) rankDerived terms
* ratingEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(rat)- Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!
- Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it.
- Then rated they hym, and sayde: Thou arte hys disciple.
- Andronicus'' the Emperour, finding by chance in his pallace certaine principall men very earnestly disputing against ''Lapodius about one of our points of great importance, taunted and rated them very bitterly, and threatened if they gave not over, he would cause them to be cast into the river.
- He beheld him, his head still muffled in the veila man borne down and crushed to the earth by the burden of his inward feelings.
- The successful monk, on the morrow morning, hastens home to . The successful monk, arriving at Ely, is rated for a goose and an owl; is ordered back to say that (Elmset) was the place meant.