| date | 1. To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter. 2. To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids. We may say dated at or from a place. "The letter is dated at Philadephia." (G. T. Curtis) "You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois." (Addison) "In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them." (M. Arnold) Origin: Cf. F. Dater. See Date. <botany> The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself. This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp, sweet, esculent, and wholesome, and inclosing a hard kernel. <botany> Date palm, or Date tree, a bivalve shell, or its inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See Pholas. Origin: F. Datte, L. Dactylus, fr. Gr, prob. Not the same word as finger, but of Semitic origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| date boil | The lesion occurring in cutaneous leishmaniasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| date fever | Tropical disease caused by a flavivirus (one of the arboviruses), transmitted by mosquitoes. A more serious complication is dengue shock syndrome, a haemorrhagic fever probably caused by an immune complex hypersensitivity after re exposure. (18 Nov 1997) |
| due date | The estimated calendar date when a baby will be born, the date the baby is due to be born. It is also called the estimated date of confinement (EDC). (12 Dec 1998) |
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