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dating
日期 記日
Date, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dating.]
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.
Note: ☞ 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.
dating
n : use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological
specimens [syn: geological dating]