date

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Noun

date (plural dates)

1. (botany) The fruit of the date palm. This sweet fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
2. (botany) The date palm itself.

Derived terms

• date palm or date tree (Botany): the genus of palms which bear dates, of which common species is Phoenix dactylifera
• date plum (Botany): the fruit of several species of Diospyros, including the American and Japanese persimmons, and the European lotus (Diospyros lotus)
• date shell or date fish (Zoölogy): a bivalve shell, or its inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See Pholas.

Date

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Date or dates may refer to:

• Calendar date, a day on a calendar
• The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera
• Dating (activity), a social outing with a current or potential lover
• Date (metadata), a representation term or class associated with a data element
• date (Unix), a Unix command for displaying the current time and date
• time and date, commands on DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems for displaying the current time and date
• Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Education, a substance abuse program in some U.S. schools
• Radiometric dating is a family of techniques used to determine of the approximate period of origin of an object
• "Dates" (Only Fools and Horses), an episode of the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses
• Date (surname), family name in Japan and elsewhere
  • The Date clan, a Japanese feudal clan from the Sengoku period
• Design Automation and Test in Europe, a yearly conference on the topic of electronic design automation
• Date Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records

Places

• Date, Hokkaidō, a city located in Iburi, Hokkaidō, Japan
• Date, Fukushima, city located in northern Fukushima, Japan
• Date District, Fukushima, district located in Fukushima, Japan

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