dating
- presentparticiple andgerund ofdate
dating (countable anduncountable,pluraldatings)
- A form ofromanticcourtship typically between two individuals with the aim of assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as aspouse.
Janet was surprised at how much casualdating had changed since she was last single.
We met on a populardating app.
- Anestimation of theage of anartifact, biologicalvestige, linguistic usage, etc.
- 1922 (July),A. E. Douglass, "Some aspects of the use of the annual rings of trees in climatic study".The Scientific Monthly15(1): 5-21.
- A comparison in seven sequoias between very careful counting and accuratedating in 2,000 years shows an average counting error of 35 years, which is only 1.7 per cent.
1991, Onno Ydema,Carpets and Their Dating in Netherlandish Paintings, 1540-1700,page120:Finally, with the exception of the rug in the paintings of Willem Duyster, thedatings of both groups approximately agree;
1998, Niels Lynnerup,The Greenland Norse, footnote,page 46:The results almost always used to illustrate this are thedatings of human bones from the Sct. Drotten Church in Lund.
2007, Anatoly Fomenko,History: Fiction or Science?: Chronology 1,page73:Different dendrochronologicaldatings have different veracity. The veracity of a dendrochronologicaldating depends on the certainty of the collations on the dendrochronological scale.
- The setting of adate on which an event or transaction is to take place or take effect.
1967, Delbert J. Duncan, Charles Franklin Phillips,Retailing: Principles and Methods,page352:But C.O.D.datings are relatively rare. They are so disliked by buyers that they are used by sellers only when the latter are quite uncertain of a buyer's ability and willingness to pay.
1999, Alexander M. Hicks,Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism,page227:Pressure from unemployment for retrenchment is evident for the "early" as well as "best"datings of retrenchment. However, when retrenchmentdatings lean toward earlier years, unemployment is not the preeminent factor among the various accelerators and decelerators of retrenchment that it is for the more balanced "best"datings of Table 7.2 (or that it is, as we shall see, for the "late"datings).
2008, R. Charles Moyer, James R. McGuigan, William J. Kretlow,Contemporary Financial Management,page630:Seasonaldatings are special credit terms that are sometimes offered to retailers when sales are highly concentrated in one or more periods during the year.
a form of romantic courtship
process of estimating the age of something
FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*datəŋ. Cognate withIlocanodateng(“arrival”),Bikol Centraldatong(“to arrive”), andMalaydatang(“to come”).
datíng (Baybayin spellingᜇᜆᜒᜅ᜔)
- arrival;advent
- Synonyms:pagsapit,pagdating,sapit,datal,pagdatal
Kailan po angdating ninyo?- When is yourarrival?
- (colloquial)impact;effect;appeal(power to attract or interest)
Walangdating ang pelikulang ito.- This film has noimpact.
Malakas angdating niya.- He has a strong presence.
- (euphemistic)menstrualperiod
- Synonyms:pagkakaregla,buwanang dalaw
- (slang)style;fashion
- Synonym:moda
