datingn.

Brit.

/ˈdeɪtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈdeɪdɪŋ/

Forms: 1500s datyng, 1500s– dating, 1600s– dateing.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: date v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < date v. + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action or practice of specifying or marking something with a date; the fact of being marked with a date; the date thus marked or specified. Also: the action or process of becoming dated (dated adj. 3).

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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > appending a date to

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a1550 Vox Populi 43 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) III. 269 By roulyng and by dating.

1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 112^v The other & chief cause of her dollor was, for that by the wronge datyng of her letter, she failed of the daye of the departure of her husbande.

1628 R. Cotton Danger wherein Kingdome Standeth 11 For the time of the vsuall summons, reputed to bee 40. dayes, to bee too large for this present necessity; it may bee by the dating of the writs lessened.

1678 Tryals W. Ireland, T. Pickering, & J. Grove for Murder 19 He was then in London..as I suppose by the dateing of his Letters.

a1741 tr. C. Rollin Rom. Hist. (1754) IV. xi. 126 What he says himself..authorizes the dating of his birth in the present year, which is the 505th year of Rome.

1773 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 309 I must give you this last Week all in a lump—for I have no Time for Daily Datings.

1800 Monthly Mirror Feb. 87 Dionysius Exiguus, abbot of Rome, about 576, adopted the dating from the Christian æra, instead of from the foundation of Pagan Rome.

1891 Athenæum 10 Jan. 61/2 As other datings of his are apparently advanced one year, his dating requires to be inquired into.

1896 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 27 June 649/1 I have been led into this investigation of ‘dating’ by the fact that The School for Scandal..dated very perceptibly last Saturday night at the Lyceum in point of morals.

1921 Railway Gaz. 2 Dec. 860/2 The first [cyclometer] registers the dating and cancellation of each ticket.

1936 C. Connolly Rock Pool 12 The fault I am most conscious of..is that of dating... In this case my debt is with the nineteen-twenties.

1999 J.-B. Gewald Herero Heroes v. 159 It is possible that Leutwein was aware of the German dating on the letter.., and that he therefore left it out of his published work.

2. The determination of the age of an object, date of an event, etc., esp. in archaeological or historical research; an age or date thus determined.carbon, fluorine, optical, tree-ring dating, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating

chronologizing1862

dating1890

datation1910

1890 Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. & Cheshire 5 58 No datings, at any rate in the earlier centuries, can be deduced from the presence of supporters.

1936 Discovery Nov. 362/2 The Bournemouth specimens were found in conditions which give no criterion for dating.

1950 Antiquity 24 43 The dating of these sites involves the post-Algonquin changes in Great Lakes water-levels through isostasy and drainage.

1993 C. R. Dodwell Pictorial Arts of West 800–1200 ii. 22/2 The style is so naïve and akin to folk art that it makes dating difficult.

2009 M. Macklin & J. Woodward in J. Woodward Physical Geogr. Mediterranean xi. 321/1 The development of accelerator mass spectrometry has revolutionized the dating of terminal Pleistocene and Holocene age fluvial deposits.

3. Originally U.S. The action or practice of arranging or going on a date (date n.² 8a) with somebody, esp. on a regular basis.Earliest in dating bureau (see Compounds 2b).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > practice of going on dates

dating1921

society > leisure > social event > type of social event > [noun] > social or romantic appointment or engagement

date1885

dating1921

blind date1925

1921 Univ. Oklahoma Mag. Mar. 3/2 About two thirds of the students in the University are men and yet there are many lonesome freshmen co-eds and Eds too. A dating bureau wouldn't be any worse than a matrimonial bureau.

1939 G. Greene Lawless Roads x. 249 Rating for dating. The famous sub-deb chart for getting along with boys.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 72/2 She has to be so rigorously self-controlled during several years of dating.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 53/4 (advt.) Many more exciting dates, parties, and trips. Dating by computer!

2000 Genre June 62/1 Online dating is a good alternative to the bars, and I think that as society inevitably becomes more netcentric, we'll see more of these sites and more people using them.

2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 23 Aug. 24 I was scared of dating, as any man who saw me naked would get a real shock.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

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1881 A. C. Fraser Life Berkeley 212 Our placing and dating intelligence must be inadequate to the placeless and dateless Intellect.

1908 Bankers Mag. Oct. 641/1 This removes all confusion and liability to error in that particular, and makes the dating process absolutely simple.

1950 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past (ed. 2) i. 11 Dendrochronology may well become a dating-method in such areas.

1971 Nature 23 July 257/2 Thermoluminescence (TL) of fossil bones..has been reported by Jasińska and Niewiadomski, who suggest that such materials could be used for dating purposes.

1992 Coin Monthly Feb. 5/1 Siamese coins have three dating systems.

2006 Independent 23 June 10/4 Modern dating technology shows that early man made body adornments and engaged in ‘symbolic behaviour’ much sooner than had been thought.

C2. In sense 3 (originally U.S.).

a. attributive. Designating, relating to, or providing a service through which clients may meet one another for romantic or sexual purposes, as dating app, dating habits, dating pattern, dating service, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.

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1938 Boston Globe 27 July 17/5 You might tell Dick that you'll try to understand his attitude and that you'll put a stop to your previous dating habits.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female xii. 280 For the old institutionalized hostilities of..girls' tears and boyish pranks, the new pre-puberty dating pattern is being substituted.

1959 Economist 30 May 821/2 The Americans are better since..they have already, at 17, several years of dating experience behind them.

1971 Rep. on Non-victim Crime in San Francisco (San Francisco Comm. on Crime) ii. 3 Moonlighting secretaries who sell their favors on a selective basis through legitimate dating services.

2003 Globe & Mail (Toronto) May 31 l2/2 She seems to like Mike's on-line photo and dating profile.

2009 A. Roth Ooh, Baby! i. 17 All his friends were happily hitched, and he was tired of playing the dating game.

2018 A. Stein Unbound viii. 217 Dating apps invite one to swipe left on a picture if you're not interested in the person and right if you are, and after each rightward swipe, one is presented with a profile.

dating agency n.

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1923 Iola (Kansas) Daily Reg. 11 Dec. 1/2 ‘Desirable dates for bashful young men and timid young co-eds satisfaction guaranteed.’ So reads the business announcement..of the Markley dating agency.

1979 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 18 May These ‘experiments in conviviality’ are operating only in remote, underpopulated areas where loneliness is a serious problem and no dating agencies exist.

1998 Times 25 June 23/1 The usual reservoir of people who offer themselves to dating agencies.

dating bureau n.

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1921Dating bureau [see sense 3].

1955 F. O'Connor Let. 12 Oct. in Habit of Being (1980) 110 His current obsession is a scientific dating bureau.

2005 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 153 1923 Even dance studios and dating bureaus have been subject to requirements that they include certain terms in their consumer contracts.

dating site n.

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1995 I Apologize in rec.martial-arts (Usenet newsgroup) 17 Nov. We (myself and about 7 network admins at the dating sites) did trace the fraudulent posts to your computer pool.

2011 E. Morozov Net Delusion vi. 159 A married professor in his fifties who was also remarkably active on various dating sites.

dating web site n.

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1996 Disabled Women are Underrated in soc.penpals (Usenet newsgroup) 14 Apr. There is a singles/dating web site that is dedicated for people with special capabilities who are seeking mates.

2011 Independent 14 Nov. 15/4 Ugly—or..‘not conventionally attractive’—men have a tough time of it on dating websites.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dating
释义	datingn. Brit. /ˈdeɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdeɪdɪŋ/ Forms: 1500s datyng, 1500s– dating, 1600s– dateing. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: date v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < date v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action or practice of specifying or marking something with a date; the fact of being marked with a date; the date thus marked or specified. Also: the action or process of becoming dated (dated adj. 3). ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > appending a date to datinga1550 a1550 Vox Populi 43 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) III. 269 By roulyng and by dating. 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 112^v The other & chief cause of her dollor was, for that by the wronge datyng of her letter, she failed of the daye of the departure of her husbande. 1628 R. Cotton Danger wherein Kingdome Standeth 11 For the time of the vsuall summons, reputed to bee 40. dayes, to bee too large for this present necessity; it may bee by the dating of the writs lessened. 1678 Tryals W. Ireland, T. Pickering, & J. Grove for Murder 19 He was then in London..as I suppose by the dateing of his Letters. a1741 tr. C. Rollin Rom. Hist. (1754) IV. xi. 126 What he says himself..authorizes the dating of his birth in the present year, which is the 505th year of Rome. 1773 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 309 I must give you this last Week all in a lump—for I have no Time for Daily Datings. 1800 Monthly Mirror Feb. 87 Dionysius Exiguus, abbot of Rome, about 576, adopted the dating from the Christian æra, instead of from the foundation of Pagan Rome. 1891 Athenæum 10 Jan. 61/2 As other datings of his are apparently advanced one year, his dating requires to be inquired into. 1896 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 27 June 649/1 I have been led into this investigation of ‘dating’ by the fact that The School for Scandal..dated very perceptibly last Saturday night at the Lyceum in point of morals. 1921 Railway Gaz. 2 Dec. 860/2 The first [cyclometer] registers the dating and cancellation of each ticket. 1936 C. Connolly Rock Pool 12 The fault I am most conscious of..is that of dating... In this case my debt is with the nineteen-twenties. 1999 J.-B. Gewald Herero Heroes v. 159 It is possible that Leutwein was aware of the German dating on the letter.., and that he therefore left it out of his published work. 2. The determination of the age of an object, date of an event, etc., esp. in archaeological or historical research; an age or date thus determined.carbon, fluorine, optical, tree-ring dating, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating chronologizing1862 dating1890 datation1910 1890 Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. & Cheshire 5 58 No datings, at any rate in the earlier centuries, can be deduced from the presence of supporters. 1936 Discovery Nov. 362/2 The Bournemouth specimens were found in conditions which give no criterion for dating. 1950 Antiquity 24 43 The dating of these sites involves the post-Algonquin changes in Great Lakes water-levels through isostasy and drainage. 1993 C. R. Dodwell Pictorial Arts of West 800–1200 ii. 22/2 The style is so naïve and akin to folk art that it makes dating difficult. 2009 M. Macklin & J. Woodward in J. Woodward Physical Geogr. Mediterranean xi. 321/1 The development of accelerator mass spectrometry has revolutionized the dating of terminal Pleistocene and Holocene age fluvial deposits. 3. Originally U.S. The action or practice of arranging or going on a date (date n.² 8a) with somebody, esp. on a regular basis.Earliest in dating bureau (see Compounds 2b). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > practice of going on dates dating1921 society > leisure > social event > type of social event > [noun] > social or romantic appointment or engagement date1885 dating1921 blind date1925 1921 Univ. Oklahoma Mag. Mar. 3/2 About two thirds of the students in the University are men and yet there are many lonesome freshmen co-eds and Eds too. A dating bureau wouldn't be any worse than a matrimonial bureau. 1939 G. Greene Lawless Roads x. 249 Rating for dating. The famous sub-deb chart for getting along with boys. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 72/2 She has to be so rigorously self-controlled during several years of dating. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 53/4 (advt.) Many more exciting dates, parties, and trips. Dating by computer! 2000 Genre June 62/1 Online dating is a good alternative to the bars, and I think that as society inevitably becomes more netcentric, we'll see more of these sites and more people using them. 2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 23 Aug. 24 I was scared of dating, as any man who saw me naked would get a real shock. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1881 A. C. Fraser Life Berkeley 212 Our placing and dating intelligence must be inadequate to the placeless and dateless Intellect. 1908 Bankers Mag. Oct. 641/1 This removes all confusion and liability to error in that particular, and makes the dating process absolutely simple. 1950 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past (ed. 2) i. 11 Dendrochronology may well become a dating-method in such areas. 1971 Nature 23 July 257/2 Thermoluminescence (TL) of fossil bones..has been reported by Jasińska and Niewiadomski, who suggest that such materials could be used for dating purposes. 1992 Coin Monthly Feb. 5/1 Siamese coins have three dating systems. 2006 Independent 23 June 10/4 Modern dating technology shows that early man made body adornments and engaged in ‘symbolic behaviour’ much sooner than had been thought. C2. In sense 3 (originally U.S.). a. attributive. Designating, relating to, or providing a service through which clients may meet one another for romantic or sexual purposes, as dating app, dating habits, dating pattern, dating service, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately. ΚΠ 1938 Boston Globe 27 July 17/5 You might tell Dick that you'll try to understand his attitude and that you'll put a stop to your previous dating habits. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female xii. 280 For the old institutionalized hostilities of..girls' tears and boyish pranks, the new pre-puberty dating pattern is being substituted. 1959 Economist 30 May 821/2 The Americans are better since..they have already, at 17, several years of dating experience behind them. 1971 Rep. on Non-victim Crime in San Francisco (San Francisco Comm. on Crime) ii. 3 Moonlighting secretaries who sell their favors on a selective basis through legitimate dating services. 2003 Globe & Mail (Toronto) May 31 l2/2 She seems to like Mike's on-line photo and dating profile. 2009 A. Roth Ooh, Baby! i. 17 All his friends were happily hitched, and he was tired of playing the dating game. 2018 A. Stein Unbound viii. 217 Dating apps invite one to swipe left on a picture if you're not interested in the person and right if you are, and after each rightward swipe, one is presented with a profile. b. dating agency n. ΚΠ 1923 Iola (Kansas) Daily Reg. 11 Dec. 1/2 ‘Desirable dates for bashful young men and timid young co-eds satisfaction guaranteed.’ So reads the business announcement..of the Markley dating agency. 1979 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 18 May These ‘experiments in conviviality’ are operating only in remote, underpopulated areas where loneliness is a serious problem and no dating agencies exist. 1998 Times 25 June 23/1 The usual reservoir of people who offer themselves to dating agencies. dating bureau n. ΚΠ 1921Dating bureau [see sense 3]. 1955 F. O'Connor Let. 12 Oct. in Habit of Being (1980) 110 His current obsession is a scientific dating bureau. 2005 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 153 1923 Even dance studios and dating bureaus have been subject to requirements that they include certain terms in their consumer contracts. dating site n. ΚΠ 1995 I Apologize in rec.martial-arts (Usenet newsgroup) 17 Nov. We (myself and about 7 network admins at the dating sites) did trace the fraudulent posts to your computer pool. 2011 E. Morozov Net Delusion vi. 159 A married professor in his fifties who was also remarkably active on various dating sites. dating web site n. ΚΠ 1996 Disabled Women are Underrated in soc.penpals (Usenet newsgroup) 14 Apr. There is a singles/dating web site that is dedicated for people with special capabilities who are seeking mates. 2011 Independent 14 Nov. 15/4 Ugly—or..‘not conventionally attractive’—men have a tough time of it on dating websites. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1550
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