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Date can be a verb or a noun.

date used as a verb:

  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
    "The letter is dated at Philadephia. - G. T. Curtis"
  2. To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of.
  3. To determine the age of something; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
  4. To take (someone) on a series of dates.
  5. To become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
    "This show hasn't dated well."
  6. To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from
    "The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms. - E. Everett"

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

date used as a noun:

  1. 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. The date palm itself.
  3. That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc.
  4. The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle. A specific day.
  5. A point in time, as in You may need that at a later date.
  6. Assigned end; conclusion.
  7. Given or assigned length of life; duration.
  8. A pre-arranged social meeting.
  9. A companion when one is partaking in a social occasion.
  10. A meeting with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
  11. anus.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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As detailed above, 'date' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: The letter is dated at Philadephia. - G. T. Curtis
  2. Verb usage: You will be surprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois. - Joseph Addison
  3. Verb usage: In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them. - M. Arnold
  4. Verb usage: This show hasn't dated well.
  5. Verb usage: The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms. - E. Everett

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of date are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of date, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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