dating
 (ing.)約會


 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]