different between bestie vs dating

English

Etymology

best (friend) +? -ie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?sti/
• Rhymes: -?sti

Noun

bestie (plural besties)

1. (informal) best friend
   • 2008, Julie Kraut, Shallon Lester, Hot Mess: Summer in the City

     Even back then, a party just wasn't a party without my bestie, and I was miserable for the last eight frames.
2. (Internet slang, informal) best friend; A term of address for someone, usually used to instruct, to make a statement, or to draw attention.

Anagrams

• beties, bitees, bêtise

Danish

Etymology

From German Bestie, from Latin b?stia (“beast”).

Noun

bestie n (singular definite bestiet, plural indefinite bestier)

1. beast (a cruel and violent being or creature)

Inflection

Synonyms

• udyr
• uhyre

Italian

Noun

bestie f

1. plural of bestia

Polish

Noun

bestie

1. nominative plural of bestia
2. accusative plural of bestia
3. vocative plural of bestia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bestia, Latin bestia (19th century).

Noun

bestie f (plural bestii)

1. beast, wild animal

Synonyms

• fiar?

Related terms

• bestial

See also

• animal
• vietate

Venetian

Noun

bestie

1. plural of bestia

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?de?t.??/
• Hyphenation: dat?ing
• Rhymes: -e?t??

Verb

dating

1. present participle of date

Noun

dating (countable and uncountable, plural datings)

1. A form of romantic courtship typically between two individuals with the aim of assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse.
2. An estimation of the age of an artifact, biological vestige, linguistic usage, etc.
   • 1922 (Jul), A. E. Douglass, "Some aspects of the use of the annual rings of trees in climatic study". The Scientific Monthly 15(1): 5-21.

     A comparison in seven sequoias between very careful counting and accurate dating 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, page 120,

     Finally, with the exception of the rug in the paintings of Willem Duyster, the datings of both groups approximately agree;

   • 1998, Niels Lynnerup, The Greenland Norse, footnote, page 46,

     The results almost always used to illustrate this are the datings of human bones from the Sct. Drotten Church in Lund.

   • 2007, Anatoly Fomenko, History: Fiction or Science?: Chronology 1, page 73,

     Different dendrochronological datings have different veracity. The veracity of a dendrochronological dating depends on the certainty of the collations on the dendrochronological scale.

3. The setting of a date on which an event or transaction is to take place or take effect.
   • 1967, Delbert J. Duncan, Charles Franklin Phillips, Retailing: Principles and Methods, page 352,

     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, page 227,

     Pressure from unemployment for retrenchment is evident for the "early" as well as "best" datings of retrenchment. However, when retrenchment datings 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, page 630,

     Seasonal datings are special credit terms that are sometimes offered to retailers when sales are highly concentrated in one or more periods during the year.

Hyponyms

• radiocarbon dating

Derived terms

• age-dating

Translations

Anagrams

• dang it, dangit

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *date?. Cognates with Ilocano dateng (“arrival”), Bikol Central dato? (“to arrive”), and Malay datang (“to come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.?ti?/

Verb

datíng

1. to arrive; to come; to reach.

   Synonyms: datal, sapit

2. to bring; to take (to a certain place).

Derived terms

Noun

datíng

1. arrival; advent

2. menstrual period
3. (colloquial) impact; effect

Derived terms

Anagrams

• tingad, dingat