different between generation vs date

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman generacioun, Middle French generacion, and their source, Latin gener?ti?, from gener?re, present active infinitive of gener? (“to beget, generate”). Compare generate.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???n???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: gen?er?a?tion

Noun

generation (countable and uncountable, plural generations)

1. The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. [from 14th c.]
   • 1832, Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, II:

     The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations.

2. The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation. [from 14th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:

     So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire.

   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum:

     Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.
3. (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, First Folio 1623, I.3:

     Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?

4. A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit. [from 14th c.]

   This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1

   Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3

   All generations and ages of the Christian church - Richard Hooker

5. (obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring. [15th-19th c.]
6. The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time. [from 17th c.]
7. A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology. [from 20th c.]
   • 2009, Paul Deital, Harvey Deital and Abbey Deital, iPhone for Programmers:

     The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.

8. (geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.

   the generation of a line or curve

9. A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.

   Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.

10. A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.

    People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.

11. (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy and thus further degraded in quality.
    • 2014, K. G. Jackson, G. B. Townsend, TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book

      With one-inch C format or half-inch Betacam used in the component mode, quality loss through additional generations is not such a problem. In this situation, it would be usual to make the necessary alterations while re-recording onto a third generation master […]

    • 2002, Keith Jack, Vladimir Tsatsoulin, Dictionary of Video and Television Technology (page 131)

      Each generation away from the original or master produces increased degradation in the image quality.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• first-generation
• generationer
• second-generation
• generation gap
• generation loss

Related terms

• generate

Translations

Further reading

• generation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• generation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "generation" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 140.

Anagrams

• renegation

Danish

Noun

generation c (singular definite generationen, plural indefinite generationer)

1. generation (organisms or devices born or designed at the same time)

Declension

Further reading

• “generation” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “generation” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin generatio.

Noun

generation f (plural generations)

1. generation (procreation; begetting)
2. generation (rank or degree in genealogy)

Swedish

Noun

generation c

1. a generation

Declension

Related terms

• generera
• generationsväxling
• ungdomsgeneration

References

• generation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• generation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English date, from Old French date, datil, datille, from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (dáktulos, “finger”) (from the resemblance of the date to a human finger), probably a folk-etymological alteration of a word from a Semitic source such as Arabic ?????? (daqal, “variety of date palm”) or Hebrew ??????? (deqel, “date palm”).

Noun

date (plural dates)

1. The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.

2. The date palm.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English date, from Old French date, from Late Latin data, from Latin datus (“given”), past participle of dare (“to give”); from Proto-Indo-European *deh?- (“to give”). Doublet of data.

Noun

date (plural dates)

1. The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.

   US date : 05/24/08 = Tuesday, May 24th, 2008. UK date : 24/05/08 = Tuesday 24th May 2008.

   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Friar

     And bonds without a date, they say, are void.

2. A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.

   The start date for the festival is September 2.

   • 1844, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, Book II

     He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fix'd the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest.

3. A point in time.

4. (rare) Assigned end; conclusion.
5. (obsolete) Given or assigned length of life; duration.
   • 1611-15, George Chapman (translator), Homer (author), The Odysseys of Homer, Volume 1, Book IV,^[1] lines 282–5,

     As now Saturnius, through his life's whole date,

     Hath Nestor's bliss raised to as steep a state,

     Both in his age to keep in peace his house,

     And to have children wise and valorous.

6. A pre-arranged meeting.
   • 1903, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Lieutenant-Governor, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 121:

     "Why, Mr. Nisbet! I thought you were in New York."

     "I had a telegram this morning, calling the date off,"

7. One's companion for social activities or occasions.

9. A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? German: Date

Translations

Verb

date (third-person singular simple present dates, present participle dating, simple past and past participle dated)

1. (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.

2. (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
3. (transitive) To determine the age of something.

4. (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
5. (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.

   Synonyms: go out, see; see also Thesaurus:date

6. (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.

   Synonyms: go out, see; see also Thesaurus:date

7. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.

   Synonyms: age, elden, obsolesce; see also Thesaurus:to age

8. (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
   • 1826, Edward Everett, The Claims of Citizens of the United States of America on the Governments of Naples, Holland, and France

     The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.

Usage notes

• To note the time of writing one may say dated at or from a place.

Translations

See also

• Sabbath
• calendar

Anagrams

• AEDT, Daet, EDTA, TAED, tead

Aromanian

Numeral

date

1. Alternative form of dzatse

Danish

Etymology

From English date.

Noun

date c (singular definite daten, plural indefinite dates)

1. a date (meeting with a lover or potential lover)

   Synonyms: rendezvous, stævnemøde

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

date (imperative date, infinitive at date, present tense dater, past tense datede, perfect tense har datet)

1. to date (someone)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?te/
• Rhymes: -e?te

References

• “date” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “date,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English date.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?t/
• Hyphenation: date
• Rhymes: -e?t

Noun

date m (plural dates)

1. A date (romantic outing).

Derived terms

• blind date

Related terms

• daten

French

Etymology 1

From Old French date, a borrowing from Late Latin data, from the feminine of Latin datus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dat/

Noun

date f (plural dates)

1. date (point in time)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “date” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English date.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.it/

Noun

date m or f (plural dates)

1. (slang, anglicism) date (romantic meeting)
2. (slang, anglicism, masculine) date (person you go on a romantic meeting with)

Further reading

• https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2guides/guides/clefsfp/index-fra.html?lang=fra&lettr=indx_catlog_d&page=9iwGrR_cgy6U.html

Interlingua

Participle

date

1. past participle of dar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da.te/

Noun

date f

1. plural of data

Verb

date

1. second-person plural present of dare
2. second-person plural imperative of dare

Participle

date

1. feminine plural past participle of dare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?da.te/, [?d?ät??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?da.te/, [?d???t??]

Verb

date

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?

Participle

date

1. vocative masculine singular of datus

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin data, from the feminine of Latin data.

Noun

date f (oblique plural dates, nominative singular date, nominative plural dates)

1. date (point in time)
2. date (fruit)

Descendants

• ? English: date
• French: date

Portuguese

Verb

date

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of datar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of datar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of datar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of datar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?date/, [?d?a.t?e]

Verb

date

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dar, da and the pronoun te.