Dateline

  

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Dateline

Definitions: Dateline

Dateline

Noun

1. An imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian.

2. A line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch.

Verb

1. Mark with a date, and often with a place, to, as of a newspaper article or a letter.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Dateline

Synonyms: date line (n), datemark (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dateline

English words defined with "dateline": date. (references)

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Modern Usage: Dateline

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Look, we're burning daylight on the international dateline. (Call Me Claus; writing credit: Paul Mooney; Sara Bernstein)

Movie/TV Titles

Dateline Diamonds (1965)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Dateline

DomainTitle

Books

  • Dateline 2000: The New Higher Education Agenda (reference)

  • Dateline Hollywood: Sins and Scandals of Yesterday and Today (reference)

  • Dateline Kenya: The Media Paintings of Joseph Bertiers (reference)

  • Dateline Soweto: Travels With Black South African Reporters (reference)

  • Montana Dateline (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Dateline

"Dateline" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Dateline" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)71.43%2569,787
Noun (singular)22.86%8124,375
Lexical Verb (infinitive)2.86%1339,140
Lexical Verb (base form)2.86%1339,140
                    Total100.00%35N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dateline

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dateline

2,204

dateline nbc

1,118

dateline msnbc

123

dateline msnbc.com

93

dateline news

41

international dateline

40

dateline nbc.com

29

archive dateline

27

casual sex dateline

24

dateline show tv

24
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Dateline

Language Translations for "dateline"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

datolinje (calendar line). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

datumlijn (calendar line), datumgrens (calendar line, date line, international date line). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

päivämääräraja (calendar line). (various references)

   

French

  

ligne de changement de date (date line, international date line). (various references)

   

German

  

Datumsgrenze, fem., Datumsgrenze (calendar line, date line). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γραμμή αλλαγής ημερομηνίας (calendar line). (various references)

   

Italian

  

linea del cambio di data (calendar line). (various references)

   

Manx

  

date-linney. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atelineday.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

дата и место. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

linea de cambio de fecha (calendar line). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

datumgräns (calendar line, date line, international date line). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Tarih Belirten Satır, Gündeğişme Çizgisi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dateline

Derivations

Words beginning with "dateline": datelined, datelines. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dateline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deeline, Dentelin, detillin, duteplase, matalino. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Dateline"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "dateline" (pronounced dā"tlī'n)
4-t l ī' ncoastline, frontline, hotline, outline, waistline.
3-l ī' nairline, alkaline, anticline, baseline, bloodline, borderline, byline, crystalline, deadline, dragline, feline, guideline, hairline, hardline, headline, hemline, lifeline, mainline, midline, multiline, online, pipeline, shoreline, sideline, skyline, strandline, streamline, Timberline, underline.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Dateline

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: entailed, lineated.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-n-t"

-1 letter: aliened, delaine, latened, lineate.

-2 letters: aedile, aedine, alined, aneled, anteed, delate, denial, dental, dentil, detail, detain, dilate, elated, endite, entail, ideate, lateen, leaden, leaned, nailed, tailed, tenail, teniae, tineal.

-3 letters: ailed, alien, aline, anele, anile, anted, dealt, delta, diene, eaten, edile, elain, eland, elate, elide, elint, elite, enate, entia, ideal, inlet, laden, lated, laten, leant, liane, lined, naled, nidal, teind, telae, telia, tenia, tidal, tilde, tiled, tinea, tined.

-4 letters: adit, aide, alee, alit, anil, ante, anti, dale, date, deal, dean, deet, deil, dele, deli, delt, dene, deni, dent, dial, diel, diet, dine, dint, dita, dite, edit, eide, elan, etna, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lain, land, lane, late, lati, lead, lean, leet, lend, lent, lied, lien, line, lint, lite, nail, neat, need, nide, nite, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, teal, teed, teel, teen, tela, tele, tend, tide, tied, tile, tine.

-5 letters: aid, ail, ain, ait, ale, alt, and, ane, ani, ant, ate, dal, dee, del, den, die, din, dit, eat, eel, eld, end, eta, lad, lat, lea, led, lee, lei, let, lid, lie, lin, lit, nae, nee, net, nil, nit, tad, tae, tan, tea, ted, tee, tel, ten, tie, til, tin.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-n-t"
 

+1 letter: alienated, alimented, datelined, datelines, delineate, demential, tailender, toenailed.

 

+2 letters: adulterine, credential, delaminate, delegating, delegation, delineated, delineates, delineator, derailment, desalinate, dilettante, eliminated, endothelia, evidential, heulandite, indelicate, interlaced, interplead, myelinated, pedimental, planetwide, reinflated, tailenders, ventilated.

 

+3 letters: acetanilide, alexandrite, binucleated, centralised, centralized, clandestine, credentials, deceptional, deferential, delaminated, delaminates, delectation, delegations, delineating, delineation, delineative, delineators, denticulate, derailments, desalinated, desalinates, detasseling, detrimental, dilettantes, disablement, disentailed, disentangle, endometrial, endothelial, eternalized, gelatinized, geniculated, heulandites, interallied, interdealer, interdental, interlapped, interlarded, interleaved, interplayed, interpleads, lionhearted, neutralised, neutralized, pedestaling, pentlandite, reimplanted, reinstalled, residential, streamlined, unalienated, unliberated.

 

+4 letters: acetanilides, alexandrites, andouillette, cantilevered, cladogenetic, credentialed, decelerating, deceleration, decentralize, dechlorinate, deescalating, deescalation, delectations, deliberating, deliberation, delicatessen, delineations, denaturalize, denticulated, deregulating, deregulation, detailedness, detasselling, determinable, determinably, detrimentals, differential, disablements, disentangled, disentangles, displacement, endothelioma, evidentially, expediential, externalised, externalized, glycerinated, identifiable, inadequately, indelicately, intercalated, interdealers, interlayered, internalised, internalized, interplanted, interpleaded, interpleader, interpolated, interrelated, lepidopteran, nucleotidase, orientalized, overinflated, pedestalling, pentlandites, postdeadline, presidential, radioelement, reinoculated, restrainedly, sedimentable, ultrarefined, unalleviated, undefoliated, unmyelinated, unventilated, ventromedial.

 

+5 letters: andouillettes, candlelighted, candlelighter, clandestinely, considerately, coresidential, countervailed, credentialing, credentialism, credentialled, decelerations, decentralized, decentralizes, dechlorinated, dechlorinates, deescalations, deferentially, deliberations, delicatessens, demyelinating, demyelination, denationalize, denaturalized, denaturalizes, deniabilities, dependability, deprecatingly, derealization, deregulations, determinantal, determinately, detrimentally, dieselization, differentials, disenthralled, dismantlement, displacements, emotionalized, endotheliomas, essentialized, expendability, extendability, hyperinflated, identicalness, inadvertently, indefatigable, interdentally, interpellated, interpleaders, interpleading, kindheartedly, lepidopterans, metronidazole, multitalented, nearsightedly, nondeliberate, nonmyelinated, nucleotidases, occidentalize, pentaploidies, polybutadiene, predominately, radioelements, rattlebrained, reconsolidate, residentially, technicalized, thiabendazole, underinflated, unestablished, unmetabolized, unpredictable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dateline


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 61 74 65 6C 69 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100001 01110100 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#97 &#116 &#101 &#108 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0061 0074 0065 006C 0069 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3867867178758071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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