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Definition: Dating |
DatingNoun1. Use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
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Mining | Age determination of naturally occurrring substances or relicts by any of a variety of methods based on the amount of change, happening at a constant measurable rate, in a component. The changes may be chemical, or induced or spontaneous nuclear, and may take place over a period of time. (references) |
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- A calendar date is the name of a day according to a calendar.
- A date is also a fruit.
- A date is an occasion when one meets and goes out with a potential lover or future spouse. See: Dating
- Date, a city located in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan (In Japanese, this should be pronounced as Da Te.)
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A date is an occasion when one meets and goes out with a potential lover or future spouse. In this sense, the purpose of a date is for the people dating to get to know each other and decide whether they want to have a relationship. However, the term is also used to mean a social evening between people who have an established relationship, particularly if the goal is to relax away from day-to-day responsibilities, such as caring for children.See also:
- Dating Do's and Don'ts, a 1949 United States government movie on dating
External Links
- Love Stories is for discussing dating and dating issues.
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A dating system is any systemic means of improving matchmaking via rules or technology. It is a specialized meeting system where the objective of the meeting, be it live or phone or chat based, is to go on a live date with someone, with usually romantic implications. Recently, "couple-dating" and "friend-dating" systems have also become popular, especially among those who met on dating systems and enjoy the interactions, but have settled down with mates.The history of dating systems is as interesting as the history of technologies that support them. Live dating systems or methods are usually not considered as separate from the matchmaking process, which often employs games or rules or rituals in many cultures, so these are discussed in more depth in that article.
A notable and recent live dating system that does not seem to have arisen in traditional matchmaking is speed dating, which relies to some degree on the transportation and communication facilities of a modern society, and reflects its accelerated pace of life. There are also singles cruises and singles trips that let singles find common ground in tight spaces.
These live dating systems do not typically impose a great deal of structure on the actual interaction between the individuals considering going on dates. This article is concerned with actual 'systems' that do more than simple introductions, and where interactions are often strongly structured, down to the details:
There are also dating game shows, e.g. The Dating Game, Fifth Wheel, The Bachelor, in which a high degree of support and aids are provided to individuals seeking dates. These are described more fully in an article on them alone, and in the related article on "reality game shows" that often include or motivate romantic episodes between players.
- "Computer dating" systems of the early-to-mid 20th century, especially popular in the 1960s and 1970s, before the rise of sophisticated phone and computer systems, gave customers forms that they filled out with important tolerances and preferences, which were "matched by computer" to determine "compatibility" of the two customers.
- "Video dating" systems of the 1980s and 1990s especially, where customers gave a performance on (typically VHS tape) video, which was viewable by other customers, usually in private, in the same facility. Some services would record and play back videos for men and women on alternate days to minimize the chance that customers would meet each other on the street.
- "Phone dating" systems of about the same vintage, where customers call a common voice mail or phone-chat server at a common local phone number, and are connected with other (reputed) singles, and typically charged by the minute as if it were a long-distance call (often a very expensive one). A key problem of such systems was that they were hard to differentiate from a phone porn service or "phone sex" where female operators are paid to arouse male customers, and have no intention of dating them, ever.
- Net dating services of the 1990s and today, which may incorporate a form-, video-, or audio-/phone-based component, integrating them into a single "profile" and providing multiple means to communicate (including the telephone). Or, alternately, which may be a net porn service in disguise.
Singapore's largest dating service, Singapore's Social Development Unit (SDU) is the world's only government-run dating system.
See also
- blind date
- dating
- dating game show
- meeting system
- voting system
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Radiometric dating is the determination of the date at which materials were formed by analyzing the decay of radioactive isotopes that were incorporated into the material when it was created and which presumably have not diffused out. Probably the best known form of radiometric dating is radiocarbon dating, which uses carbon-14. Rubidum-Strontium dating is also popular.Most materials decay radioactively to some extent, but the decay rates of most are so long that, for all practical purposes, they can be considered inert. The remainder are said to be radioactive. Radioactive materials can decay in any of several ways, emitting either a particle or radiation and changing to a different element or isotope. The decay rate of radioactive materials does not depend on temperature, chemical environment, or similar factors. For dating purposes, the important parameter is the half life of the reaction — the time it takes for half the material to decay. Half lives of various isotopes vary from microseconds to billions of years. Materials useful for radiometric dating have half lives from a few thousand to a few billion years.
Some types of radiometric dating assume that the initial proportions of a radioactive substance and its decay product are known. The decay product should not be a small-molecule gas that can leak out, and must itself have a long enough half life that it will be present in significant amounts. In addition, the initial element and the decay product should not be produced or depleted in significant amounts by other reactions. The procedures used to isolate and analyze the reaction products must be straightforward and reliable.
In contrast to most systems, isochron dating using rubidium-strontium does not require knowledge of the initial proportions.
Several systems are known that satisfy these constraints including carbon-14-carbon-12, Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, K-Ar, Ar-Ar, and U-Pb. Carbon-14 has a fairly short half life and is used for dating recent organic remains. It is useful for periods up to perhaps 60,000 years and is thus very important to historians and archeologists as a method of determining the age of human artifacts. The other isotopes have half lives of hundreds of millions of years and are used for dating igneous rock formations.
Formulae related to radioactive decay
the decay constant
λ = ln(2) / Half-life
Where λ is the decay constant, the probability of the decay of a nucleus in the same units of time as half-life.
nuclei N remaining at time t
Where N is number of nuclei remaining from the initial N0 sample after time t has elapsed.
decay rate at time t
Where R is the decay rate after time t has elapsed and R0 is the initial activity.
example application
How old is a 25 gram charcoal sample that has an activity of 250 decays per minute (dpm)?
Assume Carbon-14 decays by beta particle emission to Nitrogen-14 with a half-life of 5730 years a constant ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 is 1.3 x 10-12 (see Radiocarbon_dating).
solution
1. Compute the decay constant for carbon-14 (in minutes for simplification)
λ = ln(2) / Half-life = .693/(5730yrs * 525960 min per yr) = 2.3x10-10 mins2. Compute the number of carbon nuclei in a 25 gram sample (the gram molecular weight of carbon is 12.011 grams per mole).
Number of Carbon nuclei = 25g (6.02*1023) / 12.011 = 1.26x10243. Compute the initial activity of a carbon sample
N0 = (1.3x10-12 ) * (1.26x1024) = 1.6x1012 initial number of C-14 nuclei R0 = λ * N0 = (2.3x10-10) * (1.6x1012) = 368 dpm4. Compute the elapsed time using the two computed decay rates.
250dpm = 368 dpm e-λ tln(250 dpm/370 dpm) = -2.3x10-10 t
t = 0.386/2.3x10-10 = 1.678x108mins or 3190 years
Related Articles
Radiocarbon dating Radioactivity Age of the Earth Half life Carbon Potassium Uranium Thermoluminescence dating
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The Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar was a chronology published in 1650 by Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh which attempted to deduce the date of creation from biblical references and proposed that it had occurred on October 23, 4004 BC at noon.Ussher's work, more properly known as the Annales veteris testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti ("Annals of the Old Testament, deduced from the first origins of the world"), was his contribution to the long-running theological debate on the age of the Earth. This was a major concern of many Christian scholars over the centuries. His proposed date of 4004 BC was not greatly different from the estimates of the Venerable Bede (3952 BC) or Ussher's near-contemporary, Scaliger (3950 BC). It was widely believed that the Earth's potential duration was 6,000 years - 4,000 before the birth of Christ and 2,000 after - corresponding to the six days of creation , on the grounds that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day" (2 Peter 3:8).
Although Ussher's estimate of 4004 BC seems startling to modern eyes, it was thus very much in a range already accepted by contemporary scholars. Indeed, John Lightfoot of Cambridge University had already published a very similar set of calculations in 1644, producing a nearly identical result to that of Ussher. The names of the two men are thus commonly bracketed in recognition of their shared "discovery" of the date of creation.
Ussher's Methodology
The close range of dates estimated by scholars such as Ussher was principally due to a common methodology being used to calculate the date of creation. This, as might be expected, relied on the Bible as the primary source. However, because the Bible was compiled from different sources over several centuries with differing versions and lengthy chronological gaps, it was not possible to do a simple totalling of Biblical ages and dates. In his article on Ussher's calendar, John Barr (see references at the foot of this article) has identified three distinct periods that Ussher had to tackle:
Using this methodology, Ussher was able to establish an unadjusted creation date of about 4000 BC. He moved it back to 4004 BC to take account of an error perpetrated by Dionysius Exiguus, the founder of the Christian year numbering system. The death of Herod was determined to have occurred in 4 BC, so therefore Jesus could not have been born after that date. Jesus was thus born some time between 37 BC (when Herod came to power) and 4 BC. In the event, Ussher calculated that Christ's birth year must have been 4 BC.
- Early times (Creation to Solomon). Ostensibly the easiest period, as the Bible provides an unbroken male lineage from Adam through to Solomon complete with the ages of the individuals involved. However, not all of the versions of the Bible provide the same ages - the Septuagint gives much longer ages, adding more than 1,000 years to the date of Creation. Ussher resolved this problem by relying on the Hebrew Bible instead.
- Early Age of Kings (Solomon to the destruction of the Temple and the Babylonian captivity). The lineage breaks down at this point, with only the length of the kings' reigns being provided and a number of overlaps and ambiguities complicating the picture. Ussher had to cross-reference the Biblical records with known dates of other peoples and rulers to create an overall timeline.
- Late Age of Kings (Ezra and Nehemiah to the birth of Jesus). No information at all is provided in the Bible. Ussher and his counterparts therefore had to try to link a known event from this period with a dateable event in another culture, such as the Chaldeans, Persians or Romans. For instance, the death of the Chaldean king Nebuchadnezzar II (who conquered Jerusalem in 586 BC) could be correlated with the 37th year of the exile of Jehoiachin (in 2 Kings 25:27).
The season in which creation occurred was the subject of considerable theological debate in Ussher's time. Many scholars proposed it had taken place in the spring, the start of the Babylonian, Chaldean and other cultures' chronologies. Others, including Ussher, thought it more likely that it had occurred in the autumn (fall), largely because that season marked the beginning of the Jewish year.
Ussher further narrowed down the date by using the Jewish calendar to establish creation as beginning on the first Sunday following the autumnal equinox. The day of the week was a backward calculation from the six days of creation with God resting on the seventh, which in the Jewish tradition is Saturday - hence Creation began on a Sunday. The modern date of the equinox is, however, much earlier than Ussher's date; this was simply due to the inaccuracies introduced by the Julian calendar, which Ussher calculated would add about thirty days to the date of the equinox.
The final element was the establishment of noon as the time of creation. Ussher wrote, "In ipse primi diei medio create est lux" ("In the middle of the first day, light was created"). It is not clear why he chose this particular time, as he gave no reason for doing so.
Ussher's Chronology Today
It is entirely an accident of history that Ussher's chronology remains so well known while those of Scaliger and Bede, amongst others, have slipped into obscurity. Starting about fifty years after his death, many annotated editions of the immensely influential King James translation of the Bible began to include his chronology with their annotations and cross-references. The first page of Genesis was annotated with Ussher's date of creation, 4004 BC, establishing it as the canonical Biblical estimate (although in reality, Ussher's Annales is estimated to have relied on the Bible for only one sixth of its volume). It was included in the widely distributed Scofield Reference Bible. More modern translations of the Bible omit the chronology, but there are still plenty of copies of the annotated King James still in circulation.
Ussher's work has thus become a famous - or notorious - symbol of biblical literalism. Geologists in particular have castigated his improbably short timescale, which is completely incompatible with the billions of years posited by modern geological theory. However, Young Earth Creationists (a faction of the wider creationist movement) still reference Ussher's Annales in relation to their belief that the world is approximately 6,000 years old.
See also: Estimates of the date of Creation, Young Earth Creationism.
External Links and References
- "Why the World Was Created in 4004 BC: Archbishop Ussher and Biblical Chronology" by John Barr, in Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library 67:575-608
- "Fall in the House of Ussher", in Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould, Penguin Books, 1993
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Crosswords: Dating |
| English words defined with "dating": Arabian Nights, Arabian Nights' Entertainment ♦ Chiroptera, class Coniferopsida, Coniferophyta, Coniferophytina, Coniferopsida ♦ date ♦ geological horizon, go out, go steady ♦ Hand stamp ♦ Libby ♦ order Chiroptera ♦ Prochronism ♦ Rig-Veda, rubidium-strontium dating ♦ see, subdivision Coniferophytina ♦ Thousand and One Nights ♦ Willard Frank Libby. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dating": absolute chronology, ADZING-AND-BORING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ chronometric dating, chronometric method, chronometric technique ♦ dating technique, Destructive analysis ♦ geochronology, Gether, gritch ♦ lichenometry ♦ open-end mortgage clause ♦ patio process ♦ radiometric age, radiometric dating, relative dating ♦ Seventy weeks, Sports Broadcasting Act, spread spectrum communications, SUPERVISOR, CARTON AND CAN SUPPLY, Swiss Bar Association ♦ Taligent, tie-mill operator, tree age ♦ Undernet. (references) |
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Screenplays | Like when I accused you of lying, or when I accused you of dating Joe Junior, or when I thought you were pregnant and announced it to all your friends (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric LeBow.) Is your mom dating an undertaker (The Princess Diaries; writing credit: Gina Wendkos) Soon you'll be dating sperm (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel) I wonder if she's dating one of the Yankees (Tommy Boy; writing credit: Terry Turner, Bonnie Turner, Fred Wolf) And now I've got to go out there and start dating weights, and I don't even know what dating weights mean, it's all metrics now. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) | |
Lyrics | They were dating in the park (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Maxine's Dating Service (1974) The Dating Game (1965) Extreme Dating (2003) Dating Games People Play (2003) EX-treme Dating (2002) | |
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 | A Las Vegas white, male college student, had his leg amputated above the knee when doctors discovered osteogenic sarcoma while he was a teen. He is seen here in a home bedroom setting, playing his guitar. He is presently disease-free and in college. He plays tennis, but is still shy about dating. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | In the Grotta del Genovese. This small grotto has paintings dating back some 6,000 years, including the outline of a tuna and the outline of a dolphin. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | The Canterbury Psalter, an illuminated manuscript dating from the mid-twelfth century; with illustration thought to be of Halley's Comet. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bronze relief plaque dating from the 16th century A.D., depicting a nobleman with his high "choker" of coral beads and two attendants, from the Kingdom of Benin, S. Nigeria. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Side wall of old house dating from early nineteenth century showing details of construction. Showing use of mud and moss as filling agent. Near Edgard, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | House dating from the early boom days of Silverton, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Victorian housing, Elm Street, dating from Manchester's heyday. New Hampshire. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A Spanish-American village in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains dating back to 1700 which was once a sheep raising center, Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico, a Spanish-American village in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains dating back to 1700 which was once a sheep raising center. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Ancient Roman Bath" by William J. Ray Commentary: "Another view of that ancient Roman bath dating back over 2,000 yrs." |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | France reserves the option of substituting herself as regards the rights and obligations resulting from agreements arrived at between the Government of Alsace-Lorraine and the Grand Duchy of Baden concerning the works to be carried out on the Rhine; she may also denounce such agreements within a term of five years dating from the coming into force of the present Treaty. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Dating from this time, was it chance |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In Europe, a skin rash similar to that of Lyme disease had been described in medical literature dating back to the turn of the century. (references) | |
Business | The current Italian legislation on public security, dating back to 1931, requires that firms obtain licenses from each province where the firm wishes to operate. (references) | |
With regard to production dating, while the current trend is to indicate only the expiration date, some distributors may also require labeling the date of production. (references) | ||
Dating back to its days as an airbase, Skavsta has large tarmacs that are currently little used. The airport can grow three to four times in volume within its current space. (references) | ||
Children | Japan | In previous years, both the Government and society in general appeared to take a lenient attitude toward teenage prostitution and dating for money (which may or may not have involved sexual activity). (references) |
Japan | Since April 1999, operators of pornographic home pages and suppliers of pornographic images have been required to register with local safety commissions and not to offer such pages to persons under the age of 18. According to the National Police Agency, the police arrested 108 persons between January and June for patronizing teenage prostitutes and child pornography, double the number for the same period in 2000. However, teenage prostitution and dating for money continues to be a concern. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bolivia | The decree updated a similar decree dating from 1985, which had been the subject of criticism by Catholic and non-Catholic religious groups. (references) |
Economic History | Vanuatu | Pottery fragments have been found dating back to 1300-1100 B.C. (references) |
Uzbekistan | Uzbekistan has patent, copyright, and trademark laws dating from 1996. (references) | |
Czech Rep | With a history dating back to the Middle Ages, trade shows are a European way of life. (references) | |
Human Rights | Iraq | The report detailed numerous unresolved cases dating from the early 1980's through the mid-1990's. (references) |
Djibouti | The complaint listed a series of human rights abuses and judicial abuses dating back to 1995. No action was known to have been taken by year's end. (references) | |
Yemen | Both the U.N. Committee on Disappearances and AI also continue to allege that there are hundreds of unresolved disappearances dating from the preunity period in the former PDRY, particularly from its 1986 civil war. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Guyana | Amerindian life is regulated by the Amerindian Act, legislation dating from colonial times designed to protect indigenous people from exploitation. (references) |
Honduras | Indigenous and ancestral lands often are defined poorly in documents dating back to the mid-19th century and, in most cases, lack any legal title based on modern cadastral surveys. (references) | |
Minorities | Uzbekistan | Government statistics dating from 1992 show that the population was approximately 71 percent Uzbek, 8 percent Russian, 5 percent Tajik, 4 percent Tatar, and 3 percent Kazakh, with many other ethnic groups represented as well. (references) |
Political Economy | Cape Verde | With historic links dating back hundreds of years, Cape Verde and the U.S. enjoy excellent relations. (references) |
Ireland | Labour is the oldest Irish party, dating back to 1912. Since that time, Labour has played a significant role in modernizing Irish politics. (references) | |
France | Disarray among center-right parties, the lack of a clearly defined alternative to the center-left policies of the current government, and unanswered questions about Chirac's role in scandals dating back several years limit the opposition's and Chirac's attitude. (references) | |
Trade | Egypt | Manufacturer/processor "use by" or "sell by" dating is not accepted. (references) |
Panama | Although there was a previous agreement dating to 1961, OPIC has been relatively inactive in Panama because of restrictive conditions in the enabling legislation for the original agreement. (references) | |
Uae | GCC-mandated shelf life requirements for close to 100 products and the stipulation that all processed products must carry both production and expiration dating constitute are the biggest impediments. (references) | |
Women | Colombia | It is likely that some number of marriage and dating services are covers for sex tourism activities. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | At year's end, eight prison visit requests, some dating back to 1992, still were pending. (references) |
Sri Lanka | According to the Ministry of Labor, there were 10 prosecutions for child labor (below the age of 14) during 2000. Under legislation dating from 1956, the maximum penalty for employing minors is about $12 (1,000 rupees), with a maximum jail term of 6 months. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | On the dating scene, a guy's confidence can be the key to his attractiveness. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Well, I was a non-sexually active teenager in any capacity. I was very popular in high school, I was the homecoming queen, I was senior class president. I was not at all thinking of dating in any way, shape or form. |
Steve Kroft | Kenneth Kimes says before their arrest he was just a normal guy. He even made an appearance on a dating game show on MTV. |
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| "Dating" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 84.94% of the time. "Dating" is used about 1,055 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 84.94% | 896 | 7,965 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.36% | 120 | 29,358 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.13% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.57% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,055 | N/A |
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Expressions using "dating": carbon dating ♦ chronometric dating ♦ computer dating ♦ dating potential ♦ dating routine ♦ dating technique ♦ fluorine dating ♦ heartwood dating ♦ radioactive dating ♦ radiocarbon dating ♦ sapwood dating. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "dating": post-dating, pre-dating, up-dating. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dating | 315,388 | dating agency | 495 |
dating service | 5,839 | extreme dating | 490 |
online dating | 5,532 | edmonton dating | 460 |
christian dating | 2,164 | romance dating | 451 |
free dating service | 1,462 | dating game | 388 |
free dating | 1,311 | free dating site | 353 |
dating tip | 1,155 | russian dating | 328 |
teen dating | 1,111 | online dating service | 301 |
adult dating | 1,101 | gay dating | 300 |
speed dating | 1,032 | asian dating | 291 |
interracial dating | 975 | new york dating | 289 |
dating site | 967 | on line dating | 282 |
dating advice | 966 | dating web site | 276 |
black dating | 952 | lesbian dating | 268 |
free dating online | 672 | bbw dating | 260 |
single dating | 663 | 8 minute dating | 255 |
african american dating | 652 | christian dating service | 255 |
internet dating | 589 | dating personals | 250 |
online dating services | 522 | international dating | 240 |
dating sex | 503 | houston dating | 229 |
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| Language | Translations for "dating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | datim me anë të karbonit (carbon dating), takim me ndihmën e sistemit telefonik (computer dating). (various references) | |
Chinese | 约会 (tryst). (various references) | |
Danish | dato-rutine (dating routine), dateringsmaskine (dating machine), kulstof-14 datering (radiocarbon dating), kulstof-14 bestemmelse (carbon-14 dating), C-14-datering (carbon 14 age, radiocarbon age, radiocarbon dating), C-14-alder (carbon 14 age, radiocarbon age, radiocarbon dating), alderbestemmelsesteknik (dating technique), aktualisering paa tid (up-dating at a given date). (various references) | |
Dutch | datumroutine (dating routine), dateringstechniek (dating technique), datering met koolstof 14 (carbon-14 dating), dateermachine (dating machine), techniek van de ouderdomsbepaling (dating technique), radio-koolstofouderdom (carbon 14 age, radiocarbon age, radiocarbon dating), koolstofdatering (radiocarbon dating), fluordatering (fluorine dating), C-14-ouderdom (carbon 14 age, radiocarbon age, radiocarbon dating), C 14-datering,radiokoolstofdatering (carbon-14 dating), actualisering op datum (up-dating at a given date). (various references) | |
Finnish | senaikuinen (at that time, dating from that time, of that time), päiväysrutiini (dating routine), kalium-argonmenetelmä (K-A dating), kalium-argoniänmääritys (K-A dating), jonkun aikainen (dating from, of the time of), iänmääritys radioaktiivisen hiilen avulla (carbon-14 dating, radiocarbon dating), fluori-ikämääritys (fluorine dating). (various references) | |
French | datant. (various references) | |
German | datierend. (various references) | |
Greek | ραδιοχρονολόγηση με άνθρακα-14 (carbon-14 dating), μέτρηση με άνθρακα 14,χρονολόγηση με άνθρακα 14,χρονολόγηση με ραδιοάνθρακα 14 (carbon-14 dating), μηχανή χρονολόγησης (dating machine), χρονολόγηση με ραδιενεργό άνθρακα (radiocarbon dating), χρονολόγηση με φθόριο (fluorine dating), χρονολόγηση με ίχνη σχάσεως (fission track dating), απόλυτη χρονολόγηση (absolute dating), Ρουτίνα ημερομηνίας (dating routine). (various references) | |
Indonesian | antedatering (retroactive dating). (various references) | |
Italian | datazione per radiocarbonio (carbon-14 dating), databilità (datability, dating potential), datazione al carbonio 14 (radiocarbon dating), datazione al fluoro (fluorine dating), datazione al radiocarbonio (carbon dating, carbon-14 dating, radiocarbon dating), datazione assoluta (absolute dating), datazione C-14 (carbon 14 age, radiocarbon age, radiocarbon dating), datazione mediante l'alburno (sapwood dating), determinazione al carbonio 14 (carbon-14 dating), datazione del durame (heartwood dating), tecnica di datazione (dating technique), età del radiocarbonio (carbon 14 age, radiocarbon age, radiocarbon dating), attualizzazione a scadenza o a traguardo (up-dating at a given date), età determinata dal tenore in radiocarbonio (carbon 14 age, radiocarbon age, radiocarbon dating), macchina per datare (dating machine), metodo cronometrico (chronometric dating, chronometric method, chronometric technique, dating technique), programma di scrittura della data (dating routine), radiodatazione (radioactive dating), routine di datazione (dating routine), cronologia assoluta (absolute dating). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 日付け (date), 日付 (date). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひづけ (date), かづけ (date). (various references) | |
Korean | 날자를 기입. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dataçao por carbono 14 (carbon dating, carbon-14 dating, radiocarbon dating), dataçao no alburno (sapwood dating), dataçao do cerne (heartwood dating), datação pelo método K/Ar (K-A dating), datação pelo flúor (fluorine dating), datação pelo carbono radioactivo (radiocarbon dating), datação pelo carbono 14 (carbon-14 dating), técnica de datação (dating technique), rotina datadora (dating routine), potencial de dataçao (datability, dating potential), método cronométrico (chronometric dating, chronometric method, chronometric technique, dating technique), máquina para datar (dating machine). (various references) | |
Romanian | datare. (various references) | |
Russian | датировать датирование. (various references) | |
Scottish | Gearran (a gelding, February, garron, the 4 weeks dating from 15th March onwards. This forms a part of the animal nomenclature given to the several periods of Spring-time: first the). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zabavljanje (jinks). (various references) | |
Spanish | determinación de la edad por el carbono 14,técnica del carbono 14 (carbon-14 dating), datación absoluta (absolute dating), datación con carbono-14 (carbon-14 dating), datación por 14C (carbon dating, carbon-14 dating, radiocarbon dating), datación por el duramen (heartwood dating), datación por la albura (sapwood dating), datación radiactiva (radioactive dating), databilidad (datability, dating potential), determinación de la edad por carbono radiactivo (radiocarbon dating), datación radiocarbónica (carbon dating, carbon-14 dating, radiocarbon dating), técnica de determinación de la edad (dating technique), edad absoluta (absolute dating), fechado al flúor (fluorine dating), método cronométrico (chronometric dating, chronometric method, chronometric technique, dating technique), maquina de fechar (dating machine), potencial de datación (datability, dating potential), programa de registro de las fechas (dating routine), técnica cronométrica (chronometric dating, chronometric method, chronometric technique, dating technique). (various references) | |
Swedish | dateringsrutin (dating routine), kol-fjorton-datering (carbon 14 age, radiocarbon age, radiocarbon dating), kol-fjorton-ålder (carbon 14 age, radiocarbon age, radiocarbon dating), kol-14-metoden (carbon dating), kol-14-datering (carbon 14 age, carbon-14 dating, radiocarbon age, radiocarbon dating), kol-14-ålder (carbon 14 age, radiocarbon age, radiocarbon dating), kalium-argondatering (K-A dating), flourtest (fluorine dating). (various references) | |
Turkish | karbon miktarı ölçümüyle madde yaşının tesbiti (carbon dating). (various references) | |
Welsh | amseriad (date, tempo, timing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "dating": accommodating, antedating, backdating, consolidating, denudating, depredating, dilapidating, elucidating, emendating, fecundating, fluoridating, foredating, gradating, intimidating, inundating, invalidating, iodating, lapidating, liquidating, mandating, misdating, nonintimidating, outdating, oxidating, postdating, predating, reconsolidating, redating, revalidating, sedating, subinfeudating, unaccommodating, updating, validating. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dating": accommodatingly, intimidatingly. (additional references) | |
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"Dating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daig, daign, daitling, daitng, daling, daning, Dantzig, d'asino, Datang, dateing, daten, dati, Datin, datings, Datini, dation, daton, Datong, dauting, dawing, daying, derating, Detling, diting, doating, doatting, dutfin, Dvaitin, dyading, iating, tating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dating" (pronounced dā"ting) |
| 5 | d ā" t i ng | sedating, updating. |
| 4 | -ā" t i ng | annotating, abating, awaiting, baiting, berating, crating, creating, debating, deflating, elating, equating, grating, hating, inflating, innovating, mating, misstating, negating, plating, rating, reinstating, relating, restating, skating, stating, translating, waiting, weighting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, babysitting, backbiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, daunting, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, wanting, wasting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-n-t" | |
-1 letter: giant. | |
-2 letters: adit, agin, anti, dang, ding, dint, dita, gadi, gain, gait, gnat, tain, tang, ting. | |
-3 letters: aid, ain, ait, and, ani, ant, dag, dig, din, dit, gad, gan, gat, gid, gin, git, nag, nit, tad, tag, tan, tin. | |
-4 letters: ad, ag, ai, an, at, id, in, it, na, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-n-t" | |
+1 letter: darting, dauting, dawting, dingbat, doating, trading. | |
+2 letters: adapting, adopting, antidrug, auditing, dartling, daunting, debating, delating, derating, dilating, dingbats, donating, drafting, dratting, gradient, ideating, indagate, iodating, redating, sedating, standing, steading, toadying, treading, updating. | |
+3 letters: abducting, addicting, adducting, adjusting, admitting, adulating, advecting, adverting, astringed, attending, decanting, defatting, defeating, deflating, demasting, denigrate, departing, deratting, desalting, designate, detaching, detailing, detaining, deviating, dictating, digitalin, dignitary, disrating, draftings, educating, geminated, gradating, gradation, gradients, granitoid, gratineed, hydrating, indagated, indagates, indagator, indignant, ingrafted, integrand, magnitude, mandating, mediating, misdating, navigated, negatived, outadding, outdaring, outdating, outgained, oxidating, paginated, predating, radiating, redacting, retarding, standings, steadings, steadying, stranding, threading, traducing, tragedian, treadling, twaddling, updarting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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