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Definition: Up-to-date |
Up-to-dateAdjective1. Reflecting the latest information or changes; "an up-to-date issue of the magazine". 2. In accord with the most fashionable ideas or style; "wears only the latest style"; "the last thing in swimwear"; "knows the newest dances"; "up-to-date technology". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Up-to-dateSynonyms: last (adj), latest (adj), newest (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
The Present Time | Adjective: present, actual, instant, current, existing, extant, that is; present-day, up-to-date, up-to-the-moment. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Up-to-date |
| English words defined with "up-to-date": latest ♦ up-to-the-minute. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "up-to-date": AHS, American Community Survey ♦ CENDATA, Customs Electronic Bulletin Board ♦ Digital Equipment Computer Users Society ♦ electoral roll, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, STATE BOARD OF NURSING ♦ frequently asked question ♦ Information File, Informed Compliance ♦ law clerk, legal aid ♦ Management Information System ♦ operational database ♦ QFR. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Dickens Up-to-Date (1923) An Up-to-Date Crook (1914) Aladdin Up-to-Date (1912) Cinderella Up-to-Date (1909) An Up-to-Date Female Drummer (1899) | |
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The R.A. Bloch Building, donated to the National Cancer Institute by several American businessmen is now the home of PDQ, an information service for physicians. The International Cancer Information Center (ICIC), the technical information office, and the JNCI staff. The building was dedicated in October 1983. The physician's data query, PDQ, is a new computerized information system developed by the National Cancer Institute to disseminate up-to-date information on cancer treatment. Using state-of-the-art computers, PDQ makes recent advances in cancer treatment readily available to physicians nationwide. Credit: Lew Bass (photographer). | Doctor sitting at his office desk accessing PDQ on his IBM computer. The Physicians Data Query was designed by the National Cancer Institute to help physicians obtain information about the most up-to-date protocols, physicians, and clinics treating cancer patients. Credit: Ernie Branson (photographer). | ||
A librarian at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is using an IBM computer to access PDQ. The Physicians Data Query was designed by the National Cancer Institute to help physicians obtain information about the most up-to-date protocols, physicians, and clinics treating cancer patients. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | Several nurses in a nurses' station, two of which are working on a computer accessing PDQ. Physicians Data Query was designed by the National Cancer Institute to help physicians and patients obtain information on protocols, physician referrals and clinics using the most up-to-date cancer treatments. Credit: Bill Branson. | ||
![]() | Strictly up-to-date construction --. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | A bulletin board serves as a central source of up-to-date war production drive information at Link Aviation Devices, Binghamton, New York. A poster urges employees to contribute ideas for speeding up production. A lunch box painted in red, white and blue. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Be up-to-date - be a U.S. Marine First to change the old campaign hat for the modern helmet / / W.A. Rogers. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Keep vaccinations up-to-date for all dogs, cats and ferrets. (references) | |
Keep accurate, up-to-date records of all the medical care you receive for cancer and other conditions. (references) | ||
To give you the most up-to-date resources, information specialists at the clearinghouse created an automatic CHID search. (references) | ||
Business | Large Guatemalan concerns have new, up-to-date technology. (references) | |
For up-to-date information contact the Trade Information Center (TIC) of the U.S. Department of Commerce. (references) | ||
At present, most companies are equipped with up-to-date equipment by closely following the developments of new technologies. (references) | ||
Children | Cyprus | Turkish Cypriot authorities screen all textbooks sent from the south to the Greek Cypriot schools, causing lengthy delays in their distribution and shortages of up-to-date texts. (references) |
Economic History | Croatia | Records are not typically up-to-date or accurate, however. (references) |
France | This service offers up-to-date information and immediate access. (references) | |
Trade | Bolivia | Interested parties should consult ASOBAN, the local Association of Banks, for the most up-to-date information on activities in this sector. (references) |
France | For agricultural products, the Office of Agricultural Affairs has an up-to-date extensive listing of labeling and packaging regulations and requirements on a product by product basis. (references) | |
Ukraine | Zero VAT rates have been established for the following: sale of certain agricultural products by farmers until 2002; import of materials and equipment used for the development of the domestic ship-building until 2005; import of materials and equipment and exports of domestically produced space and equipment until 2009; import of materials and equipment used for the development of special chemical and ammunition production industry (excluding excisable products) until 2010; imports of goods used for the development of the domestic car construction industry and exports of domestically produced or assembled cars and compartments (under the condition of making at least $150 million investment) until 2008; sale of recreation services in the Crimea resorts until 2005; and business development and work places creation in Slavutich until 2004. As the list of goods exempted from VAT changes frequently, businesses should contact a local tax expert for the most up-to-date list. (references) | |
Travel | Ukraine | Prior to travel, make sure proper immunizations are up-to-date. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Please check with the nearest Kazakhstani Embassy for up-to-date information. (references) | |
Peru | There are several clinics in the Lima area which have U.S. trained personnel and up-to-date medical equipment. (references) | |
Women | Switzerland | The difficulty in gathering information about the number of persons prosecuted, convicted, or otherwise punished for spousal abuse stems in part from the fact that legal cases are handled by each canton, and data often are not up-to-date. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Up-to-date" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Up-to-date" is used about 594 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 594 | 10,722 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "up-to-date": up-to-date-records. | |
Ending with "up-to-date": bang-up-to-date, most-up-to-date. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "up-to-date"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aktueel (current, present, present-day, topical). (various references) | |
Chinese | 最新 (Newest, up-to-the-minute), 更新 (to update). (various references) | |
Danish | aktuel (current, present, present-day, topical). (various references) | |
Dutch | actueel (current, present, present-day, topical). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aktuala (current, present, present-day, topical). (various references) | |
Finnish | uudenaikainen (fashionable, modern, new-fangled), nykyaikainen (modern, present-day), muodikas (fashionable, stylish). (various references) | |
French | actuel. (various references) | |
Frisian | op 't stuit fan betsjutting (current, present, present-day, topical), aktueel (current, present, present-day, topical). (various references) | |
German | gegenwärtig (at present, current, currently, existing, now, present, present day, present-day, presently, topical), aktuell (actual, actually, current, currently, latest, live, newsworthy, present, present-day, prevailing, relevant, timely, topical, topically, up, up to date). (various references) | |
Hungarian | idôszerû (current, present, present-day, topical), aktuális (current, current intelligence, present, present-day, topical). (various references) | |
Icelandic | núverandi (current, present, present-day, topical), nútímalegur (current, present, present-day, topical), núgildandi (current, present, present-day, topical). (various references) | |
Italian | attuale (actual, alive, current, present, present day, present-day, prevailing, topical). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ナイル鰐 (being interested only in the here and now without any regard for the future, knapsack, knuckle, knuckle ball, knuckle four, knuckle part, NASA, NASA fashion, NASDAQ, NASTAR ski, national, national ad, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, national atlas, national bank, national brand, National Center of Trade Unions, national chain, national character, national consensus, national convention, national costume, national game, national holiday, national identity, national interest, National League, national minimum, national park, national prestige, national product, national project, national security, National Standard Race ski, National Trust, nationalism, nationalist, nationality, nationalization, Nationalsozialist, NATO, Natrium lamp, natural, natural cheese, natural color, natural foods, natural grip, natural science, natural selection, natural turn, natural wave, naturalism, naturalist, naturalistic, naturalization, naturalize, Nazi, Nazism, Nile crocodile, nine, no, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, nothing, now, now-now-ism, nugget, nut, nuts, nylon, sodium, trendy), "世風 (latest), 今日的 (modern). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ナウい , ""にちてき (modern), とうせいふう (latest). (various references) | |
Korean | 최 . (various references) | |
Papiamen | aktual (current, present, present-day, topical). (various references) | |
Portuguese | que vai mais frente, mais avançado, dianteiro (fore, foremost, forward, front, headmost), atualizado (updated). (various references) | |
Romanian | tehnicã modernã (up-to-date technique). (various references) | |
Russian | новейший;современный;инф)обновленный. (various references) | |
Spanish | actual (actual, current, existing, flowing, going, present, present-day, prevailing, prevalent, reigning, topic, topical). (various references) | |
Swedish | senaste (late, up to date). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-o-p-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: outdate. | |
-2 letters: autoed, outate, outeat, patted, potted, pouted, putted, tauted, teapot, touted, update. | |
-3 letters: adept, adopt, datto, depot, opted, outed, pated, petto, putto, taped, taupe, toped, toted. | |
-4 letters: aped, apod, atop, auto, date, dato, daut, doat, dopa, dope, dote, duet, dupe, odea, oped, pate, peat, poet, pout, putt, tape, tate, taut, teat, tepa, toad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-o-p-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: deputation, outpainted, postulated. | |
+3 letters: deputations. | |
+4 letters: deputization, expostulated, outpopulated, postgraduate. | |
+5 letters: deputizations, postdebutante, postgraduates. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 70 2D 74 6F 2D 64 61 74 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01110000 00101101 01110100 01101111 00101101 01100100 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U p - t o - d a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0070 002D 0074 006F 002D 0064 0061 0074 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55821586811570678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Translations: Modern 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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