Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Up-to-date

Definition: Up-to-date

Up-to-date

Adjective

1. 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-date

Synonyms: last (adj), latest (adj), newest (adj). (additional references)

Top     

Synonyms within Context: Up-to-date

ContextSynonyms 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.

Top     

Crosswords: Up-to-date

English words defined with "up-to-date": latestup-to-the-minute. (references)
Specialty definitions using "up-to-date": AHS, American Community SurveyCENDATA, Customs Electronic Bulletin BoardDigital Equipment Computer Users Societyelectoral roll, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, STATE BOARD OF NURSINGfrequently asked questionInformation File, Informed Compliancelaw clerk, legal aidManagement Information Systemoperational databaseQFR. (references)

Top     

Modern Usage: Up-to-date

DomainUsage

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)

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

Top     

Commercial Usage: Up-to-date

DomainTitle

Books

  • Choices : The New, most up-to-date Sourcebook for Cancer Information (reference)

  • Medical Dictionary : A Concise and Up-To-Date Guide to Medical Terms (reference)

  • NTC's Super-Mini American Idioms Dictionary : The Most Practical and Up-to-Date Guide to Contemporary American Idioms (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

Top     

Image Slideshow: Up-to-date

Illustrations:
Up-to-date

More pictures...

Top     

Photo Album: Up-to-date

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

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.

Top     

Non-Fiction Usage: Up-to-date

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

Top     

Usage Frequency: Up-to-date

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%59410,722

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

Top     

Expressions: Up-to-date

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.

Top     

Modern Translation: Up-to-date

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 

  

. (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.

Top     

Anagrams: Up-to-date

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Up-to-date


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

55 70 2D 74 6F 2D 64 61 74 65

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

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

01010101 01110000 00101101 01110100 01101111 00101101 01100100 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#112 &#45 &#116 &#111 &#45 &#100 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 0070 002D 0074 006F 002D 0064 0061 0074 0065

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

55821586811570678671

Top     



INDEX

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


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.