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English Dictionary: dating by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dating
n
  1. use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens
    Synonym(s): dating, geological dating
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Date \Date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Dating}.] [Cf. F. dater. See 2d {Date}.]
      1. To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an
            instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a
            letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.
  
      2. To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the
            date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
  
      Note: We may say dated at or from a place.
  
                        The letter is dated at Philadephia. --G. T.
                                                                              Curtis.
  
                        You will be suprised, I don't question, to find
                        among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a
                        letter dated from Blois.               --Addison.
  
                        In the countries of his jornal seems to have been
                        written; parts of it are dated from them. --M.
                                                                              Arnold.
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