Date or dates may refer to:
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Date (fruit), the fruit of the date palm (''Phoenix dactylifera'')
Social activity
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Dating, a form of courtship involving social activity, with the aim of assessing a potential partner
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Group dating
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Play date
Play date or playdate is an expression, primarily used in the United States, for an arranged appointment for children to meet and play. It should not be confused with dating as there is no implied romantic component.
Play dates have become co ...
, an appointment for children to get together for a few hours
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Meeting
A meeting is when two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal or business setting, but meetings also occur in a variety of other environments. Meetings can be used as form of group decision making.
Defini ...
, when two or more people come together
Chronology
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Calendar date
A calendar date is a reference to a particular day represented within a calendar system. The calendar date allows the specific day to be identified. The number of days between two dates may be calculated. For example, "25 " is ten days after " ...
, a day on a calendar
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Old Style and New Style dates, from before and after the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar
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ISO 8601, an international standard covering date formats
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Date (metadata), a representation term to specify a calendar date
**DATE command, a
system time command for displaying the current date
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Chronological dating, attributing to an object or event a date in the past
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Radiometric dating, dating materials such as rocks in which trace radioactive impurities were incorporated when they were formed
Arts, entertainment and media
Music
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Date (band), a Swedish dansband
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"Date" (song), a 2009 song from ''Mr. Houston''
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Date Records Date Records was a sub-label of Columbia Records which had two different incarnations. The first incarnation was a short-lived rockabilly label in 1958 which included a release by Billy "Crash" Craddock. The more significant incarnation was relau ...
, a subsidiary of Columbia Records
Film and television
*"Date", an
episode of the British sitcom ''Miranda''
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''Dates'' (TV series), a British romantic drama series
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"Dates" (''Only Fools and Horses''), a 1988 episode of the BBC sitcom
Places
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Date, Fukushima
is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 59,625 in 22,843 households and a population density of 220 persons per km2. The total area of the city was .
Geography
Date occupies the eastern half of the F ...
, Japan
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Date District, Fukushima, Japan
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Date, Hokkaido
is a city in Iburi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. Date was established around 1869, and became a city on April 1, 1972.
History
Remains of settlements from the Jōmon period have been found in the Date area. The Ainu, the native inhabitants of ...
, Japan
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Date, South Dakota, United States
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Date City, California, United States
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Dateland, Arizona, United States
Other uses
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Date (surname), a family name in Japan and elsewhere, including a list of people with the name
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Date clan, a Japanese samurai kin group
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Design Automation and Test in Europe, a yearly conference on electronic design automation
See also
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Blind date (disambiguation)
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Dating (disambiguation)
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Double date (disambiguation)
A double date or group date is a romantic or social activity involving more than one couple.
Double date or double dating may also refer to:
* ''Double Date'' (film), a 1941 American comedy film
* "Double Date" (''How I Met Your Mother''), a te ...
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Mystery Date (disambiguation) '' Mystery Date'' is a 1991 American teen comedy film.
Mystery Date may also refer to:
* ''Mystery Date'' (game), a board game from the Milton Bradley Company
* "Mystery Date" (''Mad Men''), an episode of the American AMC series ''Mad Men''
*" Mis ...
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