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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DATEABLE</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="date"> date (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the sweet fruit of a kind of palm tree. Dates are oblong and fleshy with a single hard seed and grow in large clusters. <DD> 2. the tree that bears it; date palm. </DL> <A NAME="dateable"> dateable, adjective. =datable.</DL> <A NAME="datebook"> datebook, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a book used for noting important days, events, appointments, expenditures, and the like. </DL> <A NAME="dated"> dated, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. marked with a date; showing a date on it. <DD> 2. out-of-date. Ex. Jazzy and theatrically insistent, they [torch songs by Kurt Weill] have a lot of fascination, even if they are as dated as an Emil Jannings movie (New Yorker). (SYN) passe. adv. datedly. noun datedness. </DL> <A NAME="dateless"> dateless, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. without a date; not dated. <DD> 2. endless; unlimited. <DD> 3. so old that it cannot be given a date. Ex. from dateless usage (Wordsworth). <DD> 4. old but enduring; ageless. <DD> 5. (Informal.) without social appointments. </DL> <A NAME="dateline"> date line,<DL COMPACT><DD> an imaginary line agreed upon as the place where each calendar day first begins; International Date Line. It runs north and south through the Pacific, mostly along the 180th meridian. When it is Sunday just east of the date line, it is Monday just west of it. Ex. The date line ... was set up by agreement between commercial steamship lines (Bernhard, Bennett, and Rice). </DL> <A NAME="dateline"> dateline, noun, verb, -lined, -lining.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a line, especially in a letter or newspaper article, giving the date and often the place of writing. <DD>v.t. to give a dateline to; inscribe with a dateline. Ex. to dateline a newspaper story. </DL> <A NAME="datemark"> datemark, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a mark noting the time of manufacture, shipping, etc. <DD>v.t. to provide with a datemark. </DL> <A NAME="datepalm"> date palm,<DL COMPACT><DD> a tree on which dates grow, having a crown of large, feathershaped leaves. It belongs to the palm family. Most date palms are from 40 to 100 feet high. </DL> <A NAME="dateplum"> date plum,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the fruit of any of various trees, such as the persimmon. <DD> 2. any of these trees. </DL> <A NAME="dater"> dater, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who dates. <DD> 2. a machine for stamping dates. </DL> <A NAME="daterape"> date rape,<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of having forced sexual intercourse with a female while on a social date. </DL> <A NAME="datesugar"> date sugar,<DL COMPACT><DD> sugar made from the sap or fruit of the date palm. </DL> <A NAME="datil"> datil, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several South American palms whose leaves yield a fiber braided into hats and baskets. </DL> <A NAME="dating"> dating, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the practice or an instance of having social engagements with a person or persons of the opposite sex. <DD> 2. a term of sale meaning that the time (usually 30, 60, or 90 days) allowed for the payment of the merchandise does not begin to run until a specified future date. </DL> <A NAME="datism"> Datism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> brokenness or incorrectness of speech natural to a foreigner; a fault or mistake in speaking a foreign language. Ex. We can understand that a small Athenian boy should commit a Datism in Latin (Saturday Review). </DL> <A NAME="dative"> dative, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. showing the indirect object of a verb or the object of a preposition. Latin and some other languages have a dative case. In English, the dative function is expressed by word order or a prepositional phrase: Give him the book. Give the book to him. In the Latin, Puero librum dedit, "He gave the boy a book," puero (indirect object) is in the dative case. In Puero est liber ("a book is to the boy"), the dative case shows possession. <DD> 2. (Law.) <DD> a. that can be given or disposed of at one's pleasure. <DD> b. (of an officer) that can be removed. <DD>noun 1. the dative case. <DD> 2. a word in this case. adv. datively. </DL> <A NAME="dato"> dato or datto, noun, pl. -tos.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the chief of a Moro tribe in the Philippines. <DD> 2. the headman of a barrio (village) or tribe in Malay countries. </DL> <A NAME="datolite"> datolite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a complex silicate containing boron and calcium, found as glassy crystals in various colors. </DL> <A NAME="datum"> datum, noun, pl. -ta.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a fact from which conclusions can be drawn. <DD> 2. something known or assumed as fact. Ex. The head as well as the heart declines to accept any single datum as final (Saturday Review). </DL> <A NAME="datumlevel"> datum level, line, plane, or point,<DL COMPACT><DD> a level, line, plane, or point, from which heights and depths are measured in engineering and surveying. </DL> <A NAME="datura"> datura, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. any one of a group of coarse, bad-smelling plants of the nightshade family, having funnel-shaped flowers, prickly pods, and narcotic properties, such as the jimson weed; thorn apple. <DD> 2. the flower of one of these plants. </DL> <A NAME="daturism"> daturism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> poisoning by datura or stramonium. </DL> <A NAME="dau"> dau.,<DL COMPACT><DD> daughter. </DL> <A NAME="daub"> daub, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to cover with plaster, clay, mud, or any soft material that will stick. Ex. The mason filled the cracks in the wall by daubing them with cement. <DD> 2. to apply (greasy or sticky stuff) to a surface. (SYN) smear. <DD> 3. to make dirty; soil; stain. Ex. Your skirt is daubed with mud. (SYN) sully, defile. <DD> 4a. to paint (something) unskillfully. <DD> b. to lay on (colors) unskillfully. Ex. The Prime Minister himself daubed in some glaring new patches of color (Time). <DD>v.i. 1. to daub something. <DD> 2. to paint unskillfully. Ex. She is no artist; she just daubs. <DD> 3. (Archaic.) to put on a false show. <DD>noun 1. anything daubed on. Ex. Just a few daubs of glue will mend the plate. <DD> 2. a picture that shows a lack of skill in the painting. <DD> 3. an act of daubing. <DD> 4. material for daubing, such as rough plaster or mortar. </DL> <A NAME="daube"> daube, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a dish of braised meat and vegetables. </DL> <A NAME="dauber"> dauber, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person or thing that daubs. <DD> 2. something to daub with, such as a brush to spread shoe polish. <DD> 3. an unskillful painter. <DD> 4. =mud dauber. </DL> <A NAME="daubery"> daubery, noun, pl. -eries.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a daubing. <DD> 2. the work of a dauber. </DL> <A NAME="daubry"> daubry, noun, pl. -ries. =daubery.</DL> <A NAME="dauby"> dauby, adjective, daubier, daubiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or like a daub. <DD> 2. that daubs. </DL> <A NAME="daud"> daud, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD> 1. to throw. <DD> 2. to throw things at. </DL> <A NAME="daughter"> daughter, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1a. a female child. A girl is the daughter of her father and mother. (Abbr:) dau. <DD> b. a daughter-in-law. <DD> c. a kindly term of address to a girl as from an older person, priest, or the like. <DD> 2a. a female descendant. Women are sometimes figuratively called daughters of Eve. <DD> b. (Figurative.) a girl or woman attached to a country, cause, organization, project, or other undertaking, as a child is to its parents. Ex. a daughter of France, daughters of liberty. A daughter of our meadows (Tennyson). <DD> c. anything thought of as a daughter in relation to its origin. Ex. The Romance tongues are the daughters of the Latin language. <DD>adj. 1. like a daughter. <DD> 2. of a daughter. <DD> 3. (Biology.) having the relationship of offspring of the first generation, or resulting from a primary division or segmentation. See also daughter chromosome. </DL> <A HREF="daunt.dic">NEXT</A>