dating

CEFRB1

/ˈdeɪt.ɪŋ/

noun · verb

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noun
Meeting people in order to develop a romantic relationship.
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noun
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An estimation of the age of an artifact, biological vestige, linguistic usage, etc.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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The setting of a date on which an event or transaction is to take place or take effect.
A form of romantic courtship typically between two individuals with the aim of assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse.

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Janet was surprised at how much casual dating had changed since she was last single.
We met on a popular dating app.
1922 (July), A. E. Douglass, "Some aspects of the use of the annual rings of trees in climatic study". The Scientific Monthly 15(1): 5-21. A comparison in seven sequoias between very careful counting and accurate dating in 2,000 years shows an average countin...

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Finally, with the exception of the rug in the paintings of Willem Duyster, the datings of both groups approximately agree;
1991, Onno Ydema, Carpets and Their Dating in Netherlandish Paintings, 1540-1700, page 120
The results almost always used to illustrate this are the datings of human bones from the Sct. Drotten Church in Lund.
1998, Niels Lynnerup, The Greenland Norse, footnote, page 46
Different dendrochronological datings have different veracity. The veracity of a dendrochronological dating depends on the certainty of the collations on the dendrochronological scale.
2007, Anatoly Fomenko, History: Fiction or Science?: Chronology 1, page 73
But C.O.D. datings are relatively rare. They are so disliked by buyers that they are used by sellers only when the latter are quite uncertain of a buyer's ability and willingness to pay.
1967, Delbert J. Duncan, Charles Franklin Phillips, Retailing: Principles and Methods, page 352
Pressure from unemployment for retrenchment is evident for the "early" as well as "best" datings of retrenchment. However, when retrenchment datings lean toward earlier years, unemployment is not the preeminent factor among the various accelerators and decelerators of retrenchment that it is for the more balanced "best" datings of Table 7.2 (or that it is, as we shall see, for the "late" datings).
1999, Alexander M. Hicks, Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism, page 227

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