date vs decade

date

noun
  • The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made. 

  • The date palm. 

  • A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met. 

  • One's companion for social activities or occasions. 

  • A pre-arranged meeting. 

  • The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel. 

  • A point in time. 

  • Assigned end; conclusion. 

  • A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time. 

verb
  • To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with. 

  • To determine the age of something. 

  • To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution. 

  • To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates. 

  • To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other. 

  • To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned. 

  • To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc. 

  • To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of. 

decade

noun
  • A period of ten days, (history) particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars. 

  • Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns. 

  • A group, set, or series of ten 

  • A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a Glory Be and sometimes the Fatima Prayer. 

  • A period of ten years , particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9. 

  • A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance. 

  • The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1. 

  • A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits. 

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