Fig vs. Date — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fig and Date
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Definitions
Fig
Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Ficus, especially F. carica, native to the Mediterranean region and widely cultivated for its edible multiple fruit.
Date
The time stated in terms of the day, month, and year
What is the date of your birth?.
Fig
The sweet, hollow, pear-shaped, multiple fruit of this plant, having many tiny seedlike fruits.
Date
A statement of calendar time, as on a document.
Fig
Any of several plants bearing similar fruit.
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Date
A particular point or period of time at which something happened or existed, or is expected to happen
The date of their wedding.
Fig
The fruit of such a plant.
Date
Dates The years of someone's birth and death
Beethoven's dates were 1770 to 1827.
Fig
A trivial or contemptible amount
Not worth a fig.
Date
The time during which something lasts; duration
"Summer's lease hath all too short a date" (Shakespeare).
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Fig
Dress; array
In full fig.
Date
The time or historical period to which something belongs
Artifacts of a later date.
Fig
Physical condition; shape
In fine fig.
Date
An appointment
A luncheon date with a client.
Fig
To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
Date
An engagement to go out socially with another person, often out of romantic interest.
Fig
(obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
Date
One's companion on such an outing.
Fig
(obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
Date
An engagement for a performance
Has four singing dates this month.
Fig
To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
Date
The sweet, edible, oblong or oval fruit of the date palm, containing a narrow, hard seed.
Fig
(intransitive) To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
Date
A date palm.
Fig
A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
Date
To mark or supply with a date
Date a letter.
Fig
The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
Date
To determine the date of
Date a fossil.
Fig
A small piece of tobacco.
Date
To betray the age of
Pictures of old cars date the book.
Fig
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
Date
To go on a date or dates with.
Fig
A raisin (dried grape)
Date
To have origin in a particular time in the past
This statue dates from 500 BC.
Fig
The Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana". (Cultivar of Musa acuminata.)
Date
To become old-fashioned.
Fig
A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.
Date
To go on dates.
Fig
The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.
Date
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.
We made a nice cake from dates.
Fig
A small piece of tobacco.
Date
The date palm.
There were a few dates planted around the house.
Fig
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; - used in scorn or contempt.
Date
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 of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin, etc.
US date : 05/24/08 = Tuesday, May 24th, 2008. UK date : 24/05/08 = Tuesday 24th May 2008.
Fig
Figure; dress; array.
Were they all in full fig, the females with feathers on their heads, the males with chapeaux bras?
Date
A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
The date for pleading
The start date for the festival is September 2.
Do you know the date of the wedding?
We had to change the dates of the festival because of the flooding.
Fig
To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.
When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me likeThe bragging Spaniard.
Date
A point in time.
You may need that at a later date.
Fig
To put into the head of, as something useless o contemptible.
Date
(rare) Assigned end; conclusion.
Fig
A diagram or picture illustrating textual material;
The area covered can be seen from Figure 2
Date
(obsolete) Given or assigned length of life; duration.
Fig
Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
Date
A pre-arranged meeting.
I arranged a date with my Australian business partners.
Fig
A Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi
Date
One's companion for social activities or occasions.
I brought Melinda to the wedding as my date.
Fig
Fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried
Date
A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
We really hit it off on the first date, so we decided to meet the week after.
We slept together on the first date.
The cinema is a popular place to take someone on a date.
Date
(transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
To date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter
Date
(transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
Date
(transitive) To determine the age of something.
To date the building of the pyramids
Date
(transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
Date
To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
Date
To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
They met a couple of years ago, but have been dating for about five months.
Date
(ambitransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
This show hasn't dated well.
The comedian dated himself by making quips about bands from the 1960s.
Date
To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
Date
The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
Date
That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc.
And bonds without a date, they say, are void.
Date
The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle.
He at once,Down the long series of eventful time,So fixed the dates of being, so disposedTo every living soul of every kindThe field of motion, and the hour of rest.
Date
Assigned end; conclusion.
What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date.
Date
Given or assigned length of life; dyration.
Good luck prolonged hath thy date.
Through his life's whole date.
Date
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.
Date
To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
The letter is dated at Philadephia.
You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois.
In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them.
Date
To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; - with from.
The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.
Date
The specified day of the month;
What is the date today?
Date
A particular day specified as the time something will happen;
The date of the election is set by law
Date
A meeting arranged in advance;
She asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date
Date
A particular but unspecified point in time;
They hoped to get together at an early date
Date
The present;
They are up to date
We haven't heard from them to date
Date
A participant in a date;
His date never stopped talking
Date
The particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred;
He tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class
Date
Sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
Date
Go on a date with;
Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart
Date
Stamp with a date;
The package is dated November 24
Date
Assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of;
Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings
Date
Date regularly; have a steady relationship with;
Did you know that she is seeing an older man?
He is dating his former wife again!
Date
Provide with a dateline; mark with a date;
She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated
