What's the difference between bygone and dated?

Bygone


Definition:

  • (a.) Past; gone by.
  • (n.) Something gone by or past; a past event.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And a telling line said by one character about Gustave's desire to recreate a bygone era could almost be Anderson's own epitaph: "His world had vanished long before he entered it.
  • (2) Though he thought it among his finest works, for many its accounts of bygone bureaucratic battles and reliance on internal memos render it a work of reference only.
  • (3) What better reason to get rid of it as an economically and ethically unjustifiable anachronism from a bygone age, exploited now only by the richest in our society so that they can get richer at cost to all the rest of us?
  • (4) The Alabama county argues that Section 5 is an unconstitutional infringement on "state sovereignty", and a relic from the bygone days of poll taxes and literacy tests.
  • (5) Adapted from a short story by Stephen King , the film was pure fiction – and in any case was set in a bygone age, when prisons everywhere were less open to scrutiny – so it was easy to suspend disbelief at that particular aspect of the storyline.
  • (6) Paleopathology is the study of human ailments in bygone times of which written records are non-existent or inadequate.
  • (7) Those of a more forgiving nature were perhaps willing to let bygones be bygones, especially given that the club can now look forward to a third successive season in the Premier League after the mid-season arrival of Pardew.
  • (8) Perhaps it was easier to tell the patient the diagnosis of cancer or its poor prognosis in bygone days than nowadays, when the wonders of modern medicine are too much publicized.
  • (9) It risks making visiting restaurants obsolete, just another bygone historical ritual, such as medieval banquets.
  • (10) Robert Senior, the chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi, said: "The world of one-way communications is a bygone era.
  • (11) In 2010, an international team of researchers drilled almost 500 metres below the deepest part of the Dead Sea bed to bring up evidence of a series of epic bygone droughts, when the trapped water evaporated to precipitate deep, dense beds of salts.
  • (12) It doesn’t matter that the policies are from a bygone era.
  • (13) Economists normally advise that bygones should be bygones, but this might be the time to remember past favours.
  • (14) Monday mornings will continue to bring them the realities of school and discipline, but at least they will be spared the embarrassment of shouting the antiquated slogans of a bygone era.
  • (15) Will rooftop panels soon resemble the relics of a bygone energy age, like the enormous cooling towers of coal-fired power stations?
  • (16) As all the power-imbalanced recruitment is done out of sight, society is spared the scenes of desperate people queueing in the street for work, which was on full public view during bygone eras, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t still there in what could be termed “post-ethical” phantom form.
  • (17) This body is populated by a motley collection of amateurs; leftovers from a bygone age, when Ukip was a ragtag band of volunteers on the fringes of British politics.
  • (18) Lord Steyn explained: "The part of section 3 of the 1848 Act which appears to criminalise the advocacy of republicanism is a relic of a bygone age, and does not fit into the fabric of our modern legal system.
  • (19) I'm always going to wonder why we can't just let bygones be bygones.
  • (20) Sylvia evokes a bygone era when iconoclastic young poets used to gather on weekends and listen to the latest recording of Robert Lowell reading his work.

Dated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Date

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Guillain Barré syndrome following herpes zoster is rare and only 25 cases have been reported to date.
  • (2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (3) The immunological methods based on the use of a flagellum-specific serum have confirmed the presence of a common flagellum antigen for all Legionella species described to date.
  • (4) It is the smallest avian tumor virus RNA detected to date.
  • (5) A relatively new method of estimating that date and constructing a corresponding Kaplan Meier curve is presented.
  • (6) Measurement of traffic through late endosomes, which are closely related to the organelle in which antigen processing occurs, has, to date, required large numbers of cells and therefore has not been possible for dendritic cells.
  • (7) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (8) Specimen type, date of sampling, the sender's location and the reason for making the telephone enquiry were recorded.
  • (9) This is the first archaeological evidence of operative dentistry in ancient Israel, as well as the earliest date for this specific treatment in the world.
  • (10) However, shortly before this date, she says she was informed she would not receive the annual uprating.
  • (11) To date, a cognate action of E2 on the GnRH pulse generator has not been described.
  • (12) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
  • (13) Tritium-labeled ribonucleic acid precursors, including cytidine, uridine, and orotic acid, were injected into rats with dated pregnancies (14 to 21 days) and virgin rats.
  • (14) This result is equivalent to the best adjuvant chemotherapy results reported to date.
  • (15) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
  • (16) Angela Barnes As I understand it, dating websites are supposed to provide a confidential forum for the exchange of personal information between people who do not yet know each other but might like to.
  • (17) "I have to say that it is my expectation that they probably can be, because the data that we have to date is unlikely to show an adverse impact."
  • (18) To date television has not been used very much in teaching diagnostic radiology.
  • (19) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
  • (20) His dedication and professionalism is world class and he deserves all the recognition he has received to date.