What's the difference between dating and engagement?

Dating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) 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.

Engagement


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
  • (n.) The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.
  • (n.) That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office.
  • (n.) An action; a fight; a battle.
  • (n.) The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
  • (2) "But we develop a picture of someone from their previous engagements with us.
  • (3) In this study we were engaged on the pharmacokinetics of fosfestrol (Honvan) after oral administration.
  • (4) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
  • (5) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
  • (6) A man wearing a badge that says "property team" quietly parries some of her points, but chooses not to engage with others.
  • (7) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
  • (8) The need here is to promote the development of genuinely participative models – citizens panels and juries, patient and community leaders, participatory budgeting, and harnessing the power of digital engagement.
  • (9) Engagement in reminiscing may be stable during old age or may follow a developmental course.
  • (10) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
  • (11) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
  • (12) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
  • (13) However, the mean serum EPO concentrations of male and female athletes engaged in a variety of sports were not different from those of sedentary control subjects of both sexes (26.5-35.3 U.ml-1).
  • (14) The findings may have a more general significance in relation to the site of engagement between processed antigen and MHC molecules in specialized antigen-presenting cells.
  • (15) These steps signify a willingness for engagement not seen before, but they have been overshadowed by the "nuclear crisis" triggered in October 2002 when Pyongyang admitted to having the "know-how", but not the technology, for a highly enriched uranium route to nuclear weapons.
  • (16) Through cues or precues, attention was directed to one location of a multistimulus visual display and, while attention was so engaged, the identity of a stimulus located at a different position in the display was changed.
  • (17) An Ofsted for universities Read more Too often a commitment to learning and teaching is presented in opposition to engagement with research and scholarship, but the two should be inextricably linked.
  • (18) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
  • (19) And an increasing number of critics say that no nuclear weapon would be a credible deterrent in any counter-terrorist operation British forces will be engaged in for the foreseeable future.
  • (20) The patient was engaged in the magistraliter preparations of medicaments in a pharmacy.