{"id":3685,"date":"2012-11-02T20:08:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2012-11-02T20:09:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:09:16","slug":"date-vs-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/date-vs-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Date vs. Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two words of the headline are often and sustainably mixed up by ESL (English as a second language)\u00a0 learners. <em>Date<\/em> refers to an <em>appointment<\/em>, businesswise, but more often romantic; <em>the date<\/em> of a day, month, year etc., or can mean a <em>fruit<\/em>, similar to a <em>fig<\/em>. <em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Data<\/em> is simply the <em>information<\/em> that you feed or get from e.g. a computer, or you use for writing a report or in an argument.<\/p>\n<p><strong>date:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>1<\/div>\n<div><strong>:<\/strong> the oblong edible fruit of a palm (<em>Phoenix dactylifera<\/em>)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>2<\/div>\n<div><strong>:<\/strong> the tall palm with pinnate leaves that yields the date<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>1<\/div>\n<div><em>a<\/em> <strong>:<\/strong> the time at which an event occurs &lt;the <em>date<\/em> of his birth&gt;  <em>b<\/em> <strong>:<\/strong> a statement of the time of execution or making &lt;the <em>date<\/em> on the letter&gt;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>2<\/div>\n<div><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/duration\">duration<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>3<\/div>\n<div><strong>:<\/strong> the period of time to which something belongs<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>4<\/div>\n<div><em>a<\/em> <strong>:<\/strong> an appointment to meet at a specified time; <em>especially<\/em> <strong>:<\/strong> a social engagement between two persons that often has a romantic character  <em>b<\/em> <strong>:<\/strong> a person with whom one has a usually romantic date<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>5<\/div>\n<div><strong>:<\/strong> an engagement for a professional performance (as of a dance band)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>data<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>1<\/div>\n<div><strong>:<\/strong> factual information (as measurements or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation &lt;the <em>data<\/em> is plentiful and easily available  \u2014 H. A. Gleason, Jr.&gt; &lt;comprehensive <em>data<\/em> on economic growth have been published  \u2014 N. H. Jacoby&gt;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/\"> merriam webster<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two words of the headline are often and sustainably mixed up by ESL (English as a second language)\u00a0 learners. Date refers to an appointment, businesswise, but more often romantic; the date of a day, month, year etc., or can mean a fruit, similar to a fig. Data is simply the information that you feed [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3687,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}