dateline
pronunciation
How to pronounce dateline in British English:
UK ['deɪtlaɪn]
How to pronounce dateline in American English:
US ['deɪtˌlaɪn]
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- Noun:
- an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian
- a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch
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- Verb:
- mark with a date and place
Word Origin
- dateline (n.)
- 1880, imaginary line down the Pacific Ocean on which the calendar day begins and ends, from date (n.1) + line (n.). Meaning "line of text that tells the date and place of origin of a newspaper, article, telegram, etc." is from 1888.
Example
- 1. Online usa news dateline has new revelations in brooke .
- 2. Provide with a dateline ; mark with a date .
- 3. What 's my problem ? Do you watch dateline ?
- 4. Assisted customers with dateline payments or installments before placing accounts to enforce collection .
- 5. In december , samoa in the south pacific jumped the dateline just so it could be closer to asian time zones .