the date.

Date: A planned meeting between two individuals ( most evidently but not necessarily, male and female) on mutual consensual understanding to explore the possibility of a future mutual social relationship between the two individuals,  which when accepted may lead to a formal commitment of loyalty.

This may be followed by possibility of extension of the relationship in to a sexual relationship which may be just exploratory or oral or culminate in coitus. The sexual relationship part depending upon the mutual understanding can precede or follow after the public declaration of commitment (which in common language is also known as marriage); This usually results after a reasonable amount of time being spent between the two individuals after they agree to be in a mutual social commitment of loyalty to each other and are fully satisfied by the social, economical and psychological wellbeing of the other partner ( the wellbeing part may or may not include an analysis of physiological component, because a complete physiological knowhow would require tests such as those involving blood, urine and DNA and knowledge of hereditary records, which by some strange reasons is not socially popular and prevalent) 

 

 

(the conclusion of the meaning of "date" was arrived upon at a healthy discussion by a group of 6 common DCE students on a chilly winter's sunny afternoon.

Composition of the group: 3 male 3 female. 5 of them socially committed (2 boys and 3 girls)  to a social relationship  and one socially uncommitted,  to a relationship with a member strictly of the opposite sex. ( that does not translate in to the uncommitted guy being gay- which by some chance is me)

The rest of the part apart from the "date" definition has been written by observation, by the uncommitted guy - which again is me)