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up-date

up-date is the archaic spelling of update.

Meaning of update

Noun

update (plural updates)

  1. An additional piece of information, an addition to existing information.
    • I just made an update to my blog about my trip to Rome.
    1. An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known.
      • He gave me an update on the situation in New York.
  2. A modification of something to a more recent, up-to-date version; (in software) a minor upgrade.
    • Our database receives an update every morning at 3 AM.
  3. An adjustment of parameters in a model, or the rule by which they are adjusted.
    • stochastic update
  4. A version of something which is newer than other versions.
    • You should try the update: it rocks.

See all 8 meanings of update

Forms of up-date

third-person singular presentup-dates
present participleup-dating
past participleup-dated
pastup-dated

Questions about up-date

What is up-date the archaic spelling of?
Up-date is the archaic spelling of update.

Words near up-date in the dictionary

  1. up-beat
  2. up-bow
  3. up-bows
  4. up-cycle
  5. up-cycles
  6. up-date
  7. up-dated
  8. up-dates
  9. up-dating
  10. up-do
  11. up-dos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: up-date (page history and authors); update (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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