Cafeteria vs Canter - What's the difference?
cafeteria | canter |
A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat
A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above) or brought in from elsewhere
A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four legged animals.
A ride on a horse at such speed.
One who cants or whines; a beggar.
One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
* Macaulay
As nouns the difference between cafeteria and canter
is that cafeteria is a restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat while canter is a gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four legged animals.As a verb canter is
to move at such pace.cafeteria
English
Noun
(wikipedia cafeteria) (en noun)Synonyms
* lunchroom * (dining area in an institution) canteencanter
English
(wikipedia canter)Etymology 1
Short for Canterbury pace , from the supposed easy pace of medieval pilgrims to Canterbury.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* in a canter, at a canterEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- The day when he was a canter and a rebel.