Dim vs Diner - What's the difference?
dim | diner |
One who dines, an eater.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= * (Calvin Trillin) (1935-)
A dining car in a railroad train.
* Richard Gutman
A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades.
As nouns the difference between dim and diner
is that dim is dimness while diner is one who dines, an eater.As an adjective dim
is not bright or colorful.As an adverb dim
is dimly, indistinctly.As a verb dim
is to make something less bright.diner
English
Noun
(wikipedia diner) (en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
- When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
- The diner is everybody's kitchen.
