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What is the difference between diner and deuce?

diner | deuce |

As nouns the difference between diner and deuce

is that diner is agent noun of dine; one who dines; one who eats a meal, especially dinner while deuce is (cards) a card with two spots, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards or deuce can be (epithet) the devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

diner

English

Noun

(wikipedia diner) (en noun)
  • One who dines, an eater.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= 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.
  • * (Calvin Trillin) (1935-)
    • 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.
  • A dining car in a railroad train.
  • * Richard Gutman
    • The diner is everybody's kitchen.
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (rail car) dining car * (sense) pub

    Hyponyms

    * (expert) deipnosophist

    Related terms

    * (act) See'' * (verb) See * Joe’s Diner

    deuce

    English

    (wikipedia deuce)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) , from (etyl) deus, from (etyl) duo.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cards) A card with two spots, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
  • (dice) A side of a die with two spots.
  • (dice) A cast of dice totalling two.
  • The number two.
  • (tennis) A tie, both players have the same number of points and one can win by scoring two additional points.
  • (baseball) A curveball
  • (custom cars) A '32 FordGeisert, Eric. "The California Spyder", in Street Rodder'', 8/99, p.34; Mayall, Joe. "Driving Impression: Reproduction Deuce Hiboy", in ''Rod Action , 2/78, p.26. in plural, 2-barrel (twin-choke) carburetors (in the term 3 deuces, an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
  • (restaurants) A table seating two diners.
  • (slang) Excrement.
    • Coordinate terms
    * (card with two spots)

    Etymology 2

    Compare , from (etyl) deus (compare (deity).)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger
    • Love is a bodily infirmity . . . which breaks out the deuce knows how or why (Thackeray)

    References

    * (etymology) * Notes:

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