Diner vs Eater - What's the difference?
diner | eater |
One who dines, an eater.
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, 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.
Agent noun of eat; one who eats.
An eating apple.
* 2004 , Laura Mason, Food Culture in Great Britain (page 94)
One who performs fellatio or cunnilingus.
* 2001 , Cool Sexy Guy, Story: Cheerleading Camp Group: alt.sex
* 1987 , Baird Jones, Sexual humor - Page 309
* 1997 , James White, The Best Sex of Your Life - Page 166
As nouns the difference between diner and eater
is that diner is one who dines, an eater while eater is agent noun of eat; one who eats.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.
Synonyms
* (rail car) dining car * (sense) pubHyponyms
* (expert) deipnosophisteater
English
Noun
(en noun)- For the British market, apples are classed as early, mid-season, or late, and subdivided into eaters or cookers.
- The girls were having lots of fun rolling around on the bed, though Kacie was a much better fingerer and occasional eater.
- I'm a slow but fastidious eater
- Ice cream tastes good to the eater, and has the added advantage of providing a little chill of excitement
