Dining vs Dine - What's the difference?
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Eating dinner as a social function.
* 1869 , The XIX Century (volume 1, page 6)
Entertaining someone to dinner.
to eat; to eat dinner or supper
(obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
(obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
Dine is a related term of dining.
As verbs the difference between dining and dine
is that dining is present participle of lang=en while dine is to eat; to eat dinner or supper.As a noun dining
is eating dinner as a social function.dining
English
Noun
- For my own part I preferred to remain with the ship, and I am now glad that I did so, for the welcome we received at Havana; the cheering crowds upon the quay; the friends we met and made; the dinings in and dinings out
Verb
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Verb
(din)- A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. — Sir Walter Scott.
- What wol ye dine ? — Chaucer.