Dining vs Diner - 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.
One who dines, an eater.
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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 dining and diner
is that dining is eating dinner as a social function while diner is one who dines, an eater.As a verb dining
is present participle of lang=en.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
(head)Anagrams
* *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.