Restaurant vs Dining - What's the difference?
restaurant | dining |
An eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.
* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
Eating dinner as a social function.
* 1869 , The XIX Century (volume 1, page 6)
Entertaining someone to dinner.
As nouns the difference between restaurant and dining
is that restaurant is an eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables while dining is eating dinner as a social function.As a verb dining is
present participle of lang=en.restaurant
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(en noun)George Goodchild
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* See alsoSee also
* bar * cook, chef * drive-in * fast food * grill * menu, * slow food * waiter (m), waitress (f), waitron 1000 English basic words ----dining
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- 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