Dinner vs Wrong - What's the difference?
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A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).
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The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.
An evening meal.
A meal given to an animal.
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A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.
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Incorrect or untrue.
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Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
Immoral, not good, bad.
Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
Not working; out of order.
Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
(obsolete) Twisted; wry.
(informal) In a way that isn't right; done incorrectly; wrongly.
Something that is immoral or not good.
An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
* (rfdate) John Dowland:
The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
* 1592', , ''Henry VI'', Part III, Act IV, Scene I, line 101. — I blame not her: she could say little less; She had the ' wrong .
The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
* 1607', , ''Timon of Athens'', Act IV, Scene III, line 28. — Thus much of this will make Black white, foul fair, ' wrong right, Base noble, old young, coward valiant.
To treat unjustly; to injure or harm.
* The dealer wronged us by selling us this lemon of a car.
* 1591', , ''Henry VI'', Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 109. — Thou dost then ' wrong me, as that slaughterer doth Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
* 1597', , ''Henry IV'', Part II, Act IV, Scene I, line 121. — ... And might by no suit gain our audience. When we are ' wrong'd and would unfold our griefs, We are denied access unto his person Even by those men that most have done us wrong.
To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.
* 1598', , ''Julius Caesar'', Act III, Scene II, line 121. — O masters! if I were dispos'd to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who (you all know) are honorable men. I will not do them wrong; I rather choose To '''wrong''' the dead, to '''wrong''' myself and you, Than I will ' wrong such honorable men.
As nouns the difference between dinner and wrong
is that dinner is a midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea) while wrong is something that is immoral or not good.As an adjective wrong is
incorrect or untrue.As an adverb wrong is
(informal) in a way that isn't right; done incorrectly; wrongly.As a verb wrong is
to treat unjustly; to injure or harm.dinner
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(wikipedia dinner)Noun
citation, passage=When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
Usage notes
* There are differences in usage according to the social class of the speaker. Working-class and lower-middle-class speakers in Britain, for example, are more likely to refer to the midday meal as "dinner" and the evening meal as "tea" rather than "supper". Some speakers use common collocations of dinner'' such as ''school dinner'', ''Sunday dinner'' and ''Christmas dinner'' to describe meals that they wouldn't otherwise call a ''dinner .Synonyms
* (an evening meal) supper * (meal given to an animal) chow * (midday meal) lunch, luncheon * (formal meal for many people eaten at a special occasion) banquet, luncheonDerived terms
* after-dinner speech * after-dinner * basket dinner * Christmas dinner * dinner dance * dinner fork * dinner guest * dinner jacket * dinner knife * dinner lady * dinner party * dinner plate * dinner ring * dinner roll * dinner service * dinner table * dinner time * dinnerware * done up like a dog's dinner * potluck dinner * school dinner * Sunday dinner * TV dinnerStatistics
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* 1000 English basic wordswrong
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Adjective
- Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong .
- Among this princely heap, if any here / By false intelligence or wrong surmise / Hold me a foe
- You're wrong : he's not Superman at all.
- It is wrong to lie.
- A bikini is the wrong thing to wear on a cold day.
- Something is wrong with my cellphone .
- Don't cry, honey. Tell me what's wrong .
- a wrong nose
Usage notes
* The single-word comparative and superlative forms wronger and wrongest are no longer in common use, except humorously; rather, the locutions “more wrong” and “most wrong” are preferred. * When wrong is used attributively, before a noun, the noun is usually treated as definite, using the article the; hence, for example, one says, “I dialed the wrong number”, “he gave the wrong answer”, and “she took the wrong approach”, even though there are many possible wrong numbers, answers, and approaches, of which only one was dialed, given, or taken.Synonyms
* injurious * unjust * faulty * detrimental * unfit * unsuitable *Derived terms
* wrength * wrongly * wrongfulAntonyms
* rightQuotations
* 2007 January 3, Ken Miller, “The Collapse of Intelligent Design: Will the next Monkey Trial be in Ohio?”, Case Western University, Strosacker Auditorium *: that statement is wrong. Now that's not an incidental statement, that is the heart and soul of the Intelligent Design argument, and in this case it turns out to be wrong. Now it's even wronger than that [laughter ] because it turns out that not only do these proteins make up the Type-III Secretory Apparatus but almost every protein in the bacerial flagellum is strongly homologous to proteins that have other functions elsewhere in the cell.Adverb
(en adverb)- I spelled several names wrong in my address book.
Noun
(wikipedia wrong) (en noun)- Injustice is a heinous wrong .
- Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak? Shall I call her good when she proves unkind?