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Duned vs Dined - What's the difference?

duned | dined |

As an adjective duned

is featuring or formed into dunes.

As a verb dined is

past tense of dine.

duned

English

Adjective

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  • (geology) Featuring or formed into dunes.
  • * 1912 , William Mumford Gregory, Geological report on Arenac County , Issue 11, page 76,
  • The banks are duned and are nearly 40 feet above the lake.
  • * 1971 , , The Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society , Volume 22, page 153,
  • These are related to positioning of the meter array on the form of the duned bed.
  • * 1975 , Joel S. Watkins, Michael L. Bottino, Marie Morisawa, Our Geological Environment , page 226,
  • Duned coasts appear where sand accumulates on a beach faster than the waves can move the material alongshore.

    dined

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dine)

  • dine

    English

    Verb

    (din)
  • to eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • (obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
  • A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. — Sir Walter Scott.
  • (obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
  • What wol ye dine ? — Chaucer.

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