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diner vs dinner

diner

Definitions

noun

  1. a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant)
  2. a passenger car where food is served in transit
  3. a restaurant that resembles a dining car

Examples

A little diner food helped, but after the incident with the couple on the street all I wanted was to go home, take a shower, slather lotion on my blistered tootsies, and lick my wounds.

Police sources say part of the racket was connected to so-called ‘car parking jockeys’ - triads who take payments to park restaurant diners' cars - who wanted ‘compensation’ for the use of parking spaces.

A warm, inviting womb of a restaurant, it's a place that improbably manages to rise above the staggering kitschness of waiters exchanging 'buon appetito' with diners who don't speak a word of the language either.

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dinner

Definitions

noun

  1. the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday
  2. a party of people assembled to have dinner together

Examples

The experience was a little like being seated next to a cheerful, open-faced fellow on a long airplane flight who begins talking to you - and then never, ever, ever stops, not even when he has his Salisbury steak dinner in his mouth.

A fellow treats himself and his true love to dinner, a bottle and a night at the bug house at the end of another week of hard work and dutiful child-rearing, comes home happy and at peace, and what does he find?

The dinner was being hosted by a fledgling company he had set up just months before.

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