单词 | diner |
释义 | dinern. 1. A person who is eating; (now typically) a customer in a restaurant.Recorded earliest in diner-out n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating meals > [noun] > eating main meal > diner diner1808 1808 ‘P. Plymley’ Two More Lett. on Catholics vii. 21 He is..a diner out of the highest lustre. 1814 L. Hunt Feast of Poets 8 The diners and barmaids all crowded to know him. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. ii. 16 After the regular diners had retired. 1881 Harper's Mag. July 218 Dinners are far fewer than formerly, and the diners are chosen rather more exclusively. 1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 14 Add a teaspoon of ‘Marmite Vegetable Extract’ to cold water in the quantity required—for four diners, say 4 large cups of water to a teaspoonful of marmite. 2016 Crave (Hong Kong) May 46/1 Fine-dining restaurants set the table with special saucier spoons..to allow diners to scoop up every last drop of jus. 2. a. Originally U.S. A railway carriage equipped as a restaurant for serving meals during the journey; = dining car n.Dining car is the usual term, esp. after the early 20th cent. ΚΠ 1889 Weekly Register-Call (Central City, Colorado) 22 Nov. The sleepers and the diner will run through from Chicago via the Chicago & North-Western Railway. 1890 Commercial Gaz. (Cincinnati) 29 June One coach, the chaircar, sleeper and diner..overturned. 1952 Daily Mail 6 Sept. 5/2 Brocklesby accounted for 23 teas served, whereas railway detectives watching passengers in the diner counted 29 2s. teas served. 2019 Daily Rev. (Moran City, Louisiana) 17 May 4/1 The new configuration would allow Amtrak to replace little-used sleeping cars and diners with ones better suited for shorter trips. b. North American. A roadside restaurant with a long counter and booths for seating customers, typically serving informal inexpensive meals and opening until late at night (or remaining open around the clock).Diners were originally built to resemble a railway dining car and are now often designed with distinctive 1950s architectural and decorative features. They typically serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner at all times of the day. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant eating-housec1440 feast house?c1475 victualling-house1541 cookshop1542 cookhouse1548 feasting house1563 treating-house1680 suttling-house1691 shop1695 chop shop1733 restaurateur1782 slap-bang shop1785 restorator1797 dinner house1803 restaurant1806 snack-house1820 grubbery1823 refreshment house1825 restauration1832 trattoria1832 slap-bang1836 ristorante1874 tavern-restaurant1880 foodery1892 eatery1901 taverna1914 chop-house1915 nosh1917 diner1924 noshery1952 ryotei1953 lokanta1954 Chinesery1956 relais routier1960 hotel1968 tratt1969 robata1975 fast foodery1979 Chinky1981 rodizio1981 taqueria1982 resto1988 paladar1994 1924 San Francisco Examiner 20 Sept. 9/1 Hoyt's Diner, a replica of a railway dining car, is one of the really original and ‘different’ restaurants in a city that is celebrated for both its cuisine and the cosmopolitan aspects of its many eating houses. 1929 Boston Evening Globe 15 Jan. 1/1 The attack on Gallagher occurred near a roadside diner, where the two gunmen had been eating. 1935 Amer. Mercury July 311/2 The diner was back from the sidewalk, under a couple of big trees. 1973 N. Freedman Joshua 115 He was, however, a stranger in the world of all-night diners and pizzaburger joints. 2019 C. Ketcham This Land ii. 17 Main Street alternates between shuttered storefronts and diners serving cattlemen and tourists. 3. A dining room in a house; a dining area within a larger room in a house, apartment, etc. Cf. dinette n. 1a.Frequently as the second element in compounds denoting a room with multiple functions, esp. in kitchen-diner n., lounge-diner n. ΚΠ 1907 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily Evening News 9 Aug. 9/5 Parlor, reception hall, diner, kitchen, three bed rooms with closets. 1992 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 2 Aug. 71 The penthouse features a hand-painted hall, a master bedroom in burgundy and old rose, Swedish kitchen, with intense blue fittings, split-level diner, roof terrace, and a leather-upholstered living room. 2018 L. Borstinski Case (e-book ed.) xiii This was not the finest apartment I'd stepped inside. There was a living room, diner, kitchen area and two doors. Compounds C1. a. North American. General use as a modifier (in sense 2), as in diner food, diner menu, diner waitress, etc. ΚΠ 1903 Moline (Illinois) Daily Disp. 9 Sept. 2/4 A diner menu in use on the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited [sc. a passenger train]. 1948 Midland Jrnl. (Rising Sun, Maryland) 29 Jan. Two..diner waitresses were sentenced to 30 days each in the Harford County jail..on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. 1977 N.Y. Mag. 16 May 40/2 Archetypal diner fare—breakfast anytime, burgers, steaks, chops. 1999 M. Regan Immortality News xiii. 52 The formica tabletop in the diner booth. 2011 J. Stern & M. Stern Roadfood (rev. ed.) 500 Fans of diner food will think they've entered heaven the moment they walk into this place and sniff bacon sizzling and burgers grilling. b. North American. As a modifier, designating slang used by or associated with short-order cooks and staff in diners, especially as a way to refer to various dishes, as in diner lingo, diner language, diner slang, etc. Cf. Adam and Eve n. 5. ΚΠ 1952 B. Gustafson Tillie the Toiler (cartoon strip) in Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 4 May (Comic section) i Let's see if I remember diner lingo: meat loaf is er..mystery loaf. 1970 Sunday Rec. (Middletown, N.Y.) 15 Feb. 33 Picturesque diner language disappears. Something you seldom hear any more is the picturesque language formerly used by waitresses to relay their customer's wishes to the short order cook. 1987 Grit (Williamsport, Pa.) 24 May 15/1 Occasionally..I'll catch a grainy old movie and hear a waitress shout for an order of ‘Adam and Eve on a raft’: diner talk for two poached eggs on toast, or ‘Bossy in a bowl’ meaning beef stew. 1994 A. Theroux Primary Colors 262 Diner slang, shouted colorfully from counterman to cook: ketchup is ‘red lead’, tomato soup ‘red noise’, and corned beef ‘red horse’. 2007 A. F. Smith Oxf. Compan. Amer. Food & Drink 187/1 The Denver, known as a ‘cowboy’ in diner lingo,..may actually be America's oldest breakfast sandwich. C2. Diners' Club n. originally U.S. a proprietary name for an international organization providing personal charge cards for its members; also attributive.ⓘ ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > other specific associations or organizations Tityre-tu1623 Peep o' Day Boys1780 law society1821 kongsi1839 B'nai B'rith1862 Molly Maguire1867 Kennel Club1874 Ethical Society1877 Kyrle Society1877 Molly1877 Sierra Club1891 subak1897 Workers' Educational Association1905 senior1906 W.E.A.1910 Lions Club1922 godless1927 F.P.A.a1940 Diners' Club1950 amnesty1961 Sealed Knot1971 Greenpeace1972 lions1972 Gaysoc1976 Group of Eight1977 Group of Seven1977 meeja1983 G71986 G81988 society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [adjective] > other specific associations or organizations Lions Club1922 Diners' Club1950 G71986 G81988 society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > credit documents > credit card > system or organization providing Diners' Club1950 American Express1958 Amex1958 visa1976 switch1977 card company1987 1950 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 14 Sept. 31/7 A New York finance corporation has launched a Diners' Club in that and other metropolitan cities. 1952 N.Y. Times 6 Jan. ii. 19/4 Anyone who can sign his name and pay his bills can charge his way through some of the better hotels, restaurants and night clubs of the country under a new credit card system known as the Diners Club. 1956 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 19 June tm135/2 Hamilton Credit Corporation, New York,…now The Diners' Club, Inc.…the Diners' Club... For extension of credit to customers who purchase at subscribing retail establishments and making collections from such customers through a central billing system. 1961 A. Buchwald How Much is that in Dollars? (1962) i. 10 There isn't any special evacuation plan for Diners' Club members, is there? 1969 ‘R. Stark’ Blackbird (1970) v. 34 Murray looked at his watch..and began waving his Diners Club card for the check. 1979 F. E. Perry Dict. Banking 58/1 The best known cards in the U.K. are Barclaycard, Access, Diner's Club and American Express... Diner's Club and American Express charge an entrance fee, but allow unlimited credit, to be paid for on receipt of the account. 2008 Financial Times 8 Apr. 25 Citigroup sells Diners Club for $165m. Derivatives ˈdiner-like adj. reminiscent or characteristic of a diner (sense 2b). ΚΠ 1955 Holland (Michigan) Evening Sentinel 14 Nov. 6/4 The rather ugly, green, diner-like shack. 2000 D. M. Smith Invitation xvii. 96 The building..has an old fashioned diner-like atmosphere that most people find soothing, nostalgic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1808 |
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