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单词 diner
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dinern.

Brit. /ˈdʌɪnə/, U.S. /ˈdaɪnər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dine v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < dine v. + -er suffix1.Compare French dineur person who is eating (1609). With sense 2a compare earlier dining car n. With sense 3 compare dinette n. 1a.
1. A person who is eating; (now typically) a customer in a restaurant.Recorded earliest in diner-out n.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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