menun.
/ˈmɛnjuː/, U.S. /ˈmɛnju/ 1. The common people. Obsolete. rare.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun]
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Pimlico parliament?1774
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many-headed1836
hoi polloi1837
the masses1837
citizenhood1843
John Q.1922
wimble-wamble1937
1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son (1673) 2 The Sons of the Menu lying so long under this lazie course.
1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son (1673) 190 Which..may better become the Gentry, than the Sons of the Menu.
II. Senses relating to a list or schedule.
2.
a. A list of the dishes to be served at a meal, or which are available in a restaurant, etc.; a card on which such a list is written or printed, a bill of fare. Also: the food available or to be served at a meal or in a restaurant.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > menu > [noun]
billet1577
fillet1587
bill of farea1640
carte1818
menu1830
beef chit1911
me-and-you1932
1830 Lady Morgan France 1829–30 II. 267 All beyond the cookery of Louis the Fifteenth..seemed excluded from the menu of the Faubourg.
1837 Countess of Blessington in Heath's Bk. Beauty 198 Did you not examine the menu?
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxiii. 218 It was a grand sight to behold him in his dressing-gown composing a menu.
1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius (1892) 38 He was thinking out a menu for dinner.
1912 Jrnl. Home Econ. 4 245 Exactly the same menu was served in a large college dining room and at the cafeteria.
1957 O. Nash You can't get there from Here 86 Every time the menu lists bleu cheese I want to order fromage blue.
1986 D. Johnson Stars at Noon (1987) 53 The waiter brought me a menu.
1998 P. Chapman 1999 Good Curry Guide 543 Menu was wide and varied. Papadoms and chutneys excellent. Raita exceptional.
b. In extended use.
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1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Nov. 3/1 To gain this they must qualify in Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Logic,..[etc.]—a pretty good menu.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 155 Maul her a bit. Then the next thing on the menu.
1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood ii. iii. 206 All the intelligent ones feel baffled at the menu of these degree courses.
1974 Some Techn. Terms & Slang (Granada Television) Menu, a list of items read out at the start of a magazine programme.
1989 Independent 6 Mar. 1/5 The Soviet sociologists will be able to choose from a weekly menu of topics.
3.
a. Computing. A list of available commands or facilities, esp. one displayed on screen.
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society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > operating environment > parts of
menu1967
desktop1982
1967 Proc. IEEE 55 1551/2 Software function buttons, displayed on the CRT as a ‘menu’ of commands available to the user.
1977 Sci. Amer. Aug. 50/1 A simple menu helps you enter your data parameters on the keyboard, after which a single keystroke plots the data instantly.
1990 Managem. Computing Nov. 98/1 It's unusual in that all its functions are selected from a single menu screen, rather than from an endless series of menus and sub-menus.
1996 Internet World Apr. 48/3 The tags are inserted when you select options from the toolbars or drop-down menus.
b. A list of numbers or functions stored in the memory of a telephone; a recorded list of options played automatically to a telephone user when a particular number is entered.
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1985 Telephone Engineer & Managem. 89 76 An information search with a query directed system could end up being no more cost-efficient than a menu driven system accessed over phone lines.
1991 Online Access Fall 27/1 A bulletin board system..is a computer running a special program that answers phone calls and presents a menu of functions to the caller.
1994 C. Pursell White Heat viii. 198 Mobile phones..have a memory for a menu of numbers and dial them at the press of a button.
1998 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 14 June 15/4 The next alarming step could be a menu system which asks callers to ‘press 1 if you are being attacked’ or ‘2 if you are being stalked’.
Compounds
menu bar n. Computing a horizontal bar, typically located at the top of a screen or window below the title bar, from which commands may be selected from drop-down menus.
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1983 Pop. Sci. June 127 To use Lisa, you slide the arrow up until it touches the words FILE/PRINT on the menu bar across the top of the screen.
1993 S. A. Maguire Writing Solid Code 122 A root window represents the display, and this window has subwindows: a menu bar, pull-down menus, application document windows, dialogs, and so on.
2000 U.S. News & World Rep. 24 Jan. 37/3 A wireless keyboard will allow the user to treat the television screen a lot like a computer screen, clicking on a menu bar and chatting with AOL's instant-messaging software.
menu card n. the card on which a menu is written or printed.
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1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes ii. 124 A menu card, with gilded edge and lettering.
1991 J. Richardson Life of Picasso I. ix. 141 They entrusted him with the design of menu cards and flyers for the tavern.
menu-driven adj. Computing (of a computer or program) operated by making selections from menus (cf. command-driven adj. at command n. Additions).
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society > computing and information technology > [adjective] > relating to user interface
touch-sensitive1969
menu-driven1979
command-driven1983
mouse-controlled1983
mouse-driven1983
greyed-out1985
1979 Proc. 12th Hawaii Internat. Conf. System Sci. 1 158 A particular menu driven user interface is presented as an example of a successful interface.
1984 Austral. Micro Computerworld Feb. 13/2 The PCjr is menu-driven, using icons to identify the programs available.
1992 UNIX Today! 17 Feb. 46/2 Users..interact with the system through a menu-driven interface.
menu French n. basic French of the kind used on restaurant menus; a knowledge of French to this level.
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1964 Eng. Stud. 45 22 In Britain, in any case, menu French is generally incomprehensible to a native Frenchman.
1981 L. Lochhead Grimm Sisters 47 They are absolutely Au fait with menu-French.
1987 New Idea (Melbourne) 28 Mar. 127/1 I can speak very good ‘menu’ French, but I can't say the long, complicated things.
menu pricing n. (esp. in the motor vehicle business) a system whereby repairs and services are offered at a fixed price, rather than the cost being subject to estimate.
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1985 Which? Feb. 60/3 Specialists seem much more likely to have a fixed rate for a job. We'd like to see the garage trade generally adopt a ‘tariff’ or ‘menu-pricing’ approach for servicing and repair jobs.
1986 Travel Weekly 9 Jan. 1 Four pricing alternatives—commission sharing, fee per ticket transaction, cost plus a fee for the agency and menu pricing, where each service has pre-determined dollar value.
1995 News Tribune 2 Jan. d3 Most repair shops charge customers by using an industrywide parts and labor guide; or by menu pricing which is usually advertised, like ‘lube oil, filter—$24.95’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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