| 单词 | diner |
| 释义 | diner (once / 2971 pages) n A diner is a person who's eating a meal, and it's also a word for a casual restaurant. If you pass by a diner in a diner, check out what's on his plate. It could be anything from eggs over easy to salisbury steak. If you dine in a cafe you're a diner, and if you eat in the dining car on a train, you can call it a diner too. Your favorite neighborhood diner — a casual restaurant that keeps late hours and serves a variety of food — is actually named after these railroad restaurants. The original diners, from the 1930s, were shaped like train cars, often clad in stainless steel, and had long, narrow space inside with stools along a counter. WORD FAMILYdiner: diners+/dine: dined, diner, dines, dining, dinner, undine/dining: dinings/dinner: dinners/undine: undines USAGE EXAMPLESA mile from that canyon, I sat in a diner and talked with Mendoza. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) But another reader, Daniel Orkwis, more or less counseled diners not to be cavalier about sending back wine once it’s been sampled and approved. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) For diners, the strength in numbers means that when one restaurant is full, it’s not hard to amble to a nearby spot. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) 1n a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant) Hypo|Hyper carver, cutter someone who carves the meat dining companion, tablematesomeone you dine with eater, feeder someone who consumes food for nourishment 2n a passenger car where food is served in transit Syn|Hyper buffet car, dining car, dining compartment carriage, coach, passenger car a railcar where passengers ride 3n a restaurant that resembles a dining car Hyper eatery, eating house, eating place, restaurant a building where people go to eat |
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