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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
diner
noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
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▪ She changed seats with Hugo so that she sat with her back to the other diners.
▪ He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer.
▪ Rodriguez hesitated, his eyes shifting from Ward to the silent faces of the other diners, all watching us.
▪ They ate early, before the restaurant got too full - and before too many other diners lit up cigarettes.
▪ He looked round at the other diners.
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▪ But now, along with high drama, diners at Checkers can enjoy a lighter menu.
▪ Etiquette requires more or less continuous competition among diners to keep one another's tea-cups topped up.
▪ For diners on any kind of restricted diet, this is an invaluable service.
▪ He was known in every bar and diner in town, and tolerated in most.
▪ It is now established as a healthy food, with popular appeal for the ever-growing numbers of health-conscious diners.
▪ Now the gluttonous diner has a wide array of eateries from which to choose.
▪ The forks of the diners flash from plate to mouth and back.
▪ The two link up later, however, at a roadside diner.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diner

Diner \Din"er\, n. One who dines.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
diner

"one who dines, 1815," agent noun from dine. Meaning "railway car for eating" is 1890, American English; of restaurants built to resemble dining cars (or in some cases actual converted dining cars) from 1935. The Diner's Club credit card system dates from 1952.

Wiktionary
diner

n. One who dines, an eater.

WordNet
diner
  1. n. a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant)

  2. a passenger car where food is served in transit [syn: dining car, dining compartment, buffet car]

  3. a restaurant that resembles a dining car

Wikipedia
Diner

A diner is a prefabricated fast food restaurant building characteristic of American life, especially in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and in other areas of the Northeastern United States, as well as in the Midwest, although examples can be found throughout the United States, Canada, and parts of Western Europe. Diners are characterized by offering a wide range of foods, mostly American, a distinct exterior structure, a casual atmosphere, a counter, and late operating hours. "Classic American Diners" are often characterized by an exterior layer of stainless steel—a feature unique to diner architecture. In some cases diners share culture with drive-ins, and car culture with hot rods and muscle cars.

Diner (disambiguation)

Diner is a type of North American restaurant.

Diner may refer to:

  • A diner, a person who dines or eats
  • Andorran diner, commemorative coin of Andorra
  • Diner, 1987 video game by INTV Corporation and sequel to BurgerTime
  • Diners Club, credit card company
  • Unscrupulous diner's dilemma, in game theory
  • Diner (film), 1982 film by writer and director Barry Levinson
  • Diner (pinball), 1990 arcade game
  • Helen Diner (1874–1948), Austrian writer
  • A dining car on a train, a restaurant
  • A small, usually inexpensive restaurant with a long counter and booths and housed in a building designed to resemble a train's dining car.
Diner (film)

Diner is a 1982 American comedy-drama written and directed by Barry Levinson. The film is Levinson's screen directing debut, and the first of Levinson's four "Baltimore Films" set in his hometown during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999).

Diner (pinball)

Diner is a pinball machine produced by Williams in 1990. The objective of the game is to serve all customers in a diner. The table was marketed with the slogan "Its fresh! Its fast! Its hot!".

Usage examples of "diner".

Late-night cafes inNew Yorkwere apparently so familiar with this procedure that waiters and other diners would smile indulgently at Benzedrine abusers when they picked up the smell of menthol across the room.

He and Margaret had closed the diner for a week each summer to take Addle on a family vacation.

Jack let himself into the diner with the key that Addle had given him weeks before, wondering how he could have been so stupid.

The banquet was laid in the largest hall of the main palace building, a hall which, one of the table servants boasted to me, would accommodate six thousand diners at a single seating.

I did not waste time in circling the great board--with a single leap I cleared table and diners and sprang upon the balcony beyond.

Once across Blanchard, Cutty headed into the diner and dropped into a booth like a rag doll suddenly stuffed with lead shot.

The diner seats himself, fixes a pipe to the spigot in his cheek, so that he may drink continously as he dines, so avoiding the drudgery of opening flasks, pouring out mugs or goblets, raising, tilting and setting down the mug or goblet, with the consequent danger of breakage or waste.

At that moment the door burst open and Corrie Swanson came barging into the diner, tossing back her purple hair, all the little chains and doohickeys pinned to her tank top astir.

Henk was opgestaan en toen Gerard binnentrad, gevoelden zij zich alle drie verlegen voor den knecht over het plotseling afgebroken diner, over de glazen, die in scherven lagen.

Emilie, gapende achter heur waaier, en vlijde zich gemakkelijker in haar fauteuil, een weinig onder den indruk van het genoten diner.

Een diner bij de Moulangers flitste haar door den geest, daarna een rijtoer in den avond, in de omstreken van het kasteel der Des Luynes, daarna eene consultatie met hare doktoren te Parijs.

Du Pont nor the neighbouring diners seemed surprised at the hoggish display.

En denk je soms, dat ik me door jou de les laat lezen aan een diner bij vreemden, denk je dat?

Sim was enjoying himself debating through the menu with two white-jacketed waiters in voices raised over the hubbub of diners noshing and talking.

When lunch rolled around, I volunteered to take Pacal to the nearest diner.