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diner

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for diner.

Editorial note

So when your local diner's staff sing your kid happy birthday they are breaking the law?...

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

One who dines.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of diner gathered in one view.

noun

One who dines.

noun

A dining car in a railroad train.

noun

A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for diner.

Example sentences

1

So when your local diner's staff sing your kid happy birthday they are breaking the law?...

2

It's not so much that they could kill a diner as that they could get sued.

3

Blocking web ads is like skipping out on paying the bill at a diner.

4

Keep social routine - meet with other people for diner, sports, chat, movie.

5

I trust Yelp reviews more than I trust some shitty diner's owner complaining about the bad reviews.

6

That's when I decided I'd just stick to fasting until 5 pm when I eat diner.

7

Yeah, when I was a kid I remember them being pretty common in restaurant/diner type places.

8

I ended up liking it a lot...there's something soothing/cathartic about running a frantic diner even after coming home from real-life work.

9

You're sitting in a diner and an old acquaintance walks in.

10

DPS and the local PD used to race from the center of our town to the 24hr diner on interstate in our town at 3 am.

11

Perhaps walk into a diner and have a big meal.

12

And restaurants are all about flavor and presentation and unique ingredients -- they're triggering your dopamine, which they hope will entice the diner to spend more money.

Quote examples

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Even putting a big sign on the front of your building "Joe's Diner" is a form of advertising.

2

In short, I find it really odd that you take a "that's the way the world is" with the diner, but not with website advertising.

3

The "You make what you measure." quote is attributable to Joe Kraus, from a talk at a y combinator diner in 2008.

4

Even if you're making a diner on the side of the highway, you have to put up a sign "Eat at Joes" so people know that you exist and will pull over to try you out.

Proper noun examples

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For example, in the Kansas City, Missouri region you'll see this both in the sit-down tex-mex chain-restaurant El Maguey as well as smaller sit-down cafes (the one that's coming to mind is City Diner, which is by the River Market).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use diner in a sentence?

So when your local diner's staff sing your kid happy birthday they are breaking the law?...

What does diner mean?

One who dines.

What part of speech is diner?

diner is commonly used as noun.