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DINE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give dinner to; host for dinner

Example:

I'm wining and dining my friends

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "dine" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

diner (a restaurant that resembles a dining car)

diner (a passenger car where food is served in transit)

dinner (the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday)

dinner (a party of people assembled to have dinner together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Have supper; eat dinner

Example:

We often dine with friends in this restaurant

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "dine" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue dine

Also:

dine in (eat at home)

dine out (eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home)

Derivation:

diner (a restaurant that resembles a dining car)

diner (a passenger car where food is served in transit)

diner (a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant))

dining (the act of eating dinner)

dinner (the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday)

dinner (a party of people assembled to have dinner together)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I had the pleasure of hearing it at Mr. Palmer's, where I have been dining.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The queen became so fond of my company, that she could not dine without me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In the dining saloon, at luncheon, he found himself in the place of honor, at the captain's right; and he was not long in discovering that he was the great man on board.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The fifth night he had in Guest to dine with him; and the sixth he betook himself to Dr. Lanyon’s.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

No, she said, he had come home in the afternoon but had gone up to the hall to dine and pass the evening with the squire.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Well, serve it hot,” said my uncle, coldly, “and see that the sauces are a little better than when last I dined at Carlton House.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At last, shortly after nine o’clock, there arrived a messenger with a note: Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of them in my room, Charles Gorot, had some arrears of work to make up, so I left him there and went out to dine.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By filming a great tit having a terrible dining experience with conspicuous prey, then showing it on a television to other tits before tracking their meal selection, researchers found that birds acquired a better idea of which prey to avoid: those that stand out.

(Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours, University of Cambridge)

Stukel and his team found that some groups of particle-feeding organisms may influence carbon transport as much as more abundant suspension-feeders like krill, which dine on floating organic matter closer to the ocean's surface.

(Research provides new view of the critical role of plankton in marine carbon storage, National Science Foundation)