What's the difference between dine and dinner?

Dine


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
  • (v. t.) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
  • (v. t.) To dine upon; to have to eat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
  • (2) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
  • (3) How can the CHOGM leaders condemn the dictatorship of Musharraf but happily wine and dine with Museveni?
  • (4) By abusing his power, he was engrossed in irregularities and corruption, had improper relations with several women and was wined and dined at back parlours of deluxe restaurants.
  • (5) In Study 2, the effects of social vs. isolated dining were compared.
  • (6) The scene highlighted Dines's explosive charisma and the fact that, since the death of Andrea Dworkin, she has risen to that most difficult and interesting of public roles: the world's leading anti-pornography campaigner.
  • (7) For some of the pupils, that in itself was a novelty, including those from homes without a table to dine on, or in some cases a family to eat with.
  • (8) As a result of her research, Dines believes that pornography is driving men to commit particular acts of violence towards women.
  • (9) The US blamed him and his force last month for an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US in a Washington restaurant where he would be dining.
  • (10) When I got to spend a day with him in 1989 he often related themes to dining out.
  • (11) Some schools, worried about their lack of kitchen and dining facilities, have asked whether they can offer pupils a sandwich and a yoghurt instead of a hot meal.
  • (12) Wealthy locals dine in the 32nd-floor restaurant at Grozny City, a five-star hotel, the football team plays at a newly renovated stadium.
  • (13) Dallas Goldtooth, an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network and member of the Mdewakanton Dakota and Dine tribes, said he had expected Trump to support the pipeline, but did not imagine it would happen within days of the administration.
  • (14) Obama and his family vacation every August on Martha’s Vineyard, and he has spent most of this year’s trip on the golf course, at the beach and dining at the island’s upscale restaurants.
  • (15) First, it would be much less popular and take-up would be lower, meaning that you would get neither the advantages of scale nor the benefits of bringing everyone together in a busy, vibrant dining area.
  • (16) Adjoining his office, in the green room where Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni, Hollande settled into a lush dining chair, more elaborate than the rest around the meeting table.
  • (17) Police officers resigned and politicians were embarrassed as the scandal erupted, but Scotland Yard – with dazzling cynicism – has reacted by trying to silence the kind of police whistleblowers who helped to expose the failures of their leaders; and ambitious politicians continue to dine with Rupert Murdoch.
  • (18) Thankfully, mazot guests can also use the lounge and dining room in the Chalet Les Mazots, a lovely wood-panelled home full of antique chairs, chests and cabinets, built by a family of silk manufacturers from Leon who chose the location for their farm for its south-facing views of Mont Blanc.
  • (19) "I've ended up with everything I could want – a pool table, a table football table, dining table and chairs, sofas, carpets.
  • (20) On the ground beneath their feet lived salamanders, amphibians and plenty of mammals, including the badger-sized beast, repenomamus, which dined on dead dinosaurs.

Dinner


Definition:

  • (n.) The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.
  • (n.) An entertainment; a feast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
  • (2) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
  • (3) Dinner is the usual “international” menu that few will bother with given the wealth of choice nearby.
  • (4) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (5) The Miliband dinner will be a more low key affair in London.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May dismisses reports of frosty dinner with EU chief as ‘Brussels gossip’ The EU delegation are said to have wondered whether Davis might still be in his post following the general election.
  • (7) He reportedly almost never went out, spending America's 4th of July holiday at home, and cooking steak dinners for one.
  • (8) No association was detected between the overall frequency of fish for dinner and breast cancer risk (chi 2 trend = 1.39, p = 0.24), but there was an inverse relation with the frequency of main meals containing fish in poached form.
  • (9) I learned about this more extreme form of PMS a couple of weeks ago, at a conference dinner, where I ended up sitting next to Peter Greenhouse, consultant in sexual health in Bristol.
  • (10) Schools should adopt whole-school approaches to building emotional resilience – everyone from the dinner ladies to the headteacher needs to understand how to help young people to cope with what the modern world throws at them.
  • (11) Cameron is hoping Thursday’s EU talks over dinner will pave the way for a deal by February, allowing him to have a referendum next year.
  • (12) When you are informed that 200 children are missing, you don’t go to dinner until you have got to the bottom of it.
  • (13) At a dinner party, say, if ever you hear a person speak of a school for Islamic children, or Catholic children (you can read such phrases daily in newspapers), pounce: "How dare you?
  • (14) They have insisted that they were invited to the event, Obama's first state dinner.
  • (15) The traditionally larger meals of the day (lunch and dinner) represented higher proportions of daily intake in fat and obese children; the energy value of breakfast and afternoon snack was inversely related to corpulence.
  • (16) Hollande’s dinner and overnight stay at Chequers was also due to cover a strategy for Syria in light of growing signs that the president, Bashar al-Assad, is being shored up by additional military help from Russia and Iran.
  • (17) I do not always require something with a pulse to have died for my dinner.
  • (18) There is a half-drunk glass of white wine abandoned on the coffee table at his Queensferry home - the Browns had friends around for dinner the previous night - and a stack of children's books and board games piled lopsidedly under a Christmas tree now shedding needles with abandon.
  • (19) During a break in shooting Emin was served a Sunday dinner.
  • (20) In fact, in keeping with its usual practice, the White House hasn't released any details about the menu, the decor, where dinner will be served or what Michelle Obama will wear and doesn't plan to until a few hours before Wednesday's event begins.