(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.
Dint
Definition:
(n.) A blow; a stroke.
(n.) The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
(n.) Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of.
(v. t.) To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent.
Example Sentences:
(1) At worst, they say, it would pave the way for the privatisation of the school system - in Sweden they are allowed to make a profit - and at best the system would simply be exploited by pushy middle-class parents who would exclude disadvantaged children by dint of their address.
(2) report cloning of a Drosophila homolog (Dint-1) of the mouse int-1 gene and show that this gene is identical to wingless+.
(3) The Birmingham goalkeeper, Ben Foster, was the man of the match, by dint of his second-half heroics.
(4) Mr Grieve is a meticulous and intelligent lawyer, so it is particularly striking that – by dint of his seat in the government – he felt obliged to engage in this ridiculous dance to keep private the prince’s meddling in public affairs.
(5) (3) Both Dint and Dm + w agree reasonably well with Dadd.
(6) The show unashamedly explored the by-now trademarked Beckham look of body-conscious dresses that stop short of being blatantly sexy by dint of their elbow-length sleeves and high necklines.
(7) On one hand, Pulgasari is a cautionary tale about what happens when the people leave their fate in the hands of the monster, a capitalist by dint of his insatiable consumption of iron.
(8) For venous complexes of the popliteal space which have to be operated, an extremely precise anatomical schema has to be drawn up, by dint of a very thorough clinical examination, whose results will be further refined using echography and phlebography; in most cases, it will be possible to tackle them postero-internally, the patient in the dorsal decubitus position, or even in lateral decubitus.
(9) If nothing else, Blair brought the fractious party together, by dint of ditching clause IV and, more importantly, winning.
(10) But by dint of iron discipline and a little luck, we made it to the ground on time and found the Tartan Army in good heart; as ever, it was full of booze, hope and humour.
(11) The influence of the amplitude A and of the internal rotational diffusion constant Dint characterizing the dynamics of the system has been checked for in-phase and for uncorrelated motions.
(12) "But they don't see me as part of the problem," she protests, "because we pay ordinary income tax, unlike a lot of people who are truly well off, not to name names; and we've done it through dint of hard work," she says, letting off another burst of laughter.
(13) Is this sort of ethical collectivism – whereby those living today share guilt for the past crimes of those they belong to by dint of their nation, race and so on – just, or productive?
(14) So Gazans are an occupied people and have the right to resist, including by armed force (though not to target civilians), while Israel is an occupying power that has an obligation to withdraw – not a right to defend territories it controls or is colonising by dint of military power.
(15) I have called this "the third Scotland" by dint of it differentiating from the two establishment visions of Scotland – the new SNP one and the old declining Labour version.
(16) That said, she concedes that, just as in her film, the absent parent is often seen as the more glamorous parent, simply by dint of the fact that he has not had to do all the hard parts of parenting; we only have to look at divorced couples to know this much.
(17) If the guys with bumper stickers ever poach a wolf, it’s not making much of a dint in their recovery.
(18) But the real spiritual argument happens in how her weirdly cut and twisting narratives unfold: a death foretold long before a person's story has even started, as in The Driver's Seat (1970) or The Hothouse by the East River (1973); the interest in how superstition and other forms of false consciousness precipitate evil actions, as in The Bachelors (1960) or The Girls of Slender Means (1963); the way an innocuous-looking catchphrase, like Miss Jean Brodie's famous "crème de la crème", attains a mysteriously sacramental force by dint of a rhythmic repetition, half-gossipy, half-incantatory in intent.
(19) Bale, though, commandeered the headlines by dint of his late goal and it felt as though he was determined to repay Rafael Benítez for the decision to play him in a central attacking role.
(20) Facebook itself has been transformed as a political campaign tool since 2008, simply by dint of its exponential growth.