What's the difference between dine and supper?

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.

Supper


Definition:

  • (n.) A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal.
  • (v. i.) To take supper; to sup.
  • (v. t.) To supply with supper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
  • (2) You might even arrive home with something tolerable for supper.
  • (3) It is suggested that the identification of the host of Supperer's E. ursini and E. tasmaniae as V. ursinus was in error and that the allopatric L. latifrons is the natural host.
  • (4) The existence of a circadian rhythm for GFR, uTP, uA, and uRBP was corroborated by spontaneous changes over baseline levels, which also were prominent after lunch CL as compared to those following supper CL.
  • (5) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
  • (6) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
  • (7) "No one ever bothered him at the suppers," former pastor Bob Moyer of Hartland told the paper.
  • (8) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
  • (9) Meantime, in Tamworth, Australia, Matt Crawford admits that "nerves, sleep deprivation and a curry supper = high risk viewing this morning".
  • (10) Come supper time, it will serve up a page with the menu of your favourite takeaway, which you can tap to order.
  • (11) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
  • (12) The comments, which follow Clooney's repeated claims over the past week that Britain should return the Parthenon marbles to Greece, were reportedly made in Milan at a press event during which the film's cast posed in front of the famed Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece The Last Supper.
  • (13) She doesn’t see the difference between sharing, say, pictures of a romantic supper during a weekend in Paris and what you do in your hotel room at the end of the night.
  • (14) Asked if the "country supper" was a typical occurrence, he says: "Yes, because we were neighbours."
  • (15) During the rebellion by Tory MPs on the European Union bill last week, Lib Dem ministers sat eating a canteen supper while they waited for the vote.
  • (16) But the digital alarm clock that wakes us in the morning or the wristwatch that tells us we are late for supper are unnatural clocks.
  • (17) The disease of the biliary tract was suspected on the basis of the endoscopic retrograde representation of the common bile duct, and serologically differentiated from a chronic destructive, non-supperative cholangitis on the basis of a lack of antimitochondrial antibodies.
  • (18) Once neither painfully elitist nor patronisingly populist, Edinburgh in August now threatens to become an oligarchy, a Chipping Norton of the arts, its sluices greased by Foster's lager, rather than by country suppers and police horses.
  • (19) Over a supper of brill, roast beef, and lemon parfait, the leaders, not having to take a quick decision, seemed to chill a bit, taking the heat out of the increasingly intemperate exchanges that have marked the past few weeks.
  • (20) The list of " 12 things that the £1,400 UK dividend could buy ", illustrated by a colourful assortment of Lego characters, appears to portray Scots as shoeless, sun-starved, football-obsessed fish supper addicts, with poor grooming habits and such limited imaginations that their favoured activity at the Edinburgh festival is eating hotdogs.