What's the difference between diner and dinger?

Diner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who dines.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the interim, Phil cut the solo albums Star Spangled Springer (1973), Phil's Diner (1974) and Mystic Line (1975), and appeared on Roy Wood's album Mustard and on Zevon's debut album in 1976.
  • (2) "I have a gas stove, so with a little bit of a flame the gas worked, and we are, we had dinner, we had our coffee, so we were ok." Adam Gabbatt Horizon Diner in Manahawkin, west of Long Beach Island, serving customers displaced by Sandy.
  • (3) Shark finning, to serve Chinese diners, has also been a scourge.
  • (4) James Franco plays a small-town teacher who walks through a temporal portal in the back of a diner that whisks him from the present day and deposits him in the early-60s, where he makes it his mission to stop Lee Harvey Oswald pulling the trigger.
  • (5) The types were labeled: "finicky eaters," "health-conscious dieters," "diverse diners," and "high-calorie traditionalists."
  • (6) They did, however, let the dog diner sit on the banquette to eat his lunch – quite possibly a first – and swiftly perked up when the owner came out to greet him.
  • (7) He told the story on Tuesday how he had tried to sneak into a Cleveland restaurant for dinner, but found instead a crowd of diners cheering him on.
  • (8) Pictures of the president are everywhere – barbershops, diners, nail salons and bodegas.
  • (9) He often was to be seen at the Metro Diner on Broadway at 100th Street.
  • (10) Diners at the Laconda restaurant were enjoying their meals when the gang tried to break the reinforced windows.
  • (11) Apps like PayPal, Prezzo or Tab allow diners in restaurants to see what they’ve ordered, find out how much the bill comes to and pay it on their mobile at the table.
  • (12) As we puff our napkins I ask him what effect she had on other diners when she ate here.
  • (13) It's a slightly different approach than Rio's ubiquitous "kilo" joints, where diners fill up their plates and pay by weight.
  • (14) We’re seeing restaurants push the boundaries and, for the first time, PE is experiencing a foodie culture of food trucks, pop-up diners and local markets, such as the monthly Valley Market : an alfresco celebration of food, artisanal crafts and a great place to meet genuine PE people.
  • (15) JJ Route 100, Vermont All your picture-postcard impressions of rural New England – village greens, white-steepled wooden church spires and roadside diners – can be enjoyed along Vermont's Route 100, which runs the length of the Green Mountains.
  • (16) • Four locations, Downtown diner at 825 North First Street, mattsbigbreakfast.com .
  • (17) I get to walk to Pete’s Diner and back, by myself.” Ryan discussed moving into an office formerly used by Boehner, who smokes cigarettes.
  • (18) Guzmán went underground as Mexico descended into the abyss, boasting that he paid out $5m a month to corrupt officials, and making sudden, brazen appearances such as that in May 2005 at a restaurant in Nuevo Laredo, his enemy’s doorstep, when 40 diners found the doors suddenly locked by his gunmen to be told: “Don’t be alarmed, order whatever you want, and we’ll pay.” Another of his banquets in Mexico City was raided by the army – but too late, finding only four hapless members of the band paid to entertain Guzmán, who were arrested for possession of firearms.
  • (19) In one video, the attackers – named by Palestinian media as Muhammad and Khalid Muhamra – can be seeing sitting in dark suits and white shirts at a table in the popular Max Brenner restaurant, where they had reportedly ordered drinks and chocolate brownies, before standing up suddenly and firing at close range at fellow diners.
  • (20) Across from my hotel, the Fun City complex contained an imitation midway, a bowling alley, a couple of bars, a replica diner and, tucked in between a hotel and a spa, the Catfish Bend Casino.

Dinger


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He blasts 156 dingers in three seasons in Dallas, although the Rangers suck and are financially hamstrung because of the deal.
  • (2) The absence of polysorbate 80, thiamine, or vitamin B12 prevented the appearance of Dinger's zones of growth from small inocula.
  • (3) Chromosomal DNA from dinger zones (visible subsurface zones of leptospiral growth) of first semisolid subcultures of field isolates was also isolated and characterized, thus greatly speeding up the diagnostic process.
  • (4) All of that is pretty much what he told assembled Wing Dingers, informally referring back to notes on a card and going through his CV.