What's the difference between diner and restaurant?

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.

Restaurant


Definition:

  • (n.) An eating house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
  • (2) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
  • (3) This month, Ucas will bring out an interactive map of Gaza , with live updates, highlighting sports events and restaurants, as well as areas of historical interest.
  • (4) Eventually, when the noise died down, the pair made a dash for it, taking refuge in a nearby restaurant for the rest of the night.
  • (5) Work over the past 17 years has consistently failed to reveal any objective sign accompanying the transient sensations that some individuals experience after the experimental ingestion of monosodium glutamate and it is questionable whether the term 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome' has any validity.
  • (6) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
  • (7) Mbugua said fewer people were coming to the bars and restaurants at night.
  • (8) On Wednesday night the owner of the restaurant that held the fundraiser said the offending menu had not been displayed publicly.
  • (9) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
  • (10) Sensitivity to sulfites was suspected based on exacerbation after restaurant meals and metaproterenol 5% inhalant solution.
  • (11) His companions eventually apologised to me, but only after apologising to my boyfriend, and only after being kicked out by restaurant staff who reinforced that the behaviour was unacceptable.
  • (12) It is there that Clar runs a Caribbean restaurant and their children receive the best schooling money can buy.
  • (13) The restaurant was already castigated by Channel Four News for serving £4 bowls of cereal in a borough in which thousands of poor families can’t afford to feed their children.
  • (14) And Doordash, which uses Starship Technologies miniature self-driving vehicles, is replacing restaurant delivery people.
  • (15) In 1972, he launched a more ambitious plan by buying Hintlesham Hall, a decrepit grade-11 listed building in Suffolk, converting it into a home and three restaurants and taking over the Hintlesham festival held there.
  • (16) A single-subject design was applied to study increase in functional use of language by a 14-yr.-old Down Syndrome girl from a mean length of utterance of 1.3 words to 4.4 in a classroom, 5.1 in the restaurant, and 4.7 during transportation.
  • (17) I also earned meals by decorating a wall in a local restaurant.
  • (18) 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.
  • (19) Two firefighters died in 2007 battling a restaurant fire in the West Roxbury neighborhood
  • (20) Generalization of treatment effects was assessed in informal community restaurants.