different between dining vs dine

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?da?n??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a?n??

Noun

dining (countable and uncountable, plural dinings)

1. Eating dinner as a social function.
   • 1869, The XIX Century (volume 1, page 6)

     For my own part I preferred to remain with the ship, and I am now glad that I did so, for the welcome we received at Havana; the cheering crowds upon the quay; the friends we met and made; the dinings in and dinings out […]

2. Entertaining someone to dinner.

Related terms

• dining car
• dining room
• dining table

Verb

dining

1. present participle of dine

Anagrams

• indign, niding

English

Etymology

From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disi?n?re (“to eat breakfast”), from disiei?n?re (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + i?i?n? (“to fast”), from Latin iei?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Verb

dine (third-person singular simple present dines, present participle dining, simple past and past participle dined)

1. (intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.

   • What wol ye dine?

Related terms

• dine at the Y
• dine out
• diner
• dining
• dinner

Translations

Noun

dine (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) dinnertime

Anagrams

• Enid, Iden, IndE, Nide, dein, deni, enid, iDEN, nide

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• dinne

Pronunciation

• (Zurich) IPA^(key): /?din?/

Adverb

dine

1. inside
   • 1903, Robert Walser, Der Teich:

     I will doch go lose, was sie säge dinne.

     I just want to listen to what they're saying inside.

Danish

Pronoun

dine

1. (possessive) plural of din

See also

French

Verb

dine

1. first-person singular present indicative of diner
2. third-person singular present indicative of diner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of diner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of diner
5. second-person singular imperative of diner

Anagrams

• déni
• Inde

Middle Dutch

Determiner

dine

1. inflection of dijn:
   1. feminine nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

dine

1. Alternative form of dynne

Etymology 2

Adjective

dine

1. Alternative form of digne

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þínir.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

dine pl

1. plural of din

References

• “din” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

See also

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þínir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?n?/ (example of pronunciation)

Pronoun

dine pl

1. plural of din

References

• “din” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Tagalog

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?di.n?/

Adverb

dine

1. (Batangas) here

Synonyms

• (Manila, Standard Tagalog) dito

Derived terms

• parine
• narine

Turkish

Noun

d?ne

1. dative singular of din