different between dinner vs kail

English

Etymology

From Middle English dyner, from Old French disner (“lunch”, but originally “breakfast”), (modern Old French dîner), from Latin dis- + i?i?n? (“to break the fast”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?n?/
• (US) enPR: d?n??r, IPA^(key): /?d?n??/, [?d?n?]
• Rhymes: -?n?(?)
• Hyphenation: din?ner

Noun

dinner (countable and uncountable, plural dinners)

1. A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).

   • At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.

   • 1919, Elisabeth P. Stork (translator), Heidi, Johanna Spyri[1]:

     It was already late for school, so the boy took his time and only arrived in the village when Heidi came home for dinner. […] "Come to the table now and eat with us. Then you can go up with Heidi, and when you bring her back at night, you can get your supper here."

2. The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I want to cook dinner.

3. An evening meal.

   I had some friends to dinner two nights ago.

4. A meal given to an animal.

5. A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.
6. (uncountable) The food provided or consumed at any such meal.

Usage notes

• There are differences in usage according to the social class of the speaker. Working-class and lower-middle-class speakers in Britain, for example, are more likely to refer to the midday meal as "dinner" and the evening meal as "tea" rather than "supper". Some speakers use common collocations of dinner such as school dinner, Sunday dinner and Christmas dinner to describe meals that they wouldn't otherwise call a dinner.

Synonyms

• (an evening meal): supper, tea
• (meal given to an animal): chow
• (midday meal): lunch, luncheon
• (formal meal for many people eaten at a special occasion): banquet, feast, luncheon

Derived terms

Related terms

• (combinatorial form): deipno-
• (fear of): deipnophobia
• (verb): dine

Descendants

• ? Hausa: dina
• ? Maori: tina
• ? Swazi: lidina
• ? Unami: ntinel
• ? Xhosa: idinala

Translations

Verb

dinner (third-person singular simple present dinners, present participle dinnering, simple past and past participle dinnered)

1. (intransitive) To eat a dinner.
   • 2014, Caroline Akervik, White Pine, White Bear Lake, MN: Melange Books, Chapter 6, p. 57,^[3]

     Once I was geared up, I joined him on the wide, flat seat of the sled which was loaded up with hot food for the jacks who were dinnering out since they worked a forty far from the camp.

2. (transitive) To provide (someone) with a dinner.
   • 1887, Caroline Emily Cameron, A Devout Lover, London: F.V. White & Co., Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 181,^[4]

     She had taken her about to concerts and exhibitions—she had dinnered her at the Colonies, and suppered her at the New Club.

   • 2004, Colm Tóibín, The Master, New York: Scribner, Chapter Two, p. 26,^[5]

     ‘The Irish were awful anyway,’ Lady Wolseley said, ‘and their not attending the season should be greeted with relief. The dreary matrons dragging their dreary daughters about the place and dinnering up every possible partner for them. The truth is that no one wants to marry their daughters, no one at all.’

Synonyms

• (eat a dinner): dine (formal)

Translations

Anagrams

• endrin, in dern

English

Noun

kail (countable and uncountable, plural kails)

1. Alternative form of kale.
2. (Scotland, archaic) Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables.
3. A broth made with kale or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner.

Derived terms

• kailyard
• kaily

Anagrams

• Kali, Laki, Lika, ilka, kali, kila, laik

Estonian

Noun

kail

1. adessive singular of kai

Indonesian

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *kawil (“fishhook”). Cognate to Tagalog kawil (“fishhook”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ka?l]
• Hyphenation: ka?il

Noun

kail (first-person possessive kailku, second-person possessive kailmu, third-person possessive kailnya)

1. fishhook

   Synonym: pancing

2. fishing rod

Derived terms

Further reading

• “kail” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.