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restaurant
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French restaurant, present participle of the verb restaurer, corresponding to Latin restaurans, restaurantis, present participle of restauro (“I restore”), from the name of the 'restorative' soup served in the first establishments.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???s.t(?).???/, /???s.t(?).??nt/, /???s.t(?).?(?)nt/
- (US) IPA(key): /???s.t(?)???nt/, /???s.t(?).??nt/
- Hyphenation: tau?rant
Noun
restaurant (plural restaurants)
- An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:restaurant
Derived terms
- resto
Related terms
- restaurateur
Translations
See also
- bar
- cook, chef
- drive-in
- fast food
- grill
- menu, Appendix:Menus
- slow food
- waiter m, waitress f, waitron
Afrikaans
Alternative forms
- restourant
Etymology
From Dutch restaurant, from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?st????rant/, /r?stu?rant/
Noun
restaurant (plural restaurante or restaurants, diminutive restaurantjie)
- restaurant
Catalan
Etymology
From French restaurant.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /r?s.t?w??ant/
- (Central) IPA(key): /r?s.t?w??an/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /res.taw??ant/
- Rhymes: -ant
Noun
restaurant m (plural restaurants)
- restaurant
Verb
restaurant
- present participle of restaurar
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??sd?o????]
Noun
restaurant c (singular definite restauranten, plural indefinite restauranter)
- restaurant
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?sto??r?nt/, /r?stu?r?nt/, /r?st??r?nt/
- Hyphenation: res?tau?rant
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
restaurant n (plural restaurants or restauranten, diminutive restaurantje n)
- restaurant
Usage notes
In Belgium, the plural form restauranten is common and co-exists with the plural form restaurants. In the Netherlands, the plural form restauranten is rare.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: restaurant
- ? Indonesian: restoran
French
Etymology
From the present participle of restaurer. Corresponds to Latin restaurans, restaurantem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??s.t?.???/
Noun
restaurant m (plural restaurants)
- restaurant
Verb
restaurant
- present participle of restaurer
Related terms
- restaurer
- restauration
Descendants
Further reading
- “restaurant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
restaurant
- third-person plural present active indicative of restaur?
Norman
Etymology
Either inherited from Old French or borrowed from French.
Noun
restaurant m (plural restaurants)
- restaurant
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?st??r??/
Noun
restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restauranter, definite plural restaurantene)
- a restaurant
References
- “restaurant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Noun
restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restaurantar, definite plural restaurantane)
- a restaurant
References
- “restaurant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
From French restaurant.
Noun
restaurant n (plural restaurante)
- restaurant
restaurant From the web:
- what restaurants are open
- what restaurants are open near me
- what restaurants are open right now
- what restaurants are open on thanksgiving
- what restaurants are open for dine in
- what restaurants are open on christmas day
- what restaurants are open today
- what restaurants deliver
check
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ch?k, IPA(key): /t???k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophones: cheque, Czech
Etymology 1
From Middle English chek, chekke, borrowed from Old French eschek, eschec, eschac, from Medieval Latin scaccus, borrowed from Arabic ????? (š?h, “king or check at chess, shah”), borrowed from Persian ???? (šâh, “king”), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (mlk? /š?h/), from Old Persian ???? (XŠ /xš?ya?iya/, “king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati (“he rules, he has power over”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to gain power over, gain control over”).
All English senses developed from the chess sense. Compare Saterland Frisian Schak, Schach, Dutch schaak, German Schach, Danish skak, Swedish schack, Icelandic skák, French échec, Italian scacco. See chess and shah (“king of Persia or Iran”).
Noun
check (plural checks)
- (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece. [from 14th c.]
- An inspection or examination.
- A control; a limit or stop.
- (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ?) used as an indicator.
- Synonyms: (UK) tick, checkmark
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist
- Norton had made a neat, lawyerly check beside each of the items he and Billy had picked up—half a dozen or so, including the milk and a six-pack of Coke.
- (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
- Synonym: (UK, Canada) cheque
- (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
- Synonyms: bill, (Canada) cheque
- (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
- A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
- 1963, American law reports annotated: second series, volume 89
- […] the statute prohibits a machine which dispenses checks or tokens for replay […]
- 1963, American law reports annotated: second series, volume 89
- A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
- A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
- (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. [from 15th c.]
- A small chink or crack.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
References
- check on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English chekken, partly from Old French eschequier and partly from the noun (see above).
Verb
check (third-person singular simple present checks, present participle checking, simple past and past participle checked)
- To inspect; to examine.
- To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
- Synonyms: check off, (UK) tick, (UK) tick off, cross off, strike off
- Antonym: uncheck
- To control, limit, or halt.
- Synonyms: curtail, restrain; see also Thesaurus:curb
- c. 1775–1780, Edmund Burke, letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
- so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
- She was about to retort but something checked the words on her tongue.
- To verify or compare with a source of information.
- To leave in safekeeping.
- To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
- (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
- (sports) To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
- Synonyms: tackle, trap, attack
- (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
- (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
- To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
- To make a stop; to pause; with at.
- The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, either is disabled for the future, or else checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.
- (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- To act as a curb or restraint.
- 1677, John Dryden, All for Love
- It [his presence] checks too strong upon me.
- 1677, John Dryden, All for Love
- (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
Derived terms
- See below
Descendants
- ? Gulf Arabic: ???? (??yy?k)
- ? Hijazi Arabic: ??????? (šayyak)
- ? Finnish: tsekata
- ? German: checken
- ? Portuguese: checar
- ? Russian: ??????? (?ékat?)
- ? Russian: ???????? (?éknut?)
- ? Russian: ?????????? (pro?ékat?)
- ? Spanish: chequear
Translations
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 3
By shortening from chequer, from Old French eschequier (“chessboard”), from Medieval Latin scaccarium, ultimately from the same Persian root as above.
Noun
check (plural checks)
- (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
- 1819, Charles Mowry, in the Downington Pennsylvania American Republican, quoted in Herbery Wisbey, Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend:
- One of her female followers, had made a very elegant piece of check. The Friend, being at her house, on a visit, the lady shewed the check to her, and as evidence of devotion to her leader, proposed presenting her with a pattern off the piece for her own use.
- 1819, Charles Mowry, in the Downington Pennsylvania American Republican, quoted in Herbery Wisbey, Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend:
- Any fabric woven with such a pattern.
Translations
Verb
check (third-person singular simple present checks, present participle checking, simple past and past participle checked)
- (transitive) To mark with a check pattern.
Adjective
check (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Divided into small squares by transverse, perpendicular, and horizontal lines.
- Synonym: chequy
References
- Michael Quinion (2004) , “Cheque”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, ?ISBN
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “check”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Chinese
Etymology
Borrowed from English check.
Pronunciation
Verb
check
- (Cantonese) to check
Synonyms
- ????? (ji?nchá)
Danish
Etymology
From English cheque, check, from Old French eschek (“check (in chess)”), via Medieval Latin scaccus and Arabic ????? (š?h) from Persian ???? (šâh, “king”) (cf. also Danish skak).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?????]
Noun
check c
- cheque
Inflection
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
check
- first-person singular present indicative of checken
- imperative of checken
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??k/
Noun
check m (plural checks)
- (slang) fist bump
Spanish
Noun
check m (plural checks)
- check (mark)
Swedish
Etymology
From English check
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k?/
- Homophones: käck, tjeck
Noun
check c
- cheque, check
Declension
References
check From the web:
- what checks and balances
- what checks does walmart cash
- what check cashing places are open
- what checks your oxygen level
- what check engine light means
- what checks clear immediately
- what checks are missing from the constitution
- what checking account should i open