Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dine off sth
Participle: dined off sth
Gerund: dining off sth
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dine off sth |
| you | dine off sth |
| he;she;it | dines off sth |
| we | dine off sth |
| you | dine off sth |
| they | dine off sth |
Perfect
| I | have dined off sth |
| you | have dined off sth |
| he;she;it | has dined off sth |
| we | have dined off sth |
| you | have dined off sth |
| they | have dined off sth |
Past
| I | dined off sth |
| you | dined off sth |
| he;she;it | dined off sth |
| we | dined off sth |
| you | dined off sth |
| they | dined off sth |
Pluperfect
| I | had dined off sth |
| you | had dined off sth |
| he;she;it | had dined off sth |
| we | had dined off sth |
| you | had dined off sth |
| they | had dined off sth |
Future
| I | will dine off sth |
| you | will dine off sth |
| he;she;it | will dine off sth |
| we | will dine off sth |
| you | will dine off sth |
| they | will dine off sth |
Future Perfect
| I | will have dined off sth |
| you | will have dined off sth |
| he;she;it | will have dined off sth |
| we | will have dined off sth |
| you | will have dined off sth |
| they | will have dined off sth |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dine off sth |
| you | dine off sth |
| he;she;it | dine off sth |
| we | dine off sth |
| you | dine off sth |
| they | dine off sth |
Perfect
| I | have dined off sth |
| you | have dined off sth |
| he;she;it | have dined off sth |
| we | have dined off sth |
| you | have dined off sth |
| they | have dined off sth |
Imperfect
| I | dined off sth |
| you | dined off sth |
| he;she;it | dined off sth |
| we | dined off sth |
| you | dined off sth |
| they | dined off sth |
Pluperfect
| I | had dined off sth |
| you | had dined off sth |
| he;she;it | had dined off sth |
| we | had dined off sth |
| you | had dined off sth |
| they | had dined off sth |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dine off sth |
| you | would dine off sth |
| he;she;it | would dine off sth |
| we | would dine off sth |
| you | would dine off sth |
| they | would dine off sth |
Perfect
| I | would have dined off sth |
| you | would have dined off sth |
| he;she;it | would have dined off sth |
| we | would have dined off sth |
| you | would have dined off sth |
| they | would have dined off sth |
Imperative
| you | dine off sth |
| we | Let's dine off sth |
| you | dine off sth |
Verbs conjugated like 'dine'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dine'
dice,
die,
dike,
dime,
din,
ding,
dink,
dint,
dite,
dive,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. 1297, from O.Fr.
disner, originally "take the first meal of the day," from stem of Gallo-Romance
*desjunare "to break one's fast," from L.
dis- "undo" + L.L.
jejunare "to fast," from L.
jejunus "fasting, hungry."
Diner "railway car for eating" is 1890, Amer.Eng.
Dinette is 1930, with false Fr. ending.
2. From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus. See: Middle English '
dynen', Old French '
disner'.
Verbs referencing "dine"
Spanish
desayunar, Valencian
dejunar, Occitan
dejunar, Portuguese
desjejuar, Ido dinear.
Sample Sentences
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CHAPTER II THE PASSAGE OUT WE all dined together that day; and a rather formidable party we were: no fewer than eighty-six strong. The vessel being pretty deep in the water, with all her coals on board and so many passengers, and the [...]
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[...] of conversation, frequently missed the spittoon at five paces; and one (but he was certainly short-sighted ) mistook the closed sash for the open window, at three. On another occasion, when I dined out, and was sitting with two ladies and some gentlemen round a fire before dinner, one of the company fell short of the fireplace, six distinct times. I am disposed to think, however, that this [...]
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[...] was something larger than two English heavy night coaches, and might have been the twin-brother of a French Diligence. My speculations were speedily set at rest, however, for as soon as we had dined, there came rumbling up the street, shaking its sides like a corpulent giant, a kind of barge on wheels. After much blundering and backing, it stopped at the door: rolling heavily from side to side [...]
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[...] men in their shirt-sleeves looking on at their unfinished houses, planning out to-morrow 's work; and we riding onward, high above them, like a whirlwind. It was amusing, too, when we had dined, and rattled down a steep pass, having no other moving power than the weight of the carriages themselves, to see the engine released, long after us, come buzzing down alone, like a great insect, its [...]
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[...] below, when we drove up, as if it had been illuminated on some occasion of rejoicing. It is an excellent house, and the proprietors have most bountiful notions of providing the creature comforts. Dining alone with my wife in our own room, one day, I counted fourteen dishes on the table at once.
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We encamped near a solitary log-house, for the sake of its water, and dined upon the plain. The baskets contained roast fowls, buffalo 's tongue (an exquisite dainty, by the way ), ham, bread, cheese, and butter; biscuits, champagne, sherry; lemons and sugar for punch; and [...]
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[...] company in general.) Yes, sir. The conversational powers of the company having been by this time pretty heavily taxed, the straw hat opens the door and gets out; and all the rest alight also. We dine soon afterwards with the boarders in the house, and have nothing to drink but tea and coffee. As they are both very bad and the water is worse, I ask for brandy; but it is a Temperance Hotel, and [...]
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[...] delicious, and though we had left Summer behind us in the west, and were fast leaving Spring, we were moving towards Niagara and home. We alighted in a pleasant wood towards the middle of the day, dined on a fallen tree, and leaving our best fragments with a cottager, and our worst with the pigs (who swarm in this part of the country like grains of sand on the sea-shore, to the great comfort of our [...]
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We breakfasted at eight, lunched at twelve, dined at three, and took our tea at half-past seven. We had abundance of amusements, and dinner was not the least among them: firstly, for its own sake; secondly, because of its extraordinary length: its [...]
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