Meaning of dinor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A taraxastane from which two methyl groups have been removed.
2. A diner (small restaurant modeled after a dining car) in northwest Pennsylvania.
   Pennsylvania, Western

Examples

“This is the first example of a dinor-carotenoid to be reported.”

“Cullen et al. also measured urinary output on day 14 of TxB₂, and the 11-dehydro-metabolites of TxB₂, as an indication of COX-1 inhibition in vivo and urinary 6-keto-PGF_(1α) and its 2,3 dinor metabolite, as a marker of COX-2 inhibition in vivo.”

“Metabolized to 1,2-dinor metabolite and 1,2,3,4-tetranor metabolite.”

“It seems that dinors are unique to northwestern Pennsylvania: Erie's 1958 city directory lists 19 dinors compared to two diners”

“The immediate Erie area still has five dinors—Girard, Haggerty's, Park, Peninsula, and Russ's.”

“It has been said in these areas that when you go out to eat, you are a “diner,” but you eat in a “dinor.””

“The Northwest Corner may have plenty of regional specialties, but the only one I found was bumbleberry pie, a pie we saw at any number of dinors—that's not a typo, that's how "diner" is spelled in the Erie corner.”

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