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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