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Dime vs. Dine — What's the Difference?

Dime vs. Dine — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Dime and Dine

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Dime

A coin of the United States or Canada worth ten cents.

Dine

To have dinner.

Dime

(US) A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar.

Dine

To give dinner to; entertain at dinner
Wined and dined the visiting senators.

Dime

(Canada) A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
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Dine

(used with a pl. verb) The Navajo people.

Dime

(North America) A small amount of money.
She didn't spend a dime.

Dine

The Navajo language.

Dime

An assist.

Dine

(intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.

Dime

(slang) A playing card with the rank of ten.

Dine

To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.

Dime

(slang) Ten dollars.

Dine

To dine upon; to have to eat.

Dime

(slang) A thousand dollars.

Dine

(obsolete) dinnertime

Dime

(slang) A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.

Dine

To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep.

Dime

(slang) A ten year prison sentence.

Dine

To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men.

Dime

(slang) Payment responsibility.
Are you traveling on the company's dime?

Dine

To dine upon; to have to eat.

Dime

A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).

Dine

Have supper; eat dinner;
We often dine with friends in this restaurant

Dime

(American football) A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.

Dine

Give dinner to; host for dinner;
I'm wining and dining my friends

Dime

To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.

Dime

To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).
I get the best-sounding sustain and smooth harmonic distortion when I run the amp dimed.

Dime

A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.

Dime

A United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar

Dime

Street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for ten dollars

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