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dinor (plural dinors)

  1. (biochemistry) A taraxastane from which two methyl groups have been removed.
    • 1989, Robert George Ackman, Marine Biogenic Lipids, Fats & Oils - Volume 1:
      This is the first example of a dinor-carotenoid to be reported.
    • 2005, K. D. Rainsford, Nimesulide - Actions and Uses, page 160:
      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 and its 2,3 dinor metabolite, as a marker of COX-2 inhibition in vivo.
    • 2011, Arthur H. Jeske, Mosby's Dental Drug Reference, page 756:
      Metabolized to 1,2-dinor metabolite and 1,2,3,4-tetranor metabolite.
  2. (Western Pennsylvania) A diner (small restaurant modeled after a dining car) in northwest Pennsylvania.
    • 1989, Pittsburgh History, page 111:
      It seems that dinors are unique to northwestern Pennsylvania: Erie's 1958 city directory lists 19 dinors compared to two diners
    • 1999, Brian Butko, Kevin Joseph Patrick, Diners of Pennsylvania, page G-200:
      The immediate Erie area still has five dinors—Girard, Haggerty's, Park, Peninsula, and Russ's.
    • 2008, Michael Engle, Mario Monti, Diners of New York:
      It has been said in these areas that when you go out to eat, you are a “diner,” but you eat in a “dinor.”
    • 2010, Lew Bryson -, Pennsylvania Breweries, page 272:
      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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