dinor

plural dinors

1. biochemistryA taraxastane from which two methyl groups have been removed.

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

   1989, Robert George Ackman, Marine Biogenic Lipids, Fats & Oils - Volume 1

   2 more examples

   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.

   2005, K. D. Rainsford, Nimesulide - Actions and Uses, page 160

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

   2011, Arthur H. Jeske, Mosby's Dental Drug Reference, page 756

2. PennsylvaniaWesternA diner (small restaurant modeled after a dining car) in northwest Pennsylvania.

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

   1999, Brian Butko, Kevin Joseph Patrick, Diners of Pennsylvania, page G-200

   3 more examples

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

   1989, Pittsburgh History, page 111

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

   2008, Michael Engle, Mario Monti, Diners of New York

   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.

   2010, Lew Bryson -, Pennsylvania Breweries, page 272