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dine (DIGHN) (verb)
To eat: After a busy day at work, Heath and Darla liked to relax and dine by candlelight.
dyne (DIGHN) (noun)
A unit of force that, acting on a mass of one gram, increases its velocity by one centimeter per second along the direction in which it acts: The dyne is the basic unit of force in the centimeter-gram-second system.
After Marlon will dine with friends, he is going to a lecture at the science center about the dyne and how it relates to every day life.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group D; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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dyne
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dyna-, dyn-, dynamo-, -dyne, -dynamia, -dynamic
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(Greek: power, strength, force, mightiness)
(Greek: οδυνη, pain)