"drive-in" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: EN-AU ck1 drive-in.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: Deverbal from drive in. Etymology templates: {{m|en|drive#Verb}} drive, {{m|en|in}} in Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} drive-in (not comparable)
  1. (US, of an establishment) Providing service to patrons who remain in their automobiles and partake while parked. Tags: US, not-comparable Derived forms: drive-in movie, drive-in theatre Translations (providing service to patrons in their automobiles): drive-in- (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-drive-in-en-adj-yftOT2pv Categories (other): American English, English links with manual fragments, English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 31 17 29 24

Noun

Audio: EN-AU ck1 drive-in.ogg [Australia] Forms: drive-ins [plural]
Etymology: Deverbal from drive in. Etymology templates: {{m|en|drive#Verb}} drive, {{m|en|in}} in Head templates: {{en-noun}} drive-in (plural drive-ins)
  1. (US, Canada, Australia) An outdoor cinema where movies are projected onto a large screen and patrons watch from inside their vehicles, listening either by a speaker or a designated radio frequency. Tags: Australia, Canada, US Synonyms (outdoor cinema): drive-in cinema, drive-in movie, drive-in theater, drive-in theatre Translations (outdoor cinema): 得來速 (Chinese Mandarin), 得来速 (déláisù) (Chinese Mandarin), envetura kinejo (Esperanto), drive-in-elokuvateatteri (Finnish), ciné-parc [masculine] (French), drive-in [masculine] (French), Autokino [neuter] (German), autósmozi (Hungarian), bílabíó [neuter] (Icelandic), cineparco [masculine] (Italian), cineparcheggio [masculine] (Italian), ドライブインシアター (doraibu-in shiatā) (Japanese), ドライブイン (doraibu-in) (Japanese), drive-in [masculine] (Portuguese), автокинотеа́тр (avtokinoteátr) [masculine] (Russian), драйв-и́н (drajv-ín) [masculine] (Russian), autocine [masculine] (Spanish), autocinema [Mexico, masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-drive-in-en-noun-xtiL~37V Categories (other): American English, Australian English, Canadian English, English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 31 17 29 24 Disambiguation of 'outdoor cinema': 93 4 3 Disambiguation of 'outdoor cinema': 93 4 3
  2. (US, Canada) A restaurant where patrons remain in their vehicles to consume their meals; the meal may be ordered and delivered to one's vehicle by a carhop waiter; or may require patrons to use a service counter. The cars in the parking lot serve as the patrons' dining room, there being a lack of dining rooms and tables. Tags: Canada, US
    Sense id: en-drive-in-en-noun-PfWS9KqW Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, English deverbals, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English links with manual fragments, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English deverbals: 17 24 37 22 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 23 41 20 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 15 19 49 17 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 13 23 47 16 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 31 17 29 24 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 16 25 38 21
  3. (US, Canada) A drive-through restaurant where patrons remain in their vehicles and order food and beverages via a speaker phone; the meal is delivered by a service window accessible by car. Tags: Canada, US Categories (topical): Restaurants
    Sense id: en-drive-in-en-noun-~0nKrWXr Disambiguation of Restaurants: 5 10 30 55 Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 31 17 29 24
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (drive-in restaurant): drive-in restaurant Hyponyms (drive-in restaurant): drive-through, drive-through restaurant Related terms: car hop Translations (drive-in restaurant): drive-in-ravintola (Finnish), autoravintola (Finnish)
Disambiguation of 'drive-in restaurant': 0 48 52 Disambiguation of 'drive-in restaurant': 0 48 52 Disambiguation of 'drive-in restaurant': 0 48 52

Inflected forms

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        "US",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/EN-AU_ck1_drive-in.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "providing service to patrons in their automobiles",
      "word": "drive-in-"
    }
  ],
  "word": "drive-in"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English deverbals",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English links with manual fragments",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English phrasal nouns",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "en:Restaurants"
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  "descendants": [
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ja",
            "2": "ドライブイン",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "doraibuin"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Japanese: ドライブイン (doraibuin)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Japanese: ドライブイン (doraibuin)"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "drive-in",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: drive-in",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: drive-in"
    }
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      "args": {
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        "2": "drive#Verb"
      },
      "expansion": "drive",
      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "in"
      },
      "expansion": "in",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from drive in.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drive-ins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "drive-in (plural drive-ins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "sense": "drive-in restaurant",
      "word": "drive-through"
    },
    {
      "sense": "drive-in restaurant",
      "word": "drive-through restaurant"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "car hop"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Australian English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1975, David Manning White, Popular Culture, page 154",
          "text": "Owners and sponsors of the drive-ins feel that in three-quarters of their patrons they have tapped a practically prehistoric strain of human—the hitherto non-movie-goer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Mary Alampi, Dun & Bradstreet/Gale Group Industry Handbook, page 26",
          "text": "This fact may seem surprising since the major movie studios, reluctant to risk cheapening their images by releasing first-run films to drive-ins, made only older movies affordable to drive-in operators.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2000 Year Book Australia, page 346",
          "text": "At the end of June 1997, there were 325 cinema sites and 28 drive-in sites in Australia.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An outdoor cinema where movies are projected onto a large screen and patrons watch from inside their vehicles, listening either by a speaker or a designated radio frequency."
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        [
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        [
          "screen",
          "screen"
        ],
        [
          "speaker",
          "speaker"
        ]
      ],
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        "(US, Canada, Australia) An outdoor cinema where movies are projected onto a large screen and patrons watch from inside their vehicles, listening either by a speaker or a designated radio frequency."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The teenagers went down to the drive-in to order some hamburgers and fries."
        },
        {
          "text": "1965 May 7, Don Moser, The nightmare of life with Billy, LIFE, page 101,"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A restaurant where patrons remain in their vehicles to consume their meals; the meal may be ordered and delivered to one's vehicle by a carhop waiter; or may require patrons to use a service counter. The cars in the parking lot serve as the patrons' dining room, there being a lack of dining rooms and tables."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "carhop",
          "carhop"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, Canada) A restaurant where patrons remain in their vehicles to consume their meals; the meal may be ordered and delivered to one's vehicle by a carhop waiter; or may require patrons to use a service counter. The cars in the parking lot serve as the patrons' dining room, there being a lack of dining rooms and tables."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986, Business Week, numbers 2967-2978, page 136",
          "text": "Even before franchising genius Ray A. Kroc approached Mac and Dick McDonald to become the licensing agent for their small San Bernardino (Calif.) restaurant, scores of drive-in operators had begun copying McDonald′s speedy burger-fries-and-shake menus. Love contends that Kroc′s success came largely from his commitment to automating the preparation of drive-in meals.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Reid Duffy, Reid Duffy's Guide to Indiana's Favorite Restaurants: With a Recipe Sampler, page 135",
          "text": "For during the fabled Indiana blizzard of ′78, Tom found himself trapped inside the kitchen of the drive-in for three days before his family, and—more to the point—his customers, could reach him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A drive-through restaurant where patrons remain in their vehicles and order food and beverages via a speaker phone; the meal is delivered by a service window accessible by car."
      ],
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        [
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          "drive-through"
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      ],
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        "(US, Canada) A drive-through restaurant where patrons remain in their vehicles and order food and beverages via a speaker phone; the meal is delivered by a service window accessible by car."
      ],
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        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    }
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/EN-AU_ck1_drive-in.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
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    }
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    {
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "word": "drive-in cinema"
    },
    {
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "word": "drive-in movie"
    },
    {
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "word": "drive-in theater"
    },
    {
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "word": "drive-in theatre"
    },
    {
      "sense": "drive-in restaurant",
      "word": "drive-in restaurant"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "word": "得來速"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "déláisù",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "word": "得来速"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "word": "envetura kinejo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "word": "drive-in-elokuvateatteri"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ciné-parc"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "drive-in"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Autokino"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "word": "autósmozi"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bílabíó"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cineparco"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cineparcheggio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "doraibu-in shiatā",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "word": "ドライブインシアター"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "doraibu-in",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "word": "ドライブイン"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "drive-in"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "avtokinoteátr",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "автокинотеа́тр"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "drajv-ín",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "драйв-и́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "autocine"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "outdoor cinema",
      "tags": [
        "Mexico",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "autocinema"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "drive-in restaurant",
      "word": "drive-in-ravintola"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "drive-in restaurant",
      "word": "autoravintola"
    }
  ],
  "word": "drive-in"
}

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