Dining or having dinner?

According to the online dictionary Thefreedictionary.com the verb to dine comes from the Old French term disner, contracted from Vulgar Latin disjējūnāre and its pronunciation is: dine [daɪn].
The referred verb presents three different applications:

1. (intr) to eat dinner: he didn't dine yesterday.

2. (intr; often foll by on, off, or upon) to make one's meal (of): the guests dined on roast beef.

3. (tr) Informal to entertain to dinner (esp in the phrase to wine and dine someone): He wines and dines Betty like a queen.

Special meanings:
Dine in:  eat at home - He dines in on wednesdays.
Dine out: eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home - He dines out at the Carlton all the week.
As we just finished to discover, when someone is hungry he can solve the problem having dinner or dining.

By Orlando Ribeiro
02/1/2010

Fix the dinner: is it right?

Teachers should never understimate students because they always have important previous knowledge. Today morning I got one more evidence about this statement.

Mr. Sidnei, one of my English students, built a good sentence using the verb "to fix" in the sense of  "to prepare" in the simple past tense. I have never used this meaning so I considered it at least strange. However, I told him I would look for that meaning later.

Dear Mr. Sidnei, you were right about using the verb to fix in that sense. Check the explanation I have got on thefreedictionary.

Fix:
To make ready; prepare:

"fixed the room for the guests";
"fix lunch for the kids";
"fixed himself a milkshak"

Thanks for helping me to get another view about this matter as well as for let me not forget that teachers don't know everything!

A big hug!