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Tekoälykääntäjä
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Substantiivit
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Määritelmät

Adjektiivit

  1. (US, of an establishment) Providing service to patrons who remain in their automobiles and partake while parked.
  2. (Philippines) motel; motor inn

Substantiivit

  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.
  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.
  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.

Esimerkit

  • drive-in bank; drive-in church; drive-in funeral parlor
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • At the end of June 1997, there were 325 cinema sites and 28 drive-in sites in Australia.
  • The teen-agers went down to the drive-in to order some hamburgers and fries.
  • At the retarded children′s school, the youngsters occasionally got hamburgers for lunch from a drive-in chain.[...]he cruised the city looking for drive-ins where he wasn′t known.
  • Even before franchising genius Ray A. Kroc approached Mac and Dick McDonald to become the licensing agent for their small San Bernadino (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.
  • 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.

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