Menu

Definition: Menu

Menu

Noun

1. A list of dishes available at a restaurant; "the menu was in French".

2. The dishes making up a meal.

3. (computer science) a list of options available to a computer user.

4. An agenda of things to do; "they worked rapidly down the menu of reports".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "menu" was first used: 1837. (references)

Computing

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Menu

Food

Table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree.

List

Account; bill, bill of costs; terrier; tally, listing, itemization; atlas; book, ledger; catalogue raisonne; tableau; invoice, bill of lading; prospectus; bill of fare, menu, carte; score, census, statistics, returns.

Crosswords: Menu

Albanian (menu), Czech (menu), Danish (menu), Dutch (menu), Flemish (menu), French (menu, slender, slim, small, thin), French Canadian (menu), Italian (menu, menue), Portuguese (menu), Tagalog (menu), Welsh (affect, impress, mark).

Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

What's on the menu this evening sir (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

So what do you two have planned on the menu, a menage-a-trois (The Trip; writing credit: Robert Louis Stevenson; Ron Clements)

You can look at the menu but you just can't eat (NO ONE IS TO BLAME; performing artist: Howard Jones)

My grandma picked up and then she ran the menu (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince)

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand (Werewolves of London; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: LeRoy P. Marinell, Waddy Wachtel and Warren Zevon)

Far too many people spend their lives reading the menu instead of enjoying the banquet. (references; author: unknown)

Menu (1933)

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995)

Menu for Murder (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• European Menu Translator (reference)

• Menu Design : 25 Keys to Profitable Success (Restaurant Manager's Pocket Handbook Series) (reference)

• Random House Webster's Word Menu (reference)

• Still Life With Menu Cookbook (reference)

• The Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Everybodys Menu Builder - Cd-rom (reference)

• Menu Diario (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Vegetarian Menu (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Off the Menu (reference)

• Thornetta Davis Covered Live at the Music Menu (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 8PORT Apex Outlook Console KVM 1USER PS2 for Pc with Oscar Menu (reference)

• Ibico By GBC Clear Laminating Pouches, Menu Size, 3 Mil, 11 1/2in. x 17 1/2in., Pack Of 15 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Marketplace™ Menu Salad Plate (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Planning tomorrow's menu. Credit: Library of Congress.

For Monday's menu. Credit: Library of Congress.

Discussing the menu in the Democratic kitchen. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chief, what sort of a menu for their majesties?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Calendar and menu. Restaurant, Crystal City, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Menu outside restaurant, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Menu in Granville cafe, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Mid-afternoon "lunch" by Long Pond where woodsmen are sluicing. On the menu that day: roast pork and dressing, boiled potatoes, turnips, baked beans, hot cakes, hot biscuits, bread, butt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Steiner Plastics, Oyster Bay. Chockfull of Nuts menu board. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

Eating out can be a challenge as the person with celiac disease learns to scrutinize the menu for foods with gluten and question the waiter or chef about possible hidden sources of gluten. (references)

Business

Viewers will be able to pull up a menu on screen and interact with information that is periodically updated and that which they can view without detracting from their picture. (references)

This means that TV viewers are able to browse web pages for additional information related to the programs, enter chat rooms, download files, and purchase items from the menu bar without disrupting the program. (references)

Medianet offers video-on demand service called “Cinema on Demand” in the Berlin area. As with interactive TV service, the viewing of the film requires a set-top box. The desired film is selected from the menu on the TV screen and the film is played and at the same time saved through a set-top box. The total cost for this service includes DM 40 (approximately $20) per month for the set-top box and DM 18.50 (approximately $10) for the monthly cable charge, a total of DM 58.5 (approximately $30) per month. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

The most popular item in the Core Menu is the Customized Contact List of potential agents, distributors or strategic partners. (references)

Netherlands

The Netherlands boasts a world-class and user-friendly transportation and distribution infrastructure, as well as a full menu of business services. (references)

Argentina

In the case of questions outside the Core Menu, price is dependent on level of detail, availability of information, and time required to conduct the research. (references)

Travel

Philippines

A guest does not order the most expensive items on the menu, unless the host insists otherwise. (references)

Indonesia

Food: Exercise reasonable care in food preparation at home and menu selection while eating out because of questionable sanitation practices. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "menu": cascading menu ♦ computer menu ♦ drop down menu ♦ hierarchical menu ♦ interpretive Menu Processor ♦ menu bar ♦ menu color ♦ menu colour ♦ menu line ♦ pulldown menu ♦ see the menu ♦ set menu. Additional references.

Beginning with "menu": menu-based, menu-driven, menu-like, menu-makers, menu-planning.

Ending with "menu": sub-menu.

Afrikaans

spyskaart. (various references)

Albanian

meny, menu, listë gjellësh. (various references)

Arabic 

‏لائحة الطعام, ‏قائمة الطعام (card), ‏ألوان الطعام المقدمة. (various references)

Basque

menua. (various references)

Bulgarian 

меню (bill of fare). (various references)

Catalan

carta (letter). (various references)

Chinese 

菜单 (Carte), 菜單 , 選單 . (various references)

Croatian

jelovnik. (various references)

Czech

jídelní lístek (bill of fare). (various references)

Danish

spiseseddel, menu. (various references)

Dutch

menu (table d'hôte), kaart (card, filing card, map, slip). (various references)

Esperanto

menuon, menuo, manĝokarto, karto (card, map). (various references)

Estonian

menüü. (various references)

Faeroese

kort (card, cards, map). (various references)

Farsi 

فهرست خوراک , صورت غذا. (various references)

Finnish

ruokalista (bill of fare). (various references)

Flemish

menu. (various references)

French

menu, carte. (various references)

French Canadian

menu. (various references)

Frisian

kaart (card, map). (various references)

Galician

menú. (various references)

German

Speisekarte, Menü (menue, set meal, set menu, table d'hote). (various references)

Greek 

μενού (bill of fare). (various references)

Haitian Creole

meni. (various references)

Hebrew 

תפריט (diet, fare, list). (various references)

Hungarian

étlap (carte, menu card), étrend (commons, course, dietary, regimen). (various references)

Icelandic

matseðilinn (the menu). (various references)

Indonesian

daftar makanan. (various references)

Irish

mbiachlár, cÚrta (card, map), biachlár. (various references)

Italian

menu (menue), lista (bill, calendar, list, register, roll, roster, rota, schedule, strip), carta (card, chart, charter, document, map, paper). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

献立 (program, schedule). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

メニュー , しながき (catalog, inventory), こんだて (program, schedule). (various references)

Korean 

메뉴. (various references)

Luxembourgish

d'wäikaart (the wine menu), d'kaart (the menu). (various references)

Norwegian

spisekart, kart (card, map). (various references)

Papiamen

karta (card, letter, map), karchi (card, map). (various references)

Pig Latin

enumay.(various references)

Polish

jadłospis. (various references)

Portuguese

menu, lista (bill, chart, data-sheet, file, index, list, muster, muster roll, ribbon, roll, roll call, roster, schedule, scroll, tablet, tabulation). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

cardápio. (various references)

Romanian

meniu (card). (various references)

Russian 

меню (bill of fare, carte). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

meni (me, me: to me), jelovnik (carte). (various references)

Sicilian

lista. (various references)

Slovene

jedilni. (various references)

Spanish

menú (bill of fare), tarjeta (card, charging card, map, postcard), plato (course, disc, dish, disk, food, pigeon, plate, plateful, platter), lista (bill, calendar, list, register, roll, roster, rota, schedule, table, tally). (various references)

Sranan

karta (card, map). (various references)

Swahili

menyu. (various references)

Swedish

matsedel (bill of fare, bill-of-fare, carte), meny. (various references)

Tagalog

menu. (various references)

Turkish

menü (bill of fare). (various references)

Turkmen 

menяu (r).Turkmen/English Dictionary 99. (various references)

Ukrainian

меню (card, carte). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thực đơn. (various references)

Zulu

imeniyu (manager), ilimeniyu (manager). (various references)

minutus. (various references)

menu de repas. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "menu": menus. (additional references)

Words ending with "menu": submenu. (additional references)

Words containing "menu": submenus. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Menu" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emni, emnui, enu, mahu, Manau, Manbu, Mandu, mannu, mantu, manuf, manut, manuy, maun, Mbeni, meau, medu, meen, meena, meeney, meenit, meeny, mehn, Mehu, meino, meku, melna, menai, menar, Mendum, mene, menf, meng, menh, meni, menin, menj, menk, Menn, Menna, menne, Menni, menny, Meno, Mensur, mentum, menue, menug, menut, meny, menz, meou, meru, mesna, mesneux, metu, meu, Meung, Meux, mewnni, Mhenni, mincu, Minfu, mino, minou, Miou, miu, mnea, mnei, mno, mnu, mofu, Mongu, Monju, monnum, Monoux, Monu, Monzur, mrna, msne, mundum, muu, muuu, nanu, omanju. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: neum.

-1 letter: emu, men, mun.

-2 letters: em, en, me, mu, ne, nu, um, un.

+1 letter: lumen, menus, neume, neums, numen, rumen, unmet, unmew.

+2 letters: acumen, benumb, busmen, centum, frenum, gunmen, humane, immune, inhume, lumens, lumpen, manque, manure, mentum, minuet, minute, mullen, murein, murine, mutine, neumes, neumic, numbed, number, nutmeg, plenum, pneuma, regnum, rumens, sensum, unhelm, unmade, unmake, unmeet, unmesh, unmews, unseam, untame.

+3 letters: acumens, agendum, albumen, alumine, alumnae, augment, automen, benumbs, bitumen, bushmen, centrum, centums, cerumen, clubmen, commune, consume, decuman, demount, duramen, dustmen, enamour, eudemon, fraenum, frenums, fulmine, hegumen, humaner, hutment, immunes, inhumed, inhumer, inhumes, jejunum, junkmen, jurymen, legumin, lumenal, lumpens, manteau, manured, manurer, manures, maunder, medusan, meouing, mesclun, minuend, minuets, minuses, minuted, minuter, minutes, mistune, mounded, mounted, mounter, mourned, mourner, mueddin, muezzin, mullein, mullens, munched, muncher, munches, mundane, munster, mureins, murines, murrine, mutagen, mutined, mutines, nelumbo, neuroma, noumena, numbers, numbest, numbles, numeral, numeric, nutmeat, nutmegs, omentum, pinetum, plenums, plumpen, pneumas, premune, putamen, remount, rhenium, spumone, sternum, submenu, sunbeam, surname, tegumen, turfmen, umbones, umpteen, unaimed, unarmed, unhelms, unkempt, unmaker, unmakes, unmated, unmeant, unmerry, unmewed, unmined, unmiter, unmitre, unmixed, unmixes, unmoved, unnamed, unrimed, unseams, untamed.