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Chinese menu

Chinese menu noun: a set of choices from which the user or customer makes multiple selections, specifically one or more choices from each of two or more distinct categories.

Noun

Chinese menu (plural Chinese menus)

  1. A set of choices from which the user or customer makes multiple selections, specifically one or more choices from each of two or more distinct categories.
    • Each camper picked from a Chinese menu of available activities: one from the various field sports; one from the pool activities list; and two from a wide selection of arts and crafts classes.
    • Throughout American higher education, Western Civilization courses tempered electives and various Chinese menus of distribution requirements.1994, Philip G. Altbach, Robert Oliver Berdahl, Patricia J. Gumport, Higher education in American society
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Chinese, menu.

Examples of Chinese menu in a sentence

  • Many people who consider themselves to be liberally educated have undertaken study in half a dozen fields from a Chinese menu of subjects.1997, Samuel M. Natale, Mark B. Fenton, Business Education and Training, page 92:
  • Lewis (Scooter) Libby, reportedly tried to force a “Chinese menu” of even wilder assertions into the first draft of the UN speech.2011, Kenneth O'Reilly, Holy Cow 2000: The Strange Election of George W. Bush:

Forms of Chinese menu

pluralChinese menus

Origin of Chinese menu

From the practice of some Chinese restaurants which, for a fixed price, instruct the customer to make selections such as “one from Column A, two from Column B, one from Column C”, where the columns may contain, for example, a selection of soups, appetizers, and entrees.

Questions about Chinese menu

What does Chinese menu mean?
Chinese menu means a set of choices from which the user or customer makes multiple selections, specifically one or more choices from each of two or more distinct categories.
How do you use Chinese menu in a sentence?
Many people who consider themselves to be liberally educated have undertaken study in half a dozen fields from a Chinese menu of subjects.
What part of speech is Chinese menu?
Chinese menu is a noun.
What is the plural of Chinese menu?
The plural of Chinese menu is Chinese menus.

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