Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Chinese, menu.
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History
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.
