dish

[dish]

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noun

an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.

any container used at table: dirty dishes.

the food served or contained in a dish: The meal consisted of several dishes.

a particular article, type, or preparation of food: Rice is an inexpensive dish.

the quantity held by a dish; dishful: a dish of applesauce.

anything like a dish in form or use.

concavity or the degree of concavity, as of a wheel.

Also called dish antenna. a concave, dish-shaped reflector serving to focus electromagnetic energy as part of a transmitter or receiver of radio, television, or microwave signals.

Slang. an attractive person, especially a female: His wife is quite a dish.

Slang. an item of gossip.

verb (used with object)

to put into or serve in a dish, as food: to dish food onto plates.

to fashion like a dish; make concave.

Slang. to gossip about: They talked all night, dishing their former friends.

Slang. to defeat; frustrate; cheat.

verb (used without object)

Slang. to talk together informally, especially, to gossip.

Verb Phrases

dish out, Informal.

to serve (food) from a serving dish, pot, etc.
to deal out; distribute: She dished out our pay in silver dollars.

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Idioms

dish it out, Informal. to dispense abusive language, punishment, or praise, enthusiastic approval, etc.: When it comes to flattery, he can really dish it out.

Origin of dish

before 900; Middle English; Old English disc dish, plate, bowl (akin to German Tisch table) < Latin discus dish, discus

Related formsun·der·dish, noun

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Dishes are listed by their Finnish names with English subtitles.
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Dishes here are prepared with locally picked mushrooms, herbs, trout, and moles.
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But Leslie was out of the house and off the moment she had finished washing the dishes.
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Emma dried her dishes as carefully as she had washed them and stacked them in the cupboard.
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The glass of his seaman's clock on the wall was broken, and dishes were shivered to bits.
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In Saugor the food served consists only of rice and pulse without vegetables or other dishes.
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British Dictionary definitions for dishes

dish

noun

a container used for holding or serving food, esp an open shallow container of pottery, glass, etc

the food that is served or contained in a dish

a particular article or preparation of fooda local fish dish

Also called: dishful the amount contained in a dish

something resembling a dish, esp in shape

a concavity or depression

short for dish aerial, satellite dish aerial

informal an attractive person

informal something that one particularly enjoys or excels in

verb (tr)

to put into a dish

to make hollow or concave

British informal to ruin or spoilhe dished his chances of getting the job

Word Origin for dish

Old English disc, from Latin discus quoit, see disc

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Word Origin and History for dishes

dish

Old English disc "plate, bowl, platter," from Latin discus "dish, platter, quoit," from Greek diskos "disk, platter" (see disk). A common West Germanic borrowing; Old High German borrowed the word as tisc "plate," but German tisch now means "table," in common with other later Romanic forms (e.g. Italian desco, French dais). Meaning "particular variety of food served" is first recorded mid-15c. Meaning "what one likes" is c.1900; that of "attractive woman" is 1920s. Meaning "concave reflector or antenna" attested from 1948.

dish

"to serve food," late 14c., from dish (n.). Meaning "to disparage, denigrate" first recorded 1940s; probably from the same notion in figurative dish it out "administer punishment" (1934). Related: Dished; dishing.

Idioms and Phrases with dishes

dish

In addition to the idioms beginning with dish

dish out
dish the dirt

also see:

do the dishes

Also see underdishwater.

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