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DISH
dish
(noun) a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food; “we gave them a set of dishes for a wedding present”
dish, dish aerial, dish antenna, saucer
(noun) directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
dish
(noun) a particular item of prepared food; “she prepared a special dish for dinner”
smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish
(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman
dish, dishful
(noun) the quantity that a dish will hold; “they served me a dish of rice”
dish
(verb) make concave; shape like a dish
serve, serve up, dish out, dish up, dish
(verb) provide (usually but not necessarily food); “We serve meals for the homeless”; “She dished out the soup at 8 P.M.”; “The entertainers served up a lively show”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
DISH (uncountable)
Abbreviation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.
Anagrams
• HIDs, HSDI, SHID, shid
Etymology
Noun
dish (plural dishes)
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
The contents of such a vessel.
(metonym) A specific type of prepared food.
(in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
(telecommunication) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
(slang) A sexually attractive person.
The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
A hollow place, as in a field.
(mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
(mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
(slang) Gossip
Synonyms
• (vessel): plate
• (contents): dishful, plate, plateful
• (sexually attractive person): babe, fox
Verb
dish (third-person singular simple present dishes, present participle dishing, simple past and past participle dished)
(transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
(informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
(transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
(slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
Anagrams
• HIDs, HSDI, SHID, shid
Source: Wiktionary
Dish, n. Etym: [AS. disc, L. discus dish, disc, quoit, fr. Gr. Dais, Desk, Disc, Discus.]
1. A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table. She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Judg. v. 25.
2. The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods." Shak. Home-home dishes that drive one from home. Hood.
3. The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
4. A hollow place, as in a field. Ogilvie.
5. (Mining) (a) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured. (b) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
Dish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dished; p. pr. & vb. n. Dishing.]
1. To put in a dish, ready for the table.
2. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
3. To frustrate; to beat; to ruin. [Low] To dish out.
1. To serve out of a dish; to distribute in portions at table.
2. (Arch.) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.
– To dish up, to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc., and put in dishes to be served at table.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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