dish

[Dish]

A dish is something on which you serve, cook, or eat food. You need an extra large dish to make a casserole big enough to feed your entire extended family.

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A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

Noun
an activity that you like or at which you are superior; "chemistry is not my cup of tea"; "his bag now is learning to play golf"; "marriage was scarcely his 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"

Noun
directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

Noun
a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner"

Noun
a very attractive or seductive looking woman

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Noun
the quantity that a dish will hold; "they served me a dish of rice"

Verb
make concave; shape like a 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"


n.
A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

n.
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."

n.
The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

n.
A hollow place, as in a field.

n.
A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.

n.
That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

v. t.
To put in a dish, ready for the table.

v. t.
To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.

v. t.
To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.


Dish

Dish , n. [AS. disc, L. discus dish, disc, quoit, fr. Gr. quoit, fr. to throw. Cf. 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.
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.
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

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.

A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

To put in a dish, ready for the table.

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Usage Examples

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.

I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.

There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.

I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.

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Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

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