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[dish] Pronunciation Key
[dish] Pronunciation Key –noun
–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
—Verb phrase
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| 1. | an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, esp. for holding or serving food. |
| 2. | any container used at table: dirty dishes. |
| 3. | the food served or contained in a dish: The meal consisted of several dishes. |
| 4. | a particular article, type, or preparation of food: Rice is an inexpensive dish. |
| 5. | the quantity held by a dish; dishful: a dish of applesauce. |
| 6. | anything like a dish in form or use. |
| 7. | concavity or the degree of concavity, as of a wheel. |
| 8. | 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. |
| 9. | Slang: Sometimes Offensive. an attractive girl or woman: The receptionist is quite a dish. |
| 10. | Slang. an item of gossip. |
| 11. | to put into or serve in a dish, as food: to dish food onto plates. |
| 12. | to fashion like a dish; make concave. |
| 13. | Slang. to gossip about: They talked all night, dishing their former friends. |
| 14. | Slang. to defeat; frustrate; cheat. |
| 15. | Slang. to talk together informally, esp., to gossip. |
| 16. | dish out, Informal.
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| 17. | 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. |
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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(dĭsh) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. dished, dish·ing, dish·es v. tr.
v. intr. Informal To talk idly, especially to gossip. Phrasal Verb(s): dish out To dispense freely: likes to dish out advice. Idiom(s): dish it out Slang To deal out criticism or abuse. [Middle English, from Old English disc, from Latin discus; see disk.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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dish
O.E. disc "plate, bowl, platter," borrowed c.700 from L. discus "dish, platter, quoit," from Gk. diskos "disk, platter." O.H.G. borrowed the word as tisc "plate," but Ger. tisch now means "table," in common with other later Romantic forms (cf. It. desco, Fr. dais). Meaning "variety of food served" is first recorded c.1450. Verb meaning "to disparage, denigrate" first recorded 1940s; probably from the same notion in fig. dish it out (1934). Dish-cloth (1828) relegated earlier dish-clout (1530) to dialect. Dish-washer is c.1529, of persons, 1867 of machines. Dish-water is attested from 1484. Dishy "very attractive" is attested from 1961.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| dish | |
noun | |
| 1. | 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" |
| 2. | a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner" |
| 3. | the quantity that a dish will hold; "they served me a dish of rice" |
| 4. | a very attractive or seductive looking woman |
| 5. | directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation |
| 6. | 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" [syn: cup of tea] |
verb | |
| 1. | 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" [syn: serve] |
| 2. | make concave; shape like a dish |
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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This
dish
In addition to the idioms beginning with dish, also see do the dishes. Also see under dishwater.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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. --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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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.
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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for eating from (2 Kings 21:13). Judas dipped his hand with a "sop" or piece of bread in the same dish with our Lord, thereby indicating friendly intimacy (Matt. 26:23). The "lordly dish" in Judg. 5:25 was probably the shallow drinking cup, usually of brass. In Judg. 6:38 the same Hebrew word is rendered "bowl." The dishes of the tabernacle were made of pure gold (Ex. 25:29; 37:16).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary 3rd Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
| DISH diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis |
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