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dish

[dish]

–noun

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.

–verb (used with object)

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.

–verb (used without object)

15.	Slang. to talk together informally, esp., to gossip.

—Verb phrase

16.

dish out, Informal.

a.	to serve (food) from a serving dish, pot, etc.

b.	to deal out; distribute: She dished out our pay in silver dollars.

—Idiom

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.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE disc dish, plate, bowl (akin to G Tisch table) < L discus dish, discus

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dish (dĭsh)

1. An open, generally shallow concave container for holding, cooking, or serving food.
2. dishes The containers and often the utensils used when eating: took out the dishes and silverware; washed the dishes.
3. A shallow concave container used for purposes other than eating: an evaporating dish.
4. The food served or contained in a dish: a dish of ice cream.
5. A particular variety or preparation of food: Sushi is a Japanese dish.
6. A depression similar to that in a shallow concave container for food.
7. The degree of concavity in such a depression.
The amount that a dish can hold.
1. The food served or contained in a dish: a dish of ice cream.
2. A particular variety or preparation of food: Sushi is a Japanese dish.
3. A depression similar to that in a shallow concave container for food.
4. The degree of concavity in such a depression.
1. A depression similar to that in a shallow concave container for food.
2. The degree of concavity in such a depression.
Electronics A dish antenna.
Slang A good-looking person, especially an attractive woman.
Informal Idle talk; gossip: "plenty of dish about her tattoos, her plastic surgeries, and her ever-younger inamorati" (Louise Kennedy).

v. dished, dish·ing, dish·es

v. tr.

To serve (food) in or as if in a dish: dished up the stew.
To present: dished up an excellent entertainment.
To hollow out; make concave.
Informal To gossip about.
Chiefly British Slang To ruin, foil, or defeat.

v. intr. Informal
To talk idly, especially to gossip.
Phrasal Verb(s):
dish outTo 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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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. --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

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.

Language Translation for : dish

Spanish: plato,

German: die Schüssel,

Japanese: 皿

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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.

Dish

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).

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dish

In addition to the idioms beginning with dish, also see do the dishes. Also see under dishwater.

DISH
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