Dish

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An open, generally shallow concave container for holding, cooking, or serving food.
  • noun. The containers and often the utensils used when eating.
  • noun. A shallow concave container used for purposes other than eating.
  • noun. The amount that a dish can hold.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The food served or contained in a dish.
  • noun. A particular variety or preparation of food.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A depression similar to that in a shallow concave container for food.
  • noun. The degree of concavity in such a depression.
  • noun. A dish antenna.
  • noun. A good-looking person, especially an attractive woman.
  • noun. Idle talk; gossip.
  • intransitive verb. To serve (food) in or as if in a dish.
  • intransitive verb. To present.
  • intransitive verb. To hollow out; make concave.
  • intransitive verb. To gossip about.
  • intransitive verb. To ruin, foil, or defeat.
  • intransitive verb. To talk idly, especially to gossip.
  • phrasal verb. To dispense freely.
  • idiom. (dish it out) To deal out criticism or abuse.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To put in a dish or dishes, as food; serve at table: often with up: as, to dish up the dinner.
  • To cause to resemble a dish; make concave.
  • To use up, as if by serving on a dish, or making a meal of; frustrate or disappoint; damage; ruin; cheat.
  • To push or strike with the horns.
  • To be concave or have a form resembling that of a dish: as, the wheel or the ground dishes. See I., 2.
  • noun. In mining: A small rough vessel used in diamond and gold washing: sometimes used attributively: as, he obtained good dish prospects after crudely crushing up the quartz.
  • noun. Any rimmed and concave or hollow vessel, of earthenware, porcelain, glass, metal, or wood, used to contain food for consumption at meals.
  • noun. The food or drink served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food served at table; a supply for a meal: as, a dish of veal or venison; a cold dish.
  • noun. In Eng. mining: A rectangular box about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.
  • noun. Formerly, in Cornwall, a measure holding one gallon, used for tin ore dressed ready for the smelter.
  • noun. A discus.
  • noun. The state of being concave or like a dish; concavity: as, the dish of a wheel.
  • To form with a concave center, as a disk, a wheel, a running track, or a racing-track.
  • In trotting, to throw the feet outward, moving them forward with a circular motion instead of in a straight line. Also paddle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To put in a dish, ready for the table.
  • transitive verb. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
  • transitive verb. To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
  • transitive verb. to talk about (a person) in a disparaging manner; to gossip about (a person).
  • transitive verb. to dispense freely; -- also used figuratively.
  • transitive verb. to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc., and put in dishes to be served at table.
  • noun. A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
  • noun. The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food, especially prepared food
  • noun. The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
  • noun. A hollow place, as in a field.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.
  • noun. That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
  • noun. anything with a discoid and concave shape, like that of a dish.
  • Word Usage
    "September 17, 2008 5: 41 AM teeny said ... the photo at Logia tis Ploris of the urchin dish is the best photo you've taken to date. color, highlight on the dish, fork in the background, it's excellent."
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    Fish  Frisch  Gish  Ish  Kish  
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    basket  bottle  bowl  box  cake  
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    KO  Lulu  antepast  autoclave  babble  
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    dished  dishes  dishing