dish
Plural: dishes
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"
- a particular item of prepared food
- "she prepared a special dish for dinner"
- the quantity that a dish will hold
- "they served me a dish of rice"
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- "marriage was scarcely his dish"
- 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.
- A specific type of prepared food.
- 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.
- A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
- 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.
- The home plate.
- A trough in which ore is measured.
- That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
- Gossip.
Verb
Verb Forms: dished, dishing, dishes
- To serve food into a dish or other container.
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
- "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M."
- make concave; shape like a dish
- To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- To insult, speak ill of.
- To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
- To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
Examples
- a dish of stew
- a vegetable dish
- After the game, she decided to dish out some snacks for the players.
- It's your turn to wash the dishes.
- quite a dish
- radar dish
- satellite dish
- the dish of a wheel
- this dish is filling and easily made
- to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *dъska, whence Bulgarian дъска́ (dǎská), Polish deska, Russian доска́ (doská)), Russian чан (čan)) from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish disk (“dish; counter”), Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”).
Compare the identical meaning expansion (vessel for food, then also content of such a vessel, then also specific type of food): Bulgarian блю́до (bljúdo), Russian блю́до (bljúdo). For the roundness aspect compare Polish rondel (“pan, saucepan”) (< Latin rotundus (whence also English round)).
Synonyms
bag, beauty, cup of tea, dish aerial, dish antenna, dish out, dish up, dishful, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, saucer, serve, serve up, smasher, stunner, sweetheart, babe, fox, plate, plateful
Scrabble Score: 8
dish: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddish: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dish: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary