dish
nounEtymology
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, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and 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)), Slovene krožnik < krog. Also compare typologically Proto-Slavic *misъka << Latin mēnsa; Ancient Greek πίναξ (pínax) (several meanings).
Definitions
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region…
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
The contents of such a vessel.
- a dish of stew
A specific type of prepared food.
- a vegetable dish
- this dish is filling and easily made
- Let's carve him a dish fit for the gods
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Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed…
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.
- It's your turn to wash the dishes.
A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
- satellite dish
- radar dish
Something that fits someone's tastes, interests, or abilities.
- Going to the club is not my dish.
- Literacy is not every man’s dish. A teacher trying to persuade Arab men in North Africa to let their wives learn to read so that they can write letters was pointedly asked by one husband: “To whom?”
A sexually attractive person.
- quite a dish
- Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish!
The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
- the dish of a wheel
A hollow place, as in a field.
- As I topped the ridge I missed my first shot at a sharptail that flushed from a grassy dish.
- Daylight revealed that the so-called summit was near the edge of a shallow, stony dish, which terminated abruptly in steep slopes, and actually offered poor fields of fire.
The home plate.
- He said, "I don't like your chances at the dish [home plate] tonight."
- At the plate, Graham pounded the dish three times, just like Bubbles did whenever he was up, […]
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.
To put in a dish or dishes
To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
To gossip
To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
To insult, speak ill of.
- In the car with you I heard Joe's voice ― complaining about how invisible black people still are to whites; praising artists we admire; dishing someone's bad taste; planning future adventures; […]
To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
- to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
To frustrate
To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
- Have the Tories "dished the Whigs"?
Abbreviation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.
The neighborhood
- neighborplate
Derived
assay dish, assay-dish, beauty dish, big ugly dish, butter dish, casserole dish, chafing dish, clack dish, cold dish, covered-dish, covered dish supper, deep dish, deep-dish, deep-dish pizza, dish aerial, dish antenna, dish bitch, dishboard, dish-cloth, dish cloth, dishcloth, dishclout, dish detergent, dish dog, dish drainer, dish-face, dish-faced, dishless, dishlicker, dishlike, dish liquid, dishmaker, dishmaking, dishmop, dishowner, dishpan, dish pig, dish pit, dish rack, dishrack · +48 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at dish. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at dish. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at dish
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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