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Dish

//dɪʃ// noun, verb, slang

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Noun

1
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. countable, uncountable
"She brought forth butter in a lordly dish."
2
Abbreviation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
3
an activity that you like or at which you are superior wordnet
4
The contents of such a vessel. countable, uncountable
"a dish of stew"
5
a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food wordnet

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6
A specific type of prepared food. countable, metonymically, uncountable
"a vegetable dish"
7
directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation wordnet
8
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. countable, in-plural, uncountable
"It's your turn to wash the dishes."
9
a particular item of prepared food wordnet
10
A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl. countable, uncountable
"satellite dish"
11
a very attractive or seductive looking woman wordnet
12
A sexually attractive person. countable, slang, uncountable
"quite a dish"
13
the quantity that a dish will hold wordnet
14
The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity. countable, dated, uncountable
"the dish of a wheel"
15
A hollow place, as in a field. countable, uncountable
"As I topped the ridge I missed my first shot at a sharptail that flushed from a grassy dish."
16
The home plate. countable, slang, uncountable
"He said, "I don't like your chances at the dish [home plate] tonight.""
17
A trough in which ore is measured. archaic, countable, uncountable
18
That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor. archaic, countable, uncountable
19
Gossip. slang, uncountable
"We've been a very lucky community: We've had GCN to collect our deep dish and write it up as political discourse. GCN is not just another clipboard of polite press releases. GCN is the sticky questions, the sweet moments, and the dirty stories that make up our lives."

Verb

1
To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food. transitive
2
make concave; shape like a dish wordnet
3
To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another. informal, slang
4
provide (usually but not necessarily food) wordnet
5
To insult, speak ill of. slang
"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; […]"

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6
To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish. transitive
"to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes"
7
To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat. archaic, slang, transitive
"Have the Tories "dished the Whigs"?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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)). Also compare typologically Proto-Slavic *misъka << Latin mēnsa; Ancient Greek πίναξ (pínax) (several meanings).

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