Dish

Pronunciation

• enPR: dÄ­sh, IPA: /dɪʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃ

Origin

From Old English disc from West Proto-Germanic *diskaz, cognate with Latin discus. Cognate with Dutch disch ("table"), German Tisch ("table").

Full definition of dish

Noun

1. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
• Bible, Judges v. 25She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
2. The contents of such a vessel.a dish of stew
3. A specific type of prepared food.a vegetable dishthis dish is filling and easily made
• Shakespearea dish fit for the gods
4. (in the plural) 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.
5. a type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl, as in satellite dish, radar dish
6. (slang) A sexually attractive person.
7. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.the dish of a wheel
8. A hollow place, as in a field.
9. (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
10. (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

Synonyms

• (vessel) plate
• (contents) dishful, plate, plateful
• (sexually attractive person) babe, fox

Derived terms

Verb

1. (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.The restaurant dished up a delicious Italian brunch.
2. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
3. (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
4. (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.

Derived terms

• dish out
• dish up

Anagrams

• HSDI
• shid, SHID