dish

UK /dɪʃ/ US /dɪʃ/
noun 6verb 5

Definitions

noun

1

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.

2

The contents of such a vessel.

a dish of stew

3

A specific type of prepared food.

a vegetable dish

this dish is filling and easily made

4

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.

satellite dish

radar dish

verb

1

To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.

2

To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.

3

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; […]

4

To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.

to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes

5

To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

Have the Tories "dished the Whigs"?

noun

1

Abbreviation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.

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