dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭsh
ipa: /dɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: dishes
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)). Also compare typologically Proto-Slavic *misъka << Latin mēnsa; Ancient Greek πίναξ (pínax) (several meanings).
Senses: examples: text: She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges v:25:
synonyms: plate
glosses: A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
examples: text: a dish of stew
synonyms: dishful
plate
plateful
glosses: The contents of such a vessel.
examples: text: a vegetable dish
text: this dish is filling and easily made
text: Let's carve him a dish fit for the gods
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: A specific type of prepared food.
examples: text: It's your turn to wash the dishes.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: satellite dish
text: radar dish
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
examples: text: quite a dish
text: Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish!
ref: 1993, Westwood Studios, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, Virgin Games:
synonyms: babe
fox
glosses: A sexually attractive person.
examples: text: the dish of a wheel
glosses: The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
examples: text: As I topped the ridge I missed my first shot at a sharptail that flushed from a grassy dish.
ref: 1980, Nebraskaland:
text: He and Stratemeier raced across the flats and dropped into the canyon, climbed swiftly through it and came out at the topside trail , which went straight south through the timber until it dropped into a small grassy dish surrounded by rock peaks.
ref: 1987 02, Brian Garfield, The Arizonans, Bantam, →ISBN:
text: 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.
ref: 2006 September 14, Richard Holmes, Martin Marix Evans, A Guide to Battles: Decisive Conflicts in History, OUP Oxford, →ISBN:
glosses: A hollow place, as in a field.
examples: text: He said, "I don't like your chances at the dish [home plate] tonight."
ref: 2008, Paul Byrd, Free Byrd: The Power of a Liberated Life, page 4:
text: At the plate, Graham pounded the dish three times, just like Bubbles did whenever he was up, […]
ref: 2009, Loren Long, Phil Bildner, Magic in the Outfield, page 40:
text: Also, if you end up getting to the baseball, your pitcher needs to be covering home plate, which pitchers occasionally forget to do. However, if the ball stays near the dish and you have a pitcher on the mound who isn't a space-case, you've got a good shot to get the runner out.
ref: 2014, Conor Kelley, The Catcher's Handbook, page 87:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The home plate.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A trough in which ore is measured.
topics: business
mining
glosses: That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1989 December 24, Abe Rybeck, “Liberation Without Permission, Pleasure Without Apology”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 24, page 5:
glosses: Gossip.
Derived terms: 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
dished
dish-face
dish-faced
dishless
dishlicker
dishlike
dish liquid
dishmaker
dishmaking
dishmop
dishowner
dishpan
dish pig
dish pit
dish rack
dishrack
dishrag
dish soap
dish stand
dishtowel
dish towel
dish TV
dishware
dish washer
dishwasher
dishwashing
dishwater
dishy
do the dishes
fluorodish
hotdish
kidney dish
lickdish
lick-dish
made dish
main dish
microdish
minidish
monkey dish
multidish
oven dish
petri dish
Petri dish
piedish
pie-dish beetle
pizza dish
recipe dish
revenge is a dish best served cold
satellite dish
saucedish
serving dish
side dish
sidedish
snuff-dish
soap dish
soapdish
tolldish
tundish
two-dish rice
washdish