Word: dish Part of Speech: noun 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, 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). Pronunciation: /dɪʃ/ 1. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 2. The contents of such a vessel. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a dish of stew 3. A specific type of prepared food. Labels: countable, metonymically, uncountable Example: a vegetable dish Example: 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. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: It's your turn to wash the dishes. 5. A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: satellite dish Example: radar dish 6. Something that fits someone's tastes, interests, or abilities. Labels: countable, dated, informal, uncountable Example: Going to the club is not my dish. Example: 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?” 7. A sexually attractive person. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: quite a dish Example: Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish! 8. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: the dish of a wheel 9. A hollow place, as in a field. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As I topped the ridge I missed my first shot at a sharptail that flushed from a grassy dish. Example: 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. 10. The home plate. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: He said, "I don't like your chances at the dish [home plate] tonight." Example: At the plate, Graham pounded the dish three times, just like Bubbles did whenever he was up, […] 11. A trough in which ore is measured. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 12. That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 13. Gossip. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: 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.