dish
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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).
Inflected forms:
form: dishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
gloss: The contents of such a vessel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a dish of stew
gloss: A specific type of prepared food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
metonymically
uncountable
examples: a vegetable dish
this dish is filling and easily made
Let's carve him a dish fit for the gods
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: It's your turn to wash the dishes.
gloss: A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: satellite dish
radar dish
gloss: Something that fits someone's tastes, interests, or abilities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
informal
uncountable
examples: Going to the club is not my dish.
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?”
gloss: A sexually attractive person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: quite a dish
Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish!
gloss: The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: the dish of a wheel
gloss: A hollow place, as in a field.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As I topped the ridge I missed my first shot at a sharptail that flushed from a grassy dish.
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.
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.
gloss: The home plate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: He said, "I don't like your chances at the dish [home plate] tonight."
At the plate, Graham pounded the dish three times, just like Bubbles did whenever he was up, […]
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.
gloss: A trough in which ore is measured.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: Gossip.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
pos: verb
tags: informal
slang
gloss: To insult, speak ill of.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: 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; […]
gloss: To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
gloss: To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
transitive
examples: Have the Tories "dished the Whigs"?
Related words: plate
Derived words: 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
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
dished
dish off
dish out
dish the dirt
dish up
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