dish
English
Etymology
From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”), from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos.
Pronunciation
- enPR: dĭsh, IPA(key): /dɪʃ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪʃ
Noun
dish (countable and uncountable, plural dishes)
- A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- Synonym: plate
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges v:25:
- She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
- The contents of such a vessel.
- (metonymically) A specific type of prepared food.
- a vegetable dish
- this dish is filling and easily made
- 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]:
- Let's carve him a dish fit for the gods
- (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.
- (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
- satellite dish
- radar dish
- (slang) A sexually attractive person.
- 1993, Westwood Studios, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, Virgin Games:
- Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish!
- The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
- the dish of a wheel
- A hollow place, as in a field.
- (baseball, slang) The home plate.
- 2008, Paul Byrd, Free Byrd: The Power of a Liberated Life, page 4:
- He said, "I don't like your chances at the dish [home plate] tonight."
- 2009, Loren Long, Phil Bildner, Magic in the Outfield, page 40:
- At the plate, Graham pounded the dish three times, just like Bubbles did whenever he was up, […]
- 2014, Conor Kelley, The Catcher's Handbook, page 87:
- 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.
- (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
- (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
- (slang, uncountable) 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
- dishcloth
- dish-cloth
- dish cloth
- dishclout
- dish detergent
- dish dog
- dished
- dish-face
- dish-faced
- dish liquid
- dishowner
- dish pig
- dish pit
- dish rack
- dish soap
- dish stand
- dish towel
- dish TV
- dish washer
- dishy
- do the dishes
- kidney dish
- lick-dish
- made dish
- main dish
- minidish
- monkey dish
- oven dish
- petri dish
- Petri dish
- pizza dish
- recipe dish
- revenge is a dish best served cold
- satellite dish
- serving dish
- side dish
- snuff-dish
- soap dish
- two-dish rice
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: dis
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Verb
dish (third-person singular simple present dishes, present participle dishing, simple past and past participle dished)
- (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
- to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
- (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
Derived terms
See also
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)