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Dish   /dɪʃ/   Listen
Dish

noun
1.
A piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food.
2.
A particular item of prepared food.
3.
The quantity that a dish will hold.  Synonym: dishful.
4.
A very attractive or seductive looking woman.  Synonyms: beauty, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart.
5.
Directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation.  Synonyms: dish aerial, dish antenna, saucer.
6.
An activity that you like or at which you are superior.  Synonyms: bag, cup of tea.  "His bag now is learning to play golf" , "Marriage was scarcely his dish"
verb
(past & past part. dished; pres. part. dishing)
1.
Provide (usually but not necessarily food).  Synonyms: dish out, dish up, serve, serve up.  "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M." , "The entertainers served up a lively show"
2.
Make concave; shape like a dish.



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"Dish" Quotes from Famous Books



... the cook will be glad to do the cooking if you tell her how; be careful to tell her, if it is eaten and enjoyed; and never let her know if it is rejected. Get rid of it upstairs by some contrivance, and be sure not to order that dish again. In many cases of course the cook will know all the little dishes the sick one will fancy, and you will have very little to do with her. Such instances are somewhat rare, and very delightful when ...
— Making Good On Private Duty • Harriet Camp Lounsbery

... given by the bringing in of a bull's head, which was placed before the young Earl. Mr. Burton considers this incident as so picturesque as to be merely a romantic addition; but no symbol was too boldly picturesque for the time. When this fatal dish appeared the two young Douglases seem at once to have perceived their danger. They started from the table, and for one despairing moment looked wildly round them for some way of escape. The stir and commotion as that tragic company started to their feet, the vain shout for help, the clash of ...
— Royal Edinburgh - Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets • Margaret Oliphant

... for this struggling of two suitors for a girl—he puna rua. As for their "great respect" for women, they do not allow them to eat with the men. A chief, says Angas (II., 110), "will sometimes permit his favorite wife to eat with him, though not out of the same dish." Ellis relates (III., 253) that New Zealanders are "addicted to the greatest vices that stain the human character—treachery, cannibalism, infanticide, and murder." The women caught in battle, as well as the men, were, he says, ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... places went Buttons and Dick in their study of human nature. They sat at the table. A huge dish of macaroni was served up. Fifty guests stopped to look at the new-comers. The waiters winked at the customers of the house, and thrust their ...
— The Dodge Club - or, Italy in 1859 • James De Mille

... the word "battle," in the second line upon which he was bestowing what he meant to be a shake, when, as if the word suggested it, it seemed the signal for a general engagement. Decanters, glasses, jugs, candlesticks,—aye, and the money-dish, flew right and left—all originally intended, it is ture, for the head of the luckless adjutant, but as they now and then missed their aim, and came in contact with the "wrong man," invariably provoked retaliation, and in a very few ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)


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