dish
Definitions
- A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
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Abbreviation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
- plate, dish (crockery)
- The contents of such a vessel.
- A specific type of prepared food.
- course
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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. countable, in-plural, uncountable
- plate
- A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
- chainring
- A sexually attractive person.
- The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
- A hollow place, as in a field.
- The home plate.
- A trough in which ore is measured.
- That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
- Gossip.
Equivalents
63 more languages
বাংলাথালা
Bosanskiasaščanakićejelojestvinajićelozamisaparabolapijatpjatpladanjplataplatoposlužavnikposudasahanspizasudtabaktalirtanjirtanjurvaszdelazdjelaасзделаздјелајелојествинапладањпосудасаханстравасудтањиртањурчинија
Cymraegllestr
Euskaraplater
Suomiannosastiaastiatlautanenlautasantennilautasellinennamupalaruokaruoka-annosruokalajitarjoiluvatitiskitvadillinenvati
Gaeilgepláta
Hrvatskiašasčanakićejelojestvinajićelozamisaparabolapijatpjatpladanjplataplatoposlužavnikposudasahanspizasudtabaktalirtanjirtanjurvaszdelazdjelaасзделаздјелајелојествинапладањпосудасаханстравасудтањиртањурчинија
Кыргызчатамак
Српскиašasčanakićejelojestvinajićelozamisaparabolapijatpjatpladanjplataplatoposlužavnikposudasahanspizasudtabaktalirtanjirtanjurvaszdelazdjelaасзделаздјелајелојествинапладањпосудасаханстравасудтањиртањурчинија
Sesothosekotlolo
Kiswahilibakuli
Examples
“She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.”
“a dish of stew”
“a vegetable dish”
“this dish is filling and easily made”
“Let's carve him a dish fit for the gods”
“It's your turn⟳ to wash⟳ the dishes.”
“satellite dish”
“radar dish”
“quite a dish”
“Have⟳ you seen the new apothecary? I think⟳ her name⟳ is Sadie. What a dish!”
“the dish of a wheel”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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