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dish

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
dɪʃ

Definitions

  1. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
  2. Abbreviation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.
  3. plate, dish (crockery)
  4. The contents of such a vessel.
  5. A specific type of prepared food.
  6. course
  7. 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.
  8. plate
  9. A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
  10. chainring
  11. A sexually attractive person.
  12. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
  13. A hollow place, as in a field.
  14. The home plate.
  15. A trough in which ore is measured.
  16. That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
  17. Gossip.

Equivalents

63 more languages
Azərbaycan diliboşqabtaamxörəkyemək
বাংলাথালা
Cymraegllestr
Ελληνικάπιάταπιάτο
Esperantopladotelero
Euskaraplater
Gaeilgepláta
Gàidhligmiassoitheach
Íslenskadiskurréttur
ភាសាខ្មែរចានមុខម្ហូបអាហារ
Кыргызчатамак
Македонскијадењечинија
Монголтавагхоол
Bahasa Melayumangkukpinggansajiansantapan
Nederlandsbordgerechtstoottaloorvaat
Românăfarfurievas
Slovenčinajedlotanier
Slovenščinakrožnikposoda
Sesothosekotlolo
Kiswahilibakuli
Türkmençetabaktarelka
O'zbekchaovqattaom
Tiếng Việtcháođỉamónmón ăn

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.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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