Meaning of dish | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

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