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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

... if you could! You could live at this hotel if you wanted to. Yes, you're right. You need a rest from the ranch and dish-washing." ...

— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland

... went in to dinner. Molly thought everything that was served was delicious, and cooked to the point of perfection; but they did not seem to satisfy Mr. Preston, who apologized to his guests several times for the bad cooking of this dish, or the omission of a particular sauce to that; always referring to bachelor's housekeeping, bachelor's this and bachelor's that, till Molly grew quite impatient at the word. Her father's depression, which was still continuing and ...

— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... to so dazzling a height made Anne's head a trifle giddy. On the strength of it, and all the riches in prospect, she became quite reckless in preparing missis's tea. She put out the best table-linen, and all the silver the house possessed, and she filled a great dish with water-cresses, and had hot buttered scones and a seed-cake and eggs—rather fresh for London—and finally half ...

— How It All Came Round • L. T. Meade

... of that, that am as subject to heat as butter; a man of continual dissolution and thaw: it was a miracle to 'scape suffocation. And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of that, hissing hot, think of ...

— The Merry Wives of Windsor • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]

... ter fetch dish yer pitcher er water, ma'm. Miss 'Ria say she speck you lak fer have 'im ...

— Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches • Joel Chandler Harris

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