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dish

noun

1 dish

A piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food.

Roget 298: eating etc. v.; deglutition, gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination; gluttony etc. 957.    [eating specific foods] ... show more

Dutch: taloor, gerecht, bord

2 dish

A particular item of prepared food.

Dutch: gerecht, schotel
Polish: potrawa

3 dish

The quantity that a dish will hold:
— They served me a dish of rice.

synonym: dishful.

4 dish

A very attractive or seductive looking woman.

synonyms: beauty, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart.

Dutch: beauty, bout, moot, schone, schoonheid, seksbom
Polish: laska, laseczka, lasencja, sztuka

5 dish

Directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation.

synonyms: dish aerial, dish antenna, saucer.

Roget 191: receptacle; inclosure etc. 232; recipient, receiver, reservatory.    compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, ... show more

Dutch: paraboolantenne, satellietschotel, schotel, schotelantenne

6 dish

An activity that you like or at which you are superior:
— Marriage was scarcely his dish.

synonyms: bag, cup of tea.

Dutch: kopje thee

verb

1 dish

Provide (usually but not necessarily food):
— She dished out the soup at 8 P.M..

synonyms: dish out, dish up, serve, serve up.

Roget 162: be destroyed &c.; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, ... show more

Dutch: dienen, dissen, opdienen, opdissen, opdoen, serveren, voorschotelen, voorzetten

2 dish

Make concave; shape like a dish.


Moby thesaurus: KO, antepast, autoclave, babble, baffle, bail, balk, billy, blast, boil, bowl, brave, broil, bucket, cackle, caddy, cage, can, canister, casserole ... show more.

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