dish
/dɪʃ/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms dishes dishing dished
- noun A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- noun The contents of such a vessel. “a dish of stew”
- noun (metonymic) A specific type of prepared food. “a vegetable dish”
- noun (in the plural) 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. “It's your turn to wash the dishes.”
- noun (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl. “satellite dish”
- noun (informal, dated, originally US) Something that fits someone's tastes, interests, or abilities. “Going to the club is not my dish.”
- noun (slang) A sexually attractive person. “quite a dish”
- noun (dated) The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity. “the dish of a wheel”
- verb (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- verb (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- verb (slang) To insult, speak ill of.
- verb (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish. “to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes”
- verb (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
- proper noun A town in Denton County, Texas, United States.
Synonyms
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Etymology
From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *dъska, whence Bulgarian дъска́ (dăská), Polish deska, Russian доска́ (doská)), Russian чан (čan)) from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos.
Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”).
Compare the identical meaning expansion (vessel for food, then also content of such a vessel, then also specific type of food): Bulgarian блю́до (bljúdo), Russian блю́до (bljúdo). For the roundness aspect, compare Polish rondel (“pan, saucepan”) (< Latin rotundus (whence also English round)), Slovene krožnik < krog. Also compare typologically Proto-Slavic *misъka << Latin mēnsa; Ancient Greek πίναξ (pínax) (several meanings).
Originally known as Clark. The name was changed in November 2005 when the town accepted an offer to rename itself to DISH as part of a commercial agreement with the satellite television company Dish Network.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
- noun The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods." Shak.
- verb To put in a dish, ready for the table.
- verb To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
Etymology [AS. disc, L. discus dish, disc, quoit, fr. Gr. Dais, Desk, Disc, Discus.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “dish”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details