dish
♦ dish /d'ɪʃ/ (dishes dishing dished)
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A dish is a shallow container with a wide uncovered top. You eat and serve food from dishes and cook food in them.
...plastic bowls and dishes...
2 [N-COUNT] usu N of n
The contents of a dish can be referred to as a dish of something.
Nicholas ate a dish of spaghetti.
3 [N-COUNT]
Food that is prepared in a particular style or combination can be referred to as a dish.
There are plenty of vegetarian dishes to choose from.
4 [N-PLURAL]
All the objects that have been used to cook, serve, and eat a meal can be referred to as the dishes.
He'd cooked dinner and washed the dishes.
5 [N-COUNT] usu with supp
You can use dish to refer to anything that is round and hollow in shape with a wide uncovered top.
...a dish used to receive satellite broadcasts.
6
see also satellite dish, side dish
7 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you do the dishes, you wash the dishes.
I hate doing the dishes.
8
to dish the dirt: see dirtdish out
1 [PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), V n P
If you dish out something, you distribute it among a number of people. (INFORMAL)
Doctors, not pharmacists, are responsible for dishing out drugs...
The council wants to dish the money out to specific projects.
2 [PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), also V n P
If someone dishes out criticism or punishment, they give it to someone. (INFORMAL)
Linzi is well qualified to dish out advice.
= dish up
3 [PHRASAL VERB] V P n
If you dish out food, you serve it to people at the beginning of each course of a meal. (INFORMAL)
Here in the dining hall the cooks dish out chicken à la king.dish tow|el (dish towels)
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A dish towel is a cloth used to dry dishes after they have been washed. (AM; in BRIT, use tea towel)dish up
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), V P, also V n P
If you dish up food, you serve it. (INFORMAL)
They dished up a superb meal...
I'll dish up and you can grate the Parmesan.sat|el|lite dish (satellite dishes)
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A satellite dish is a piece of equipment which people need to have on their house in order to receive satellite television.side dish (side dishes)
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A side dish is an amount of a particular food that is served at the same time as the main dish.
These mushrooms would make a delicious side dish.
1 [N-COUNT]
A dish is a shallow container with a wide uncovered top. You eat and serve food from dishes and cook food in them.
...plastic bowls and dishes...
2 [N-COUNT] usu N of n
The contents of a dish can be referred to as a dish of something.
Nicholas ate a dish of spaghetti.
3 [N-COUNT]
Food that is prepared in a particular style or combination can be referred to as a dish.
There are plenty of vegetarian dishes to choose from.
4 [N-PLURAL]
All the objects that have been used to cook, serve, and eat a meal can be referred to as the dishes.
He'd cooked dinner and washed the dishes.
5 [N-COUNT] usu with supp
You can use dish to refer to anything that is round and hollow in shape with a wide uncovered top.
...a dish used to receive satellite broadcasts.
6
see also satellite dish, side dish
7 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you do the dishes, you wash the dishes.
I hate doing the dishes.
8
to dish the dirt: see dirtdish out
1 [PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), V n P
If you dish out something, you distribute it among a number of people. (INFORMAL)
Doctors, not pharmacists, are responsible for dishing out drugs...
The council wants to dish the money out to specific projects.
2 [PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), also V n P
If someone dishes out criticism or punishment, they give it to someone. (INFORMAL)
Linzi is well qualified to dish out advice.
= dish up
3 [PHRASAL VERB] V P n
If you dish out food, you serve it to people at the beginning of each course of a meal. (INFORMAL)
Here in the dining hall the cooks dish out chicken à la king.dish tow|el (dish towels)
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A dish towel is a cloth used to dry dishes after they have been washed. (AM; in BRIT, use tea towel)dish up
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), V P, also V n P
If you dish up food, you serve it. (INFORMAL)
They dished up a superb meal...
I'll dish up and you can grate the Parmesan.sat|el|lite dish (satellite dishes)
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A satellite dish is a piece of equipment which people need to have on their house in order to receive satellite television.side dish (side dishes)
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A side dish is an amount of a particular food that is served at the same time as the main dish.
These mushrooms would make a delicious side dish.