dish

  • 31dish*/*/ — [dɪʃ] noun I 1) [C] a container similar to a plate or bowl that is used for serving or cooking food Place the fruit in a large shallow dish.[/ex] 2) [C] food that has been prepared and cooked in a particular way Do you have any vegetarian… …

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  • 32dish — Synonyms and related words: KO, antepast, autoclave, babble, baffle, bail, balk, billy, blast, boil, bowl, brave, broil, bucket, cackle, caddy, cage, can, canister, casserole, cave, cave in, challenge, chat, checkmate, china, chinaware,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 33dish — I. n 1a. a very attractive woman. This appre ciative term (though offensive to most modern women) is one of many that liken a woman to a tasty snack or meal. Unlike tart or crumpet, e.g., dish was introduced, or perhaps reintroduced (the metaphor …

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  • 34dish — [OE] Like dais, desk, and disc, dish comes ultimately from Greek dískos ‘quoit’. As their diversity of form and meaning suggests, they were acquired at various times and by various routes. English got dish around 700 AD from Latin discus, in… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 35dish — noun 1) a china dish Syn: bowl, plate, platter, salver, paten; container, receptacle, casserole, tureen; archaic trencher, charger; historical porringer 2) vegetarian dishes Syn: recipe …

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  • 36dish — 1. n. a good looking woman. □ Wow, isn’t she a dish? □ Now there’s a good looking dish. 2. tv. to criticize someone or something; to spread gossip about someone or something. (Probably short for dish the dirt.) □ The critics all dished the… …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 37dish — [OE] Like dais, desk, and disc, dish comes ultimately from Greek dískos ‘quoit’. As their diversity of form and meaning suggests, they were acquired at various times and by various routes. English got dish around 700 AD from Latin discus, in… …

    Word origins

  • 38dish — 1. noun /dɪʃ/ a) A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. a dish of stew b) The contents of such a vessel. a vegetable dish Syn: plate …

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  • 39Dish —    For eating from (2 Kings 21:13). Judas dipped his hand with a sop or piece of bread in the same dish with our Lord, thereby indicating friendly intimacy (Matt. 26:23). The lordly dish in Judg. 5:25 was probably the shallow drinking cup,… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 40dish — I Australian Slang 1. attractive woman or man; 2. abandon; discard; sack II Cumbrian Dictionary ( n dish) face, e.g. Nice legs, shame about the dish = That young woman has very nice legs, it is a shame that her facial features let her overall… …

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