dish
/dɪʃ/ · noun
Meaning
- A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- The contents of such a vessel.
- (metonym) A specific type of prepared food.
- (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.
- A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
- A sexually attractive person.
- To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
- To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
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