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Dish

noun

1.

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

2.

A particular item of prepared food.

3.

The quantity that a dish will hold. Synonym: dishful.

4.

A very attractive or seductive looking woman. Synonyms: beauty, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart.

5.

Directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation. Synonyms: dish aerial, dish antenna, saucer.

6.

An activity that you like or at which you are superior. Synonyms: bag, cup of tea. "His bag now is learning to play golf" , "Marriage was scarcely his dish"

verb

(past & past part. dished; pres. part. dishing)

1.

Provide (usually but not necessarily food). Synonyms: dish out, dish up, serve, serve up. "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M." , "The entertainers served up a lively show"

2.

Make concave; shape like a dish.

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"Dish" Quotes from Famous Books

... single plate, in order to preserve a memorial of him, he determined that what was sold should be broken up, the arms erased, and no trace left which could show that they had ever been his. The only portions left uninjured were the little eagles with which some of the dish-covers were mounted. These last fragments were objects of veneration for the attendants of Napoleon they were looked upon as relics, with a feeling at once melancholy and religious. When the moment came for breaking up the plate Las Cases bears testimony to the painful emotions and ...

— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

... to a little table in the corner where the remnants of a terrible-looking beef-steak and potatoes lay on a tin dish. ...

— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... Professor Webster. It was possibly with a retroactive sense that they had all felt something uncanny in him, but, apropos of the deep salad-bowl in the centre of the table, Longfellow remembered a supper Webster was at, where he lighted some chemical in such a dish and held his head over it, with a handkerchief noosed about his throat and lifted above it with one hand, while his face, in the pale light, took on the livid ghastliness of that of a ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... dish of roast veal, lettuce and potatoes, there was a plate of white rolls and a ...

— Pixy's Holiday Journey • George Lang

... a young gentleman of distinguished learning and abilities, who at certain times was speechless. The vulgar thought it a pretence: and a jocose lady, where he was at tea with company, putting him as she said to a trial, poured out a dish very strong and without sugar. He drank it and returned the cup with a bow of great reserve, and his eye bent on the ground: she then filled the cup with sugar, and pouring weak tea on it, sent it him: he drank that too, looked ...

— Hypochondriasis - A Practical Treatise (1766) • John Hill

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