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Verb
/diSH/,
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dishes, plural;
  1. Put (food) onto a plate or plates before a meal
    • - Steve was dishing up vegetables
    • - pop stars who dish up remixes of their old hits
  2. Dispense something in a casual or indiscriminate way
    • - the banks dished out loans to all and sundry
  3. Subject others to criticism or punishment
    • - you can dish it out but you can't take it
  4. Gossip or share information, esp. information of an intimate or scandalous nature
    • - groups gather to brag about babies and dish about romances
  5. Utterly destroy, confound, or defeat (someone or something)

  6. Give concavity to (a wheel) by tensioning the spokes

Noun
  1. A shallow, typically flat-bottomed container for cooking or serving food
    • - an ovenproof dish
  2. The food contained or served in such a container
    • - a dish of oysters
  3. A particular variety or preparation of food served as part of a meal
    • - fresh fish dishes
    • - pasta was served as a main dish
  4. All the items that have been used in the preparation, serving, and eating of a meal
    • - it was our turn to wash the dishes
  5. A shallow, concave receptacle, esp. one intended to hold a particular substance
    • - a soap dish
  6. A bowl-shaped radio antenna

  7. A sexually attractive person
    • - I gather she's quite a dish
  8. A thing that one particularly enjoys or does well
    • - as a public relations man this was my dish and the campaign was right up my street
  9. Information that is not generally known or available
    • - if he has the real dish I wish he'd tell us
  10. Concavity of a spoked wheel resulting from a difference in spoke tension on each side and consequent sideways displacement of the rim in relation to the hub


  1. a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food; "we gave them a set of dishes for a wedding present"
  2. serve: provide (usually but not necessarily food); "We serve meals for the homeless"; "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M."; "The entertainers served up a lively show"
  3. make concave; shape like a dish
  4. a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner"
  5. the quantity that a dish will hold; "they served me a dish of rice"
  6. smasher: a very attractive or seductive looking woman
  7. Dish Network Corporation is the United States' third largest pay-tv provider, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. ...
  8. Dish! is a Canadian English language talk show. Dish! premiered on February 9, 2009 at 10:30 p.m. EST on the Canadian specialty channel, OUTtv.
  9. A dish in gastronomy is a specific food preparation, a "distinct article or variety of food", with cooking finished, and ready to eat, or be served.
  10. The Dish is a 2000 Australian film that tells the story of how the Parkes Observatory was used to relay the live television of man's first steps on the moon, during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. It was the top grossing film in Australia in 2000.
  11. The Dish is a radio telescope in the Stanford foothills. The dish was built in 1966 by the Stanford Research Institute. The cost to construct the telescope was $4. ...
  12. The Dish is a satirical television series aired on the Style Network in the United States. The show (first airing August 16, 2008), hosted by Danielle Fishel, skewers the latest in pop culture (television, movies, magazines, celebrities, etc.) in similar fashion to sister network E! ...
  13. 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; A specific type of prepared food; Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve ...
  14. (dishes) Dishwashing
  15. (dishy) sexy
  16. (Dished) stack of paper lying concave rather than flat.
  17. (Dished) A plate, washer, or disc is dished when the center is recessed from the rim like a shallow bowl.
  18. (Dishy) As in good looking. Much better than "hot."
  19. This is a term that describes a condition found on rear wheels equipped with cogs. Because these take room on the hub's right side, the rim must be centered over the axle instead of the hub. This requires tightening the right-side spokes more than the lefts. ...
  20. 1.(noun. 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 appearance down somewhat.
  21. offsetting of the hub in a rear wheel on a derailleur bike to make room for the cassette and still allow the rim to be centered within the frame
  22. n: A good-looking person, especially an attractive woman.
  23. Like dime, it refers to an assist. When someone says, "Nice dish," they're not referring to your mom's spinach souffle.
  24. To ruin, to frustrate. "He dished us too.”
  25. A piece of sadware 11 to 18 inches (280 to 460 mm) in diameter.