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      dish
      noun
      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.
      (metonymic) 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.
      (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
      (slang) A sexually attractive person.
      A hollow place, as in a field.
      (baseball, slang) The home plate.
      (slang, uncountable) Gossip.
      Abbreviation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis. [(medicine) calcification of ligaments near their attachment points to the spine]
      (dated) The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
      (mining, archaic) A trough in which ore is measured.
      (mining, archaic) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
      verb
      (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
      (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
      (slang) To insult, speak ill of.
      (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
      (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
      Roots
      diskosdish- · Greek · disk
      Synonyms for dish
      saucerncasserolenplatternplatenentremetsnbowlndessertn
      Words related to dish
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