Dish

Noun

 * 1) A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
 * 2) The contents of such a vessel.
 * 3) A specific type of prepared food.
 * 4)  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.
 * 5) a type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl, as in satellite dish, radar dish
 * 6)  A sexually attractive person.

Verb

 * 1)  To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
 * 2)  To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.

Adjectives for Dish
humble; distinguished; glorious; different; tempting; delicious; time-honored; warmed-over; exotic; appetizing; delicate; fattening; sumptuous; velvet; lordly; rattling; tempting; priceless; savory; attractive; fascinating; toothsome; succulent; elaborate; unwholesome; economical; earthen; kingly; chafing; tasty; pewter; substantial; rich; sparkling; unornamental; fatal; fragile; glittering; nutritious; strange; clean; dirty; anomalous; conventional.

Verbs for Dish
cover—; devour—; dip into—; eschew—; garnish—; hurl—; pile—; relish—; sauce —; scour—; serve—; smash—; sprinkle—; wipe—; —clatters; —nourishes; —rattles.

Thesaurus
cook, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, course, cover, crock, cross, crucible, culinary masterpiece, culinary preparation, cup, dash, decant, defeat, defy, dessert, destroy, dip, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dish out, dish up, disrupt, dither, do for, do in, elude, entree, entremets, fix, flummox, foil, fork, frustrate, fry, gab, gallipot, garbage can, gas, grill, help, helping, hod, holdall, hollow, hollow out, hopper, incurve, jaw, knock out, knock the chocks, ladle, magazine, main dish, mortar, mortarboard, nonplus, pail, palette, patera, perplex, pitcher, place, plate, platter, portion, pour, powder horn, prattle, retire, retreat, roast, ruin, sabotage, salver, saucer, scoop, scotch, scuttle, second helping, service, serving, settle, shoot down, shovel, side dish, sink, slop pail, spade, spike, spoil, spoon, stonewall, stump, tableware, thwart, tin, torpedo, trash can, tray, trencher, undo, upset, vat, waiter, wastepaper basket, watering can, yak, 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, circumvent, clack, coaster, compote, concave, confound, confront, contravene,

Etymology
From disc: from West  <  discus:. Cognate with Dutch disch:, German Tisch:.

Synonyms

 * (vessel): plate
 * (contents): dishful, plate, plateful
 * (type of prepared food):
 * (sexually attractive person): babe, fox

Derived terms

 * chafing dish
 * covered-dish
 * deep-dish
 * dish aerial
 * dish antenna
 * dish out
 * dish pig


 * dish the dirt
 * dish towel
 * dish up
 * dishcloth
 * dished
 * dishy


 * do the dishes
 * gratin dish
 * Petri dish
 * satellite dish
 * serving dish
 * side dish

Noun

 * Bosnian: tanjir
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 碟子, ,
 * Dutch: bord, taloor (only in Flanders and only in dialect)
 * Esperanto:, plado
 * Finnish: lautanen (plate); tarjoiluvati, vati, astia
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: πιάτο (pçáto)


 * Hebrew: צלחת (tzalakhat)
 * Hungarian: tányér
 * Italian:, scodella
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mias, soitheach
 * Slovene: krožnik
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bosnian: tanjir
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: (serving);, ,  (dishful of)
 * French:


 * Hebrew: מנה (mana)
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian: jelo
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: πιάτο (pçáto)


 * Hebrew: מאכל (maakhal)
 * Hungarian: fogás
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: jed
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bosnian: suđe
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: πιάτα (pçáta)


 * Hebrew: כלים (kelym)
 * Hungarian: tányér
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: posoda
 * Spanish: ,


 * Bulgarian: чиния
 * Finnish: lautasantenni
 * French:


 * Hungarian: parabolaantenna
 * Italian: parabola
 * Slovene: krožnik


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: namupala


 * French:
 * Portuguese:

Anagrams

 * HSDI
 * shid, SHID