dish
/dɪʃ/ noun A1- 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 dish of stew
- A specific type of prepared food. · a vegetable dish· this dish is filling and easily made
- 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. · It's your turn to wash the dishes.
- A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl. · satellite dish· radar dish
- Something that fits someone's tastes, interests, or abilities. · Going to the club is not my dish.
- A sexually attractive person. · quite a dish
- The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity. · the dish of a wheel
Plural dishes
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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There were three plates laid, so that Marilla must be expecting some one home with Matthew to tea; but the dishes were everyday dishes and there was only crab-apple preserves and one kind of cake, so that the expected company could not be any particular company.
In vain she nibbled at the bread and butter and pecked at the crab-apple preserve out of the little scalloped glass dish by her plate.
“Yes, you may wash the dishes.
After you’ve finished the dishes go up-stairs and make your bed.”
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