Word Finder - dish

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A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.

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The contents of such a vessel.

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a dish of stew

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(metonym) A specific type of prepared food.

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a vegetable dish

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(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.

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It's your turn to wash the dishes.

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A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.

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radar dish

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A sexually attractive person.

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The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.

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the dish of a wheel

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A hollow place, as in a field.

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A trough in which ore is measured.

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That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

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Gossip

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To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.

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The restaurant dished up a delicious Italian brunch.

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To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.

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To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.

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to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes

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To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

Katie washed a dish and rinsed it in silence.

She handed another dish to Carmen.

Of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and went on to the game without omitting a single dish or one of the wines.

He took some gold pieces from his trouser pocket and put them on the dish for her.

It is a shallow saucerlike dish either mounted on a stern and foot or on a foot alone.

Katie grabbed another dish.

I'd use the wrong towel or leave a dish out, and then you'd be threatening to kill me again.

In the first we have the precise history of the Grail, how it was the dish of the Last Supper, confided by our Lord to the care of Joseph, whom he miraculously visited in the prison to which he had been committed by the Jews.

From the root of the kalo is made the national dish called poi; after having been baked and well beaten on a board with a stone pestle it is made into a paste with water and then allowed to ferment for a few days, when it is ready to be eaten.

The khiao were invested by a gold dish, betel-box, spittoon and teapot, which were sent from Bangkok and returned at their death or deposition.

A half-burned candle sat in a dish on the bureau, perhaps signs of Edith's fascination with the last century.

Install a satellite dish in your back garden and tune in to CNN.

He had also, by virtue of an ancient custom, the power of giving the first dish from the king's table to whatever poor person he pleased, or, instead of it, alms in money, which custom is kept up by the lord high almoner distributing as many silver pennies as the sovereign has years of age to poor men and women on Maundy Thursday.

Kara Mustafa paid for his defeat with his life; he was beheaded at Belgrade in 1683 and his head was brought to the sultan on a silver dish.

At Queen's College, Oxford, the dish is still brought on Christmas day in procession to the high-table, accompanied by the singing of a carol.

The dish was subtle in flavor.

Good quality satellite TV coax cable between the dish and the receiver is required, such as CT100.

It might use a small dish antenna bought mail-order and some parts picked up at a surplus store.

And in Marseilles they make an excellent dish of a common fowl, which is often so insipid.

He accompanied her to the commissary, and was duly revolted by her selection of a dish of bright blue jello for dessert.

Installation of 15 meter high slimline monopole, 3 antennas, 1 microwave dish and associated equipment cabin and fencing.

Indeed a " sensitive " tuner might be suffer overload from the strong signal produced by a large dish.

I really wanted to try some typically Spanish dish, and had had paella the day before.

Adding them to a pasta sauce or soup will take up the flavor of the dish.

But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you.

A template for the acetate grids can be prepared by drawing round the base of a petri dish on a piece of graph paper.

Halloween colored M&Ms in orange, purple, and black make an excellent and colorful display dish.

The total alkali is determined by incinerating a weighed sample in a platinum dish, dissolving the residue in water, filtering and titrating the filtrate with standard acid.

In mounting, the specimen is floated out in a flat white dish containing sea-water, so that foreign matter may be detected, and a piece of paper of suitable size is placed under it, supported either by the fingers of the left hand or by a palette.

The paper with the specimen is then carefully removed from the water by sliding it over the edge of the dish so as to drain it as much as possible.

The most characteristic is the " pan," a circular dish of sheetiron or " tin," with sloping sides about 13 or 14 in.

In Mexico and South America, instead of the pan, a wooden dish or trough, known as " batea," is used.

Buckwheat flour is used in considerable quantities in some districts for the making of buckwheat cakes, eaten with maple syrup. These two make an excellent breakfast dish, characteristic of Canada and some of the New England states.

Deparcieux added a small dish on the top of the stem for the reception of the weights necessary to sink the instrument to a convenient depth.

The effect of weights placed in such a dish or pan is of course the same as if they were placed within the bulb of the instrument, since they do not alter the volume of that part which is immersed.

They next seated themselves quietly in the dining hall, where the baker set bread in order, and the cook brought each a single dish of one kind of food.

In November 1621, James I., knowing that London was "a dish" which Donne "loved well," "carved" for him the deanery of St Paul's.

In works of art Hygieia is represented, together with Asclepius, as a maiden of benevolent appearance, wearing the chiton and giving food or drink to a serpent out of a dish.

Frequently the leaves powdered together with equal quantities of the powdered leaves of the Cannabis Indica and lobelia mixed with potassium nitrate are burned in an open dish.

Bordeaux led them into a dish shaped depression at the top of a dune and then dismounted.

Lucy's pasta dish came without any pasta, but with rice, and my swamp crabs were positively anorexic.

If main dishes are too big, choose an appetizer or a side dish instead.

I had a dish my doctor says I should eat frequently, grilled aubergines stuffed with tomatoes.

The frittata makes a brilliant picnic dish in summer served cold on its own or sandwiched in crusty baguettes.

Grease a large shallow ovenproof dish and lay the cannelloni in side by side, so they fit snugly.

When a recipe calls for whole cardamom, crack the pod slightly before adding them to the dish to extract the full flavor.

He also finds out how to make an altogether stranger dish consisting of zebu cattle penis and sprigs of marijuana.

Guinea fowl stewed with Treviso chicory and Crème Fraîche is a deliciously rich and caramelized dish, using the maroon chicory from Treviso.

The menu was starred according to the hotness of the dish with 4**** almost coming up to New Mexico's infamous green chile.

Nevertheless, this dish will reproduce perfectly well with larger clams.