Word Finder - dishes

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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.

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Dishwashing

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After dinner they had to do the dishes.

We were clearing dishes, before he spoke.

I picked up the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen before sinking into my easy chair in the living room.

She placed the dishes on the counter beside the sink.

Her mother's dishes were on that list.

When you're done with the dishes, let me know.

She finished the dishes and wiped the counters.

She started cleaning the dishes, thinking all the while that he was too much like her father.

On the table were plates, knives and forks, and dishes of bread, meat and fruits.

Oh no, really, all I have to do tonight is put the dishes back in the caterer's boxes.

It looked like real food packed on the low tables with meat, gravies, and tons of dishes of what might have been casseroles of varying colors.

Compressed air or steam is also used for fashioning very large vessels, baths, dishes and reservoirs by the " Sievert " process.

Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.

She put the last of the dishes in the dishwasher and ran water in the sink to wash the iron skillet and wooden handled spatula.

She puts her hands in our plates and helps herself, and when the dishes are passed, she grabs them and takes out whatever she wants.

After supper she washed dishes, pushing him aside when he offered to help.

Carmen cleaned off the table and loaded the dishes in the dishwasher before retiring to her new bedroom.

He pushed away his breakfast dishes and stared out the patio doors at the low hanging clouds.

An American writer has expressed his satisf action that the day-labourer can now have on his table at a nominal price glass dishes of elaborate design, which only an expert can distinguish from hand-cut crystal.

The common potato (Solanum tuberosum), of which wild varieties are found, is not commonly used as a vegetable, but as a flavouring for soups and other dishes.

Even the more traditional Greek dishes - rabbit stew, stuffed aubergines - can't be brought home.

After the dishes were done and the beds made, she usually wandered around the house or sat in the yard, soaking up sun.

I thought we agreed there was no point in using your mother's old dishes when we could just serve our food from the pans we cook it in?

After he left, Carmen turned to the sink of dishes.

Cynthia looked a bit misty-eyed as she rose and began picking up the dishes and turned to her son.

Katie was watching her when Carmen's attention came back to the dishes.

Alex had some nice ironstone dishes, but only a set of four.

After supper she put leftovers away and washed dishes while Alex browsed through the paper.

Would you mind if I used mother's dishes?

She rose and moved the food and wine dishes closer to the edge of the bed then lay across the top.

The last constitutes a valuable article of commerce in the form of copra, from which palm oil is expressed; the natives make use of this oil in made dishes, and also of the soft half-green kernel and the coco-nut " milk," the clear liquid within the nut.

Other vegetables adopted from Mexico are the tomato (tomatl) and the chili, used as flavouring to native dishes.

However, being severely allergic to certain foods, I can never afford to experiment with dishes that I am unfamiliar with.

A tasty aniseed flavored herb for salads, cheese and egg dishes.

Garlic makes a delicious addition to a number of culinary dishes - as does Onion which also has valuable antibacterial and antiviral properties.

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

The menu itself was good looking and all the dishes sounded appetizing.

There were several tasty dishes listed on the menu.

The eclectic international menu also covers Mexican fajitas and a massive range of Italian pasta and gnocchi dishes.

There was work to do in the barn and Katie could use some quality time with her brother, so Carmen left them in the kitchen, doing dishes.

Aren't these the same dishes you didn't want to use at your house?

And my dishes aren't?

I'd feel honored if you brought your mother's dishes here and used them instead of these.

In the morning there were dirty dishes from the night before for the first time in their marriage.

After supper, Alex and Jonathan were sitting on the couch reading a book while she did the dishes.

A student in a gray wig and exaggerated backside was at the sink, pretending to wash dishes.

I wonder if you're the first man to do dishes in this cabin.

The coagulated rubber separates as a mass of spongy caoutchouc. If the coagulation has been effected in shallow dishes, the rubber is obtained in a thin cake of similar shape known as a " biscuit."

The Funtumia latex can also be coagulated by the astringent infusion of Bauhinia leaves or by exposing it in shallow dishes, when the liquid " creams."

In navigation he suggested many new contrivances, such as water-tight compartments, floating anchors to lay a ship to in a storm, and dishes that would not upset during a gale; and beginning in 1757 made repeated experiments with oil on stormy waters.

Of clay and earthenware there were many varieties of domestic dishes, cups and pipkins, and crucibles or melting pots made of clay and horse dung and still retaining the drossy coating of the melted bronze.