dish
pronunciation
How to pronounce dish in British English:
UK [dɪʃ]
How to pronounce dish in American English:
US [dɪʃ]
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- Noun:
- a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food
- a particular item of prepared food
- the quantity that a dish will hold
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
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- Verb:
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
- make concave; shape like a dish
Word Origin
- dish
- dish: [OE] Like dais, desk, and disc, dish comes ultimately from Greek dískos ‘quoit’. As their diversity of form and meaning suggests, they were acquired at various times and by various routes. English got dish around 700 AD from Latin discus, in which the original meaning ‘quoit’ had been extended metaphorically to ‘tray, platter, dish’ on the basis of the semantic features ‘roundness’ and ‘flatness’.=> dais, desk, disc
- dish (n.)
- Old English disc "plate, bowl, platter," from Latin discus "dish, platter, quoit," from Greek diskos "disk, platter" (see disk (n.)). A common West Germanic borrowing; Old High German borrowed the word as tisc "plate," but German tisch now means "table," in common with other later Romanic forms (such as Italian desco, French dais). Meaning "particular variety of food served" is first recorded mid-15c. Meaning "what one likes" is c. 1900; that of "attractive woman" is 1920s. Meaning "concave reflector or antenna" attested from 1948.
- dish (v.)
- "to serve food," late 14c., from dish (n.). Meaning "to disparage, denigrate" first recorded 1940s; probably from the same notion in figurative dish it out "administer punishment" (1934). Related: Dished; dishing.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Many people come here specifically to try this dish .
- 2. The popularity of this humble dish cannot be overstated .
- 3. Now tv and dish cable has made life more active .
- 4. On the table was a plastic dish full of sunflower seeds .
- 5. Put the candleholder in the dish .