Definition of "dish"

dish

/dɪʃ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural dishes
1. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
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  She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Judges v:25
2. The contents of such a vessel.
3. (metonymically) A specific type of prepared food.
  Quotations
  Let's carve him a dish fit for the gods
  1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]
4. (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.
5. (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
6. (slang) A sexually attractive person.
  Quotations
  Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish!
  1993, Westwood Studios, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, Virgin Games
7. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
8. A hollow place, as in a field.
9. (baseball, slang) The home plate.
  Quotations
  He said, "I don't like your chances at the dish [home plate] tonight."
  2008, Paul Byrd, Free Byrd: The Power of a Liberated Life, page 4
  At the plate, Graham pounded the dish three times, just like Bubbles did whenever he was up, […]
  2009, Loren Long, Phil Bildner, Magic in the Outfield, page 40
  Also, if you end up getting to the baseball, your pitcher needs to be covering home plate, which pitchers occasionally forget to do. However, if the ball stays near the dish and you have a pitcher on the mound who isn't a space-case, you've got a good shot to get the runner out.
  2014, Conor Kelley, The Catcher's Handbook, page 87
10. (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
11. (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
12. (slang, uncountable) Gossip.
verb
third-person singular simple present dishes, present participle dishing, simple past and past participle dished
1. (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
2. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
3. (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
4. (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

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