dish

IPA: dˈɪʃ

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.
(metonymically) A specific type of prepared food.
(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.
(telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
(slang) A sexually attractive person.
The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
A hollow place, as in a field.
(baseball, slang) The home plate.
(mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
(mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
(slang, uncountable) Gossip.
Abbreviation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis. [(medicine) calcification of ligaments near their attachment points to the spine]

(transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
(informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
(transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
(slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

Examples of "dish" in Sentences

This Turkish dish translates as ‘The Imam fainted’.
This spicy-sweet, meatless main dish is traditional Oaxacan Lenten fare.
No matter what the main dish is (eggs, chicken, beef, stewed or grilled) it may be cut first with a knife and fork, but it is then wrapped in a small piece of tortilla before being put into the mouth.
September 17, 2008 5: 41 AM teeny said ... the photo at Logia tis Ploris of the urchin dish is the best photo you've taken to date. color, highlight on the dish, fork in the background, it's excellent.