dish
Forms
- Plural
- dishes
- present (v1)
- dish
- past (v2)
- dished
- past participle (v3)
- dished
- present participle
- dishing
- 3rd person singular
- dishes
Definitions
1.A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
2.The contents of such a vessel.
3.A specific type of prepared food.
4.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.
- It's your turn to wash the dishes.
1.To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.(informal)
2.To insult, speak ill of.(slang)
3.To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
4.To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2270
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *dъska, whence Bulgarian дъска́ (dǎská), Polish deska, Russian доска́ (doská)), Russian чан (čan)) from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos.