Dish

English Meaning

A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

1. An open, generally shallow concave container for holding, cooking, or serving food.
2. The containers and often the utensils used when eating: took out the dishes and silverware; washed the dishes.
3. A shallow concave container used for purposes other than eating: an evaporating dish.
4. The amount that a dish can hold.
5. The food served or contained in a dish: a dish of ice cream.
6. A particular variety or preparation of food: Sushi is a Japanese dish.
7. A depression similar to that in a shallow concave container for food.
8. The degree of concavity in such a depression.
9. Electronics A dish antenna.
10. Slang A good-looking person, especially an attractive woman.
11. Informal Idle talk; gossip: "plenty of dish about her tattoos, her plastic surgeries, and her ever-younger inamorati” ( Louise Kennedy).
12. To serve (food) in or as if in a dish: dished up the stew.
13. To present: dished up an excellent entertainment.
14. To hollow out; make concave.
15. Informal To gossip about.
16. Chiefly British Slang To ruin, foil, or defeat.
17. Informal To talk idly, especially to gossip.
18. dish out To dispense freely: likes to dish out advice.
19. dish it out Slang To deal out criticism or abuse.