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dish

dish is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 17 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

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

  2. 2noun

    The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."

  3. 3noun

    The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

  4. 4noun

    A hollow place, as in a field.

  5. 5noun

    A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.

  6. 6noun

    That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

  7. 7transitive verb

    To put in a dish, ready for the table.

  8. 8transitive verb

    To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.

  9. 9transitive verb

    To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.

  10. 10noun

    an activity that you like or at which you are superior

    "chemistry is not my cup of tea"

    "his bag now is learning to play golf"

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  11. 11noun

    a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food

    "we gave them a set of dishes for a wedding present"

  12. 12noun

    directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

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  13. 13noun

    a particular item of prepared food

    "she prepared a special dish for dinner"

  14. 14noun

    a very attractive or seductive looking woman

  15. 15noun

    the quantity that a dish will hold

    "they served me a dish of rice"

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  16. 16verb

    make concave; shape like a dish

  17. 17verb

    provide (usually but not necessarily food)

    "We serve meals for the homeless"

    "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M."

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