Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
- 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."
- 3noun
The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
- 4noun
A hollow place, as in a field.
- 5noun
A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.
- 6noun
That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
- 7transitive verb
To put in a dish, ready for the table.
- 8transitive verb
To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
- 9transitive verb
To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
- 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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- 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"
- 12noun
directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
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- 13noun
a particular item of prepared food
"she prepared a special dish for dinner"
- 14noun
a very attractive or seductive looking woman
- 15noun
the quantity that a dish will hold
"they served me a dish of rice"
Synonyms
- 16verb
make concave; shape like a dish
- 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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