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. noun. A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
2. noun. 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. noun. The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
4. noun. A hollow place, as in a field.
5. noun. A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.
6. noun. That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
7. transitive verb. To put in a dish, ready for the table.
8. transitive verb. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
9. transitive verb. To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
10. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: bag

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

    Synonyms: saucer

13. noun. a particular item of prepared food

    "she prepared a special dish for dinner"

14. noun. a very attractive or seductive looking woman

    Synonyms: beauty, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart

15. noun. the quantity that a dish will hold

    "they served me a dish of rice"

    Synonyms: dishful

16. verb. make concave; shape like a dish
17. verb. provide (usually but not necessarily food)

    "We serve meals for the homeless"

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

    Synonyms: serve

Synonyms

bag, saucer, beauty, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart, dishful, serve

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dish:

sidh

Common word forms

dished, disher, dishes, dishful, dishing, dishable

Words from these letters

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