dish
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
Noun 4 meanings
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
The contents of such a vessel.
“a dish of stew”
A specific type of prepared food.
“a vegetable dish”
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.”
Verb 2 meanings
To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
“to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes”
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 (dăská), Polish deska, Russian доска́ (doská)), Russian чан (čan)) from Latin discus.
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DISH at a glance
DISH has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (D 2 + I 1 + S 1 + H 4) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,938 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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