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UK
/dˈɪʃ/
]
[ US /ˈdɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɪʃ/ ]
NOUN
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
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a particular item of prepared food
she prepared a special dish for dinner -
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 -
the quantity that a dish will hold
they served me a dish of rice - a very attractive or seductive looking woman
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an activity that you like or at which you are superior
marriage was scarcely his dish
his bag now is learning to play golf
chemistry is not my cup of tea
VERB
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provide (usually but not necessarily food)
She dished out the soup at 8 P.M.
We serve meals for the homeless
The entertainers served up a lively show - make concave; shape like a dish
How To Use dish In A Sentence
- When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu. NYT > Home Page
- The side dish the day I visited was a simple mixed olive salad, a mélange of black and green olives with spicy oil.
- He's not tried to be dishonest, he has just forgotten to mention one thing.
- I looked up to see Brody onstage, his dishevelled dark brown hair flopping across his forehead and both hands hanging onto the microphone.
- This dish can be served as a starter or a main course.
- It gave the dish a very subtle flavour, that Port-Salut.
- A second wave of emigrations of Ashkenazic Jews from Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought larger numbers of Yiddish-speaking, traditional Orthodox Jews into the Seattle community. Weaving Women's Words: Seattle Stories
- The little dark-brown, doughnut-shaped fritters tasted a whole lot like Indian pakoras, and indeed came with a dish of raita for dipping.
- After just the right wait, they arrived, each accompanied by a side dish of steamed vegetables.
- Place in a shallow dish and squeeze over lemon juice, then drizzle over oil.