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Dish (noun)
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
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Dish (noun)
The contents of such a vessel.
“a dish of stew”
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Dish (noun)
A specific type of prepared food.
“a vegetable dish”
“this dish is filling and easily made”
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Dish (noun)
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.”
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Dish (noun)
A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
“satellite dish”
“radar dish”
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Dish (noun)
A sexually attractive person.
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Dish (noun)
The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
“the dish of a wheel”
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Dish (noun)
A hollow place, as in a field.
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Dish (noun)
A trough in which ore is measured.
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Dish (noun)
That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
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Dish (noun)
Gossip
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Dish (verb)
To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
“The restaurant dished up a delicious Italian brunch.”
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Dish (verb)
To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
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Dish (verb)
To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
“to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes”
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Dish (verb)
To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
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Plate (noun)
A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
“I filled my plate from the bountiful table.”
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Plate (noun)
Such dishes collectively.
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Plate (noun)
The contents of such a dish.
“I ate a plate of beans.”
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Plate (noun)
A course at a meal.
“The meat plate was particularly tasty.”
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Plate (noun)
An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
“With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.”
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Plate (noun)
A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
“A clutch usually has two plates.”
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Plate (noun)
A vehicle license plate.
“He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.”
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Plate (noun)
A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
“The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.”
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Plate (noun)
A material covered with such a layer.
“If you’re not careful, someone will sell you silverware that’s really only silver plate.”
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Plate (noun)
A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
“The tea was served in the plate.”
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Plate (noun)
A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
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Plate (noun)
An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
“We finished making the plates this morning.”
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Plate (noun)
An image or copy.
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Plate (noun)
An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
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Plate (noun)
A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
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Plate (noun)
A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
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Plate (noun)
A foot, from “plates of meat”.
“Sit down and give your plates a rest.”
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Plate (noun)
Home plate.
“There was a close play at the plate.”
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Plate (noun)
A tectonic plate.
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Plate (noun)
Plate armour.
“He was confronted by two knights in full plate.”
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Plate (noun)
Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
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Plate (noun)
A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
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Plate (noun)
The anode of a vacuum tube.
“Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.”
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Plate (noun)
A coin, usually a silver coin.
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Plate (noun)
A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
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Plate (noun)
A prize given to the winner in a contest.
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Plate (noun)
Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
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Plate (noun)
A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline’s logo, name, and numeric code.
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Plate (noun)
The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
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Plate (noun)
A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car’s year of manufacture.
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Plate (noun)
One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
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Plate (noun)
A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
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Plate (noun)
Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
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Plate (noun)
The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
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Plate (noun)
A record, usually vinyl.
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Plate (noun)
Precious metal, especially silver.
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Plate (verb)
To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
“This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.”
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Plate (verb)
To place the various elements of a meal on the diner’s plate prior to serving.
“After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.”
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Plate (verb)
To score a run.
“The single plated the runner from second base.”
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Plate (verb)
To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
“Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary’s first international airline.”
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Dish (noun)
a shallow, flat-bottomed container for cooking or serving food
“an ovenproof dish”
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Dish (noun)
the food contained or served in a dish
“a dish of sauté potatoes”
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Dish (noun)
a particular variety or preparation of food served as part of a meal
“fresh fish dishes”
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Dish (noun)
all the items that have been used in the preparation, serving, and eating of a meal
“I left the children to do the dishes”
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Dish (noun)
a shallow, concave receptacle, especially one intended to hold a particular substance
“the cats’ water dish”
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Dish (noun)
a bowl-shaped radio aerial
“other channels are available with a larger dish”
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Dish (noun)
a sexually attractive person
“I gather he’s quite a dish”
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Dish (noun)
a thing that one enjoys or does well
“as a public relations man this was my dish and the campaign was right up my street”
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Dish (noun)
information which is not generally known or available
“if he has the real dish I wish he’d tell us”
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Dish (noun)
concavity of a spoked wheel resulting from a difference in spoke tension on each side and consequent sideways displacement of the rim in relation to the hub.
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Dish (verb)
put food on to a plate or plates before a meal
“Steve was dishing up vegetables”
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Dish (verb)
dispense something in a casual or indiscriminate way
“the banks dished out loans to all and sundry”
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Dish (verb)
offer or present something, especially something regarded as substandard
“is your ISP short-changing you by dishing up outdated and perhaps incorrect information?”
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Dish (verb)
subject others to criticism or punishment
“you can dish it out but you can’t take it”
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Dish (verb)
gossip or share intimate information
“groups gather to dish about romances”
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Dish (verb)
utterly destroy or defeat
“the election interview dished Labour’s chances”
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Dish (verb)
give concavity to (a wheel) by tensioning the spokes
“this tool accurately checks for proper dishing of a wheel”