dish

dish
    n 1: 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"
    2: a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special
       dish for dinner"
    3: the quantity that a dish will hold; "they served me a dish of
       rice" [syn: {dish}, {dishful}]
    4: a very attractive or seductive looking woman [syn: {smasher},
       {stunner}, {knockout}, {beauty}, {ravisher}, {sweetheart},
       {peach}, {lulu}, {looker}, {mantrap}, {dish}]
    5: directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for
       microwave or radio frequency radiation [syn: {dish}, {dish
       aerial}, {dish antenna}, {saucer}]
    6: 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"; "marriage was scarcely his dish" [syn: {cup of
       tea}, {bag}, {dish}]
    v 1: provide (usually but not necessarily food); "We serve meals
         for the homeless"; "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M.";
         "The entertainers served up a lively show" [syn: {serve},
         {serve up}, {dish out}, {dish up}, {dish}]
    2: make concave; shape like a dish
    

Dish \Dish\ (d[i^]sh), n. [AS. disc, L. discus dish, disc,
   quoit, fr. Gr. di`skos quoit, fr. dikei^n to throw. Cf.
   {Dais}, {Desk}, {Disc}, {Discus}.]
   1. A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving
      up food at the table.
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            She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. --Judg.
                                                  v. 25.
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   2. The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of
      food, especially prepared food; as, a cold dish; a warm
      dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods." --Shak.

            Home-home dishes that drive one from home. --Hood.
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   3. The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree
      of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
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   4. A hollow place, as in a field. --Ogilvie.
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   5. (Mining)
      (a) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in
          which ore is measured.
      (b) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to
          the land owner or proprietor.
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   6. anything with a discoid and concave shape, like that of a
      dish.
      [PJC]

   7. an electronic device with a concave reflecting surface
      which focuses reflected radio waves to or from a point,
      used as a receiving or transmitting antenna; also called
      {dish antenna}. The dish is often shaped as a paraboloid
      so as to achieve a high sensitivity and enable reception
      of weak signals when used as a receiving antenna, or to
      focus transmitted signals into a narrow beam when used as
      a transmitting antenna.

   Syn: dish aerial, dish antenna, saucer. [PJC]

   8. a very attractive woman or young lady, especaially one
      sexually attractive; -- sometimes considered offensive and
      sexist; as, the departmental secretary is quite a dish.
      [slang]

   Syn: smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, sweetheart, peach,
        lulu, looker, mantrap, dish. [WordNet 1.5 + PJC]

   9. a favorite activity, or an activity at which one excels.
      [slang]

   Syn: cup of tea, bag. [WordNet 1.5 + PJC]

   10. the quantity that a dish will hold, or a dish filled with
       some material.

   Syn: dishful. [WordNet 1.5 + PJC]

   {satellite dish} a dish antenna used to receive signals from
      or to transmit signals to a satellite which transmits or
      receives radio signals. In most common usage, it refers to
      small dish antennas used to receive television programs
      broadcast from geostationary satellites.
      [PJC]
    

Dish \Dish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dished}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Dishing}.]
   1. To put in a dish, ready for the table.
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   2. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish;
      as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
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   3. To frustrate; to beat; to ruin. [Low]
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   4. to talk about (a person) in a disparaging manner; to
      gossip about (a person); as, the secretaries spent their
      break time dishing the newest employee. [slang]
      [PJC]

   {To dish out}.

   1. To serve out of a dish; to distribute in portions at
      table.

   2. (Arch.) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.

   2. to dispense freely; -- also used figuratively; as, to dish
      out punishment; to dish out abuse or insult.

   {To dish up}, to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc., and
      put in dishes to be served at table.
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Dish
for eating from (2 Kings 21:13). Judas dipped his hand with a
"sop" or piece of bread in the same dish with our Lord, thereby
indicating friendly intimacy (Matt. 26:23). The "lordly dish" in
Judg. 5:25 was probably the shallow drinking cup, usually of
brass. In Judg. 6:38 the same Hebrew word is rendered "bowl."

  The dishes of the tabernacle were made of pure gold (Ex.
25:29; 37:16).
    

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      boil, bowl, brave, broil, bucket, cackle, caddy, cage, can,
      canister, casserole, cave, cave in, challenge, chat, checkmate,
      china, chinaware, circumvent, clack, coaster, compote, concave,
      confound, confront, contravene, cook, counter, counteract,
      countermand, counterwork, course, cover, crock, cross, crucible,
      culinary masterpiece, culinary preparation, cup, dash, decant,
      defeat, defy, dessert, destroy, dip, discomfit, disconcert,
      discountenance, dish out, dish up, disrupt, dither, do for, do in,
      elude, entree, entremets, fix, flummox, foil, fork, frustrate, fry,
      gab, gallipot, garbage can, gas, grill, help, helping, hod,
      holdall, hollow, hollow out, hopper, incurve, jaw, knock out,
      knock the chocks, ladle, magazine, main dish, mortar, mortarboard,
      nonplus, pail, palette, patera, perplex, pitcher, place, plate,
      platter, portion, pour, powder horn, prattle, retire, retreat,
      roast, ruin, sabotage, salver, saucer, scoop, scotch, scuttle,
      second helping, service, serving, settle, shoot down, shovel,
      side dish, sink, slop pail, spade, spike, spoil, spoon, stonewall,
      stump, tableware, thwart, tin, torpedo, trash can, tray, trencher,
      undo, upset, vat, waiter, wastepaper basket, watering can, yak