Definition of Dish

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Definition of Dish

Dish

A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

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."

The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

A hollow place, as in a field.

A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.

That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

To put in a dish, ready for the table.

To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.

To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.

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Dish Quotations

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
John Steinbeck

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
Larry Bird

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
Harry Houdini

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
Paul Simon

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
Alton Brown

I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.
Cornelia Funke

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.
Paul Prudhomme

The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined.
Martin Yan

Dish Translations

dish in Danish is fad
dish in Dutch is schotel, schaal
dish in Finnish is vati
dish in French is met, repas
dish in Italian is scodella, pietanza
dish in Latin is lanx, patella
dish in Norwegian is fat, tallerken
dish in Portuguese is prato

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