dishes
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/ˈdɪʃɪz/
English
Definitions
noun
- 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”
- (metonym) A specific type of prepared food.“a vegetable dish”
- (in the plural) 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
- To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.“The restaurant dished up a delicious Italian brunch.”
- To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.“to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes”
- To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
noun
- Dishwashing“After dinner they had to do the dishes.”
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