dish
noun
[ dɪʃ ]
• a shallow, flat-bottomed container for cooking or serving food.
• "an ovenproof dish"
Similar:
bowl,
plate,
soup plate,
platter,
salver,
serving dish,
oven dish,
container,
receptacle,
vessel,
repository,
ashet,
trencher,
charger,
porringer,
paten,
• a shallow, concave receptacle, especially one intended to hold a particular substance.
• "the cats' water dish"
• a sexually attractive person.
• "I gather he's quite a dish"
• information which is not generally known or available.
• "if he has the real dish I wish he'd tell us"
• 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.
dish
verb
• gossip or share information, especially information of an intimate or scandalous nature.
• "groups gather to brag about babies and dish about romances"
• utterly destroy, confound, or defeat.
• "the election interview dished Labour's chances"
• give concavity to (a wheel) by tensioning the spokes.
• "I don't think I dished the wheel correctly—there's a rubbing sound"
Origin:
Old English disc ‘plate, bowl’ (related to Dutch dis, German Tisch ‘table’), based on Latin discus (see discus).
