dish

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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. 2
   noun

   a particular item of prepared food

   I prepared a special dish for dinner.

3. 3
   noun

   the quantity that a dish will hold

   they served me a dish of rice

4. 4
   verb

   make concave

   shape like a dish

5. 5
   noun

   A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.

   She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

6. 6
   noun

   The contents of such a vessel.

   a dish of stew

7. 7
   noun

   A specific type of prepared food.

   a vegetable dish

8. 8
   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.

Etymology

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”) (whence also Proto-Slavic *dъska, whence Bulgarian дъска́ (dǎská), Polish deska, Russian доска́ (doská)), Russian чан (čan)) from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos. Cognates Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish disk (“dish; counter”), Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”). Co…