DISH
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dish¹
- /dɪʃ/
Rhymes with -ɪʃ
Where it comes from
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 (dăská), 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, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”).
Compare the identical meaning expansion (vessel for food, then also content of such a vessel, then also specific type of food): Bulgarian блю́до (bljúdo), Russian блю́до (bljúdo). For the roundness aspect, compare Polish rondel (“pan, saucepan”) (< Latin rotundus (whence also English round)), Slovene krožnik < krog. Also compare typologically Proto-Slavic *misъka << Latin mēnsa; Ancient Greek πίναξ (pínax) (several meanings).
noun dishes
- 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.
- The contents of such a vessel. a dish of stew
- A specific type of prepared food. a vegetable dish
- 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.
- A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl. satellite dish
- Something that fits someone's tastes, interests, or abilities. Going to the club is not my dish.
- A sexually attractive person. quite a dish
- The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity. the dish of a wheel
- A hollow place, as in a field. As I topped the ridge I missed my first shot at a sharptail that flushed from a grassy dish.
- The home plate. He said, "I don't like your chances at the dish [home plate] tonight."
- A trough in which ore is measured.
- That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
- Gossip. We've been a very lucky community: We've had GCN to collect our deep dish and write it up as political discourse. GCN is not just another clipboard of polite press releases. GCN is the sticky questions, the sweet moments, and the dirty stories that make up our lives.
verb dishes · dishing · dished
- To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- To insult, speak ill of. In the car with you I heard Joe's voice ― complaining about how invisible black people still are to whites; praising artists we admire; dishing someone's bad taste; planning future adventures; […]
- 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. Have the Tories "dished the Whigs"?
DISH²
noun
- Abbreviation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
DISH³
Where it comes from
Originally known as Clark. The name was changed in November 2005 when the town accepted an offer to rename itself to DISH as part of a commercial agreement with the satellite television company Dish Network.
proper noun
- A town in Denton County, Texas, United States.
