dish

A shallow container used to hold, cook, or serve food.

• Put the fruit in a dish.
• She broke a glass dish.
• These dishes are safe to use in the oven.

Similar words: plate, bowl

Common phrases: serving dish, oven dish, shallow dish

A particular kind of food prepared as part of a meal.

• This dish is delicious.
• She cooked a traditional rice dish.
• Which dishes on the menu are vegetarian?

Common phrases: main dish, vegetarian dish, traditional dish

The plates, cups, and other eating or cooking things that need washing after a meal.

• Please wash the dishes.
• Dirty dishes filled the sink.
• Who did the dishes last night?

How to use it: do the dishes (I'll do the dishes after dinner.)

Similar words: washing-up

Common phrases: wash the dishes, do the dishes, dirty dishes

The amount of food held in one shallow container.

• He ate a dish of stew.
• We shared two dishes of noodles.
• She finished a whole dish of pudding.

How to use it: a dish of something (We shared a dish of rice.)

Similar words: dishful

Common phrases: dish of rice, dish of stew, dish of pudding

To talk about someone's private life or share interesting secrets about them.

• We sat around and dished.
• She dished about the celebrity's wedding.
• Are you going to dish the dirt on your old boss?

How to use it: dish about someone/something (They dished about their friends' love lives.); dish on someone/something (The actor dished on his famous co-stars.)

Similar words: gossip

Common phrases: dish about someone, dish on someone, dish the dirt

To shape something so that its middle curves inward.

• The worker dished the metal plate.
• You can dish a wheel by adjusting its spokes.
• The press dishes the sheet into a shallow curve.

Common phrases: dish a wheel, dish the metal, dish the plate