Dish Word Meaning

Word: Dish
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:

Old English disc ‘plate, bowl’ (related to Dutch dis, German Tisch ‘table’), based on Latin discus (see discus)

Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: dɪʃ
Dialects: British English
Definition:

a shallow, flat-bottomed container for cooking or serving food

Short Definition:

shallow flat-bottomed container

Examples:
  • an ovenproof dish
Definition:

a shallow, concave receptacle, especially one intended to hold a particular substance

Short Definition:

shallow, concave receptacle

Examples:
  • the cats' water dish
Definition:

a sexually attractive person

Short Definition:

sexually attractive person

Examples:
  • I gather he's quite a dish
Definition:

information which is not generally known or available

Short Definition:

restricted information

Examples:
  • if he has the real dish I wish he'd tell us
Definition:

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.

Short Definition:

concavity of spoked wheel

Word: Dish
Speech Type: Verb
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: dɪʃ
Dialects: British English
Definition:

gossip or share information, especially information of an intimate or scandalous nature

Short Definition:

gossip or share information

Examples:
  • groups gather to brag about babies and dish about romances
Definition:

utterly destroy, confound, or defeat

Short Definition:

utterly destroy or defeat

Examples:
  • the election interview dished Labour's chances
Definition:

give concavity to (a wheel) by tensioning the spokes

Short Definition:

give concavity to wheel

Examples:
  • I don't think I dished the wheel correctly—there's a rubbing sound
  • this tool accurately checks for proper dishing of a wheel

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