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Dishes

/ˈdɪʃɪz/

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

📖 Definitions of "Dishes"

noun
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    The contents of such a vessel.

    "a dish of stew"

  3. 3

    (metonym) A specific type of prepared food.

    "a vegetable dish"

  4. 4

    (in the plural) 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."

verb
  1. 1

    To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.

    "The restaurant dished up a delicious Italian brunch."

  2. 2

    To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.

  3. 3

    To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.

    "to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes"

  4. 4

    To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

noun
  1. 1

    Dishwashing

    "After dinner they had to do the dishes."

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