Definition of "dish" in English

noun

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

2. The contents of such a vessel.

   • a dish of stew

3. (metonymic) A specific type of prepared food.

   • a vegetable dish
   • this dish is filling and easily made

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.

5. (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.

   • satellite dish
   • radar dish

6. (slang) A sexually attractive person.

   • quite a dish

7. (dated) The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.

   • the dish of a wheel

8. A hollow place, as in a field.

9. (baseball, slang) The home plate.

10. (mining, archaic) A trough in which ore is measured.

11. (mining, archaic) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

12. (slang, uncountable) Gossip.

verb

1. (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.

2. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.

3. (slang) To insult, speak ill of.

4. (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.

   • to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes

5. (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.