dish

dish1 [ dıʃ ] noun **

▸ 1 for cooking/serving food

▸ 2 prepared food

▸ 3 plates, etc. to be washed

▸ 4 someone sexually attractive

▸ 5 for radio/television

1. ) count an open container like a plate, but not as deep as a bowl, used for serving or cooking food:

Place the fruit in a large shallow dish.

an ovenproof dish

a pie dish

a ) the food contained in a dish:

dish of: Dishes of dried fruit and nuts were placed on the counter.

b ) a container shaped like a dish:

a soap dish

2. ) count food prepared and cooked in a particular way:

Do you have any vegetarian dishes?

Her favorite dish is fried chicken.

a variety of seafood dishes

3. ) dishes plural the plates, pans, etc. that have to be washed after preparing and serving a meal:

do/wash the dishes: Who's going to do the dishes?

4. ) singular INFORMAL someone you think is sexually attractive

=> DISHY

5. ) count a round piece of equipment that sends or receives radio or television messages:

a satellite dish

dish

dish 2 [ dıʃ ] verb

dish the dirt INFORMAL

to tell people what you know about someone, especially things that could damage their reputation

,dish `out phrasal verb transitive

1. ) INFORMAL to give things to a number of people:

Some doctors are dishing out drugs their patients do not need.

2. ) to serve food:

He was dishing out a chicken stew.

3. ) INFORMAL if someone dishes out something such as criticism or punishment, they criticize or punish someone severely:

He's always ready to dish out criticism.

a ) someone can dish it out but they can't take it INFORMAL used for saying that someone often criticizes other people but does not like being criticized

,dish `up phrasal verb intransitive or transitive

to put food into dishes so that it is ready to be eaten