dish: Meaning and Definition of

dish

1. an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, esp. for holding or serving food.
2. any container used at table: dirty dishes.
3. the food served or contained in a dish: The meal consisted of several dishes.
4. a particular article, type, or preparation of food: Rice is an inexpensive dish.
5. the quantity held by a dish; dishful: a dish of applesauce.
6. anything like a dish in form or use.
7. concavity or the degree of concavity, as of a wheel.
8. Also calleda concave, dish-shaped reflector serving to focus electromagnetic energy as part of a transmitter or receiver of radio, television, or microwave signals.
9. . an attractive girl or woman: The receptionist is quite a dish.
10. an item of gossip.

1. to put into or serve in a dish, as food: to dish food onto plates.
2. to fashion like a dish; make concave.
3. to gossip about: They talked all night, dishing their former friends.
4. to defeat; frustrate; cheat.

1. to talk together informally, esp., to gossip.
2. to dispense abusive language, punishment, or praise, enthusiastic approval, etc.: When it comes to flattery, he can really dish it out.
3. She dished out our pay in silver dollars.
1. to serve (food) from a serving dish, pot, etc.
2. to deal out; distribute:She dished out our pay in silver dollars.