dish-shaped
- adjective
- /dɪʃ-ʃeɪpt/
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en forma de plato
- We used a dish-shaped plate to serve the salad, making it look more appealing at the dinner table.
- dish-shaped leaf
Examples
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The artist created a stunning sculpture in the form of a dish-shaped bowl that captured the light beautifully.
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On his belly, he held a dish-shaped receptacle.
Fiction book (1999) -
They may be radially or bilaterally symmetrical, tubular in form or dish-shaped.
Academic text (2006) -
And when he got to this facility, they opened up these doors and he saw, propped up on scaffolding, this 40-foot diameter dish-shaped craft that looked like a fat hamburger.
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The garden featured a dish-shaped pond that reflected the sky and surrounded colorful flowers.
Synonyms
5
5.2
Curved inward like the inside of a bowl or spoon
1
3.9
Shallow, rounded, and curved inward like a small dish
1
3.6
A shape with a curved bottom and an open top like a bowl
Shaped like a shallow bowl or plate
A surface that curves inward like a shallow bowl
Shaped like a shallow bowl
Rounded and hollow like a bowl
How Concave
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dish-shaped joins dish, meaning a shallow bowl you eat from, and -shaped, meaning 'in the form of'. So something dish-shaped is 'in the form of a dish', a shallow, curved surface, which explains why we call bowls, flower bases, or satellite dishes by that name.