dish

Examples

• All

• My vegetarian friends always love this meal of twelve meatless dishes served on Christmas Eve.

  Academic text (1996)

• Here's our first dish of the night, little antipast.

• If you want to leave, you must bake a dish of my choosing.

• All right, Ryan, this dish was called devil eggs.

• Jill stepped from their kitchen with a glass dish of white ice cream.

  Fiction book (1990)

• We haven't prepared that dish in years.

  The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)

• Meals served in the dining hall are Chinese dishes and surprisingly good.

  Academic text (1995)

• Aunt Amanda would cook our favorite dishes as she had when we lived with them.

  Fiction book (1993)

• I scrape the corn into a dish, then I fix us a tossed salad.

  Fiction book (1990)

• When he returned with a dish of green tomato piccalilli, silence befell the table.

  Fiction book (1992)

Synonyms

P

plate

vsdish

245 1.0

A quantity of food served on a dish

is measured by the container's capacity rather than a person's share

S

serving

vsdish

104 1.0

An amount of food or drink for one person at a meal

is defined by the container's capacity rather than by a person's share

P

portion

vsdish

61 1.3

An amount of food or drink served to one person

is defined by the container's capacity rather than by an individual's share

H

helping

vsdish

5 1.0

An amount of food or drink served to one person at a meal

is based on the container's capacity rather than on an individual's share

P

plateful

vsdish

2 2.3

A plate filled with food

is used for that amount when it is given to someone

V

viand

vsdish

• Archaic

1 9.9

A special, nicely made dish of food

is about the quantity a container can hold rather than food quality

D

dishful

vsdish

6.7

An amount that fills a dish

is used when noting that amount especially when given to someone

Compounds

S

side dish

19 1.0

A small food served with the main dish to add flavor

F

favorite dish

• US

12 1.4

A meal you enjoy more than any other

D

dish towel

• US

6 1.0

A cloth used to dry dishes after they are washed

S

signature dish

6 4.1

A dish a chef or restaurant is best known for

P

Petri dish

• Specialized

5 4.1

A shallow round dish with a loose lid used to grow bacteria

C

chafing dish

4 6.4

A metal pan on a small heater used to cook or keep food hot at the table

S

serving dish

3 1.0

A dish used to hold food for people to share at the table

S

soap dish

3 1.0

A small tray that holds a bar of soap

B

butter dish

2 1.2

A small dish with a lid for keeping and serving butter at the table

D

dish rack

2 1.1

A rack that holds dishes after washing so the water drains off them

T

traditional dish

1 2.2

A food people in an area cook and eat for a long time

D

dish antenna

• Specialized

1 4.1

A curved metal dish that directs radio or satellite signals to a single point

L

local dish

1 2.3

Traditional food from a certain place that people often eat there

D

deep-dish pie

1 2.7

A pie with a deep layer of fruit filling and a top crust

D

dish aerial

• UK

6.8

A curved metal dish that sends and receives signals from satellites

D

dish bitch

• Offensive

9.9

A person who always washes the dishes at parties or family meals as a joke

A

alms dish

9.9

A shallow dish that people pass around during a religious service to collect money

E

experimental dish

6.3

A cooked food made in a new way to try out ideas

S

solar dish

• Specialized

5.8

A large curved mirror that focuses sunlight to one point to make high heat for energy or experiments

S

staple dish

3.2

A common food people in a region eat often as a main part of meals

How Much

dish

82 1.0

serving

104 1.0

plateful

2 2.3

helping

5 1.0

mouthful

59 1.6

bite

302 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology