to dish
- verb
- /dɪʃ/
- During the school lunch, the cafeteria staff will dish out nutritious food to the students.
Inevitably, life is going to dish some difficult and testing moments at you.
- Inevitably, life is going to dish some difficult and testing moments at you.
- How about you go to camp, dish out some waters, hang out, and then get cut?
- They will instead dish up some complicated story about vacuum fluctuations and quantum gravity and whatnot.
- I'm going to try and I'm going to dish out some reality here, but come on, you keep going.
- If it was the case that they could also handle whatever we dished out too, that we could be brutally honest with them.
- If it was the case that they could also handle whatever we dished out to that, we could be brutally honest with them.
- Ignoring the possibility of death enables us to keep dishing it out.
Examples
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La Bonita, especially their original location in Northeast Portland, dishes up consistently delicious taqueria fare.
Blog text (2) -
After the main course, the waiter began to dish out desserts to the guests.
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Over here, dish that up, will you?
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Mac is in the kitchen dishing up some ice cream.
Fiction book (1999) -
Just as Mama was dishing out the pizza, someone knocked on the door.
Fiction book (1995) -
We're going to be dishing up some cornbread and some chili.
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Monday nights, the Salvation Army dished out chili at the shelter in the old armory.
Fiction book (1995) -
At the charity event, volunteers will dish out meals to those in need.
Synonyms
To give food or drink to someone, usually during a meal
To give something to people in a group
To give food or drink to people
To give out things to several people, often food or advice
To give medicine or other things to people at a pharmacy
To serve food onto plates for people to eat
To put food into a bowl to serve it
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
To add small food items, like herbs or lemon peel, to a dish to make it look nicer
Compounds
- Specialized
A curved metal dish that directs radio or satellite signals to a single point
- Specialized
A large curved mirror that focuses sunlight to one point to make high heat for energy or experiments
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Surface Forms
Etymology
To dish or 'dish out' food means to serve or give it from a plate. This comes from putting food on a dish and handing it to people.