dish

noun

/dɪʃ/

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[countable] a flat shallow container for cooking food in or serving it from
- a baking/serving dish
- a casserole dish
- in a dish Bake in a shallow dish for 45 mins.
- dish of something They helped themselves from a large dish of pasta.
see also chafing dish
Extra Examples
- Arrange the salad in a serving dish.
- your pet's food dish
- a glass dish
- an ovenproof dish
Topics Cooking and eatinga1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- deep
- flat
- shallow
- …
preposition
- in a/the dish
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often the dishes
[plural] the plates, bowls, cups, etc. that have been used for a meal and need to be washed
- I'll do the dishes (= wash them).
- My first real job was washing dishes in a restaurant.
Extra Examples
- He dried the dishes and put them away.
- It's your turn to do the dishes.
- The dirty breakfast dishes were still in the sink when we got home.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- clean
- washed
- dirty
- …
verb + the dishes
- clean
- do
- wash
- …
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[countable] food prepared in a particular way as part of a meal
- a vegetarian/fish/meat/pasta dish
- This makes an excellent hot main dish.
- I decided to cook his favourite dish.
- to prepare/serve a dish
- dish of something a savoury dish of curried rice and lamb
- I can recommend the chef's dish of the day.
see also side dish
Extra Examples
- Goulash is a meat dish.
- Kedgeree makes a wonderful supper dish.
- Serve one or two main dishes with a choice of salads and nibbles.
- She cooked us a delicious French dish with pork and tomatoes.
- The national dish is ‘feijoada’—pork with beans.
- They sampled all the local dishes.
- a restaurant that serves traditional Indian dishes
- a simple dish, beautifully prepared
- Do you have a favourite dish?
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- main
- side
- favourite/favorite
- …
verb + dish
- cook
- make
- prepare
- …
phrases
- the dish of the day
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[countable] any object that is like a dish or bowl in shape
- a soap dish
see also evaporating dish, Petri dish, satellite dish
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- clean
- washed
- dirty
- …
verb + the dishes
- clean
- do
- wash
- …
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[countable] (old-fashioned, informal) a sexually attractive person
- What a dish!
Topics Appearancec2

Word OriginOld English disc ‘plate, bowl’ (related to Dutch dis, German Tisch ‘table’), based on Latin discus, from Greek diskos.

dish

verb

/dɪʃ/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they dish	/dɪʃ/ /dɪʃ/
he / she / it dishes	/ˈdɪʃɪz/ /ˈdɪʃɪz/
past simple dished	/dɪʃt/ /dɪʃt/
past participle dished	/dɪʃt/ /dɪʃt/
-ing form dishing	/ˈdɪʃɪŋ/ /ˈdɪʃɪŋ/

Idioms Phrasal Verbs

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Idioms

dish the dirt (on somebody)

(informal) to tell people unkind or unpleasant things about somebody, especially about their private life
- She loves to dish the dirt on her sisters.

dish it out

(disapproving, informal) to criticize other people
- He enjoys dishing it out, but he really can't take it (= cannot accept criticism from other people).