Dish \Dish\ (d[i^]sh), n. [AS. disc, L. discus dish, disc, quoit, fr. Gr. di`skos quoit, fr. dikei^n to throw. Cf. {Dais}, {Desk}, {Disc}, {Discus}.] 1. A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. --Judg. v. 25.
2. The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food, especially prepared food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. ``A dish fit for the gods.'' --Shak.
Home-home dishes that drive one from home. --Hood.
3. The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
4. A hollow place, as in a field. --Ogilvie.
5. (Mining) (a) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured. (b) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
6. anything with a discoid and concave shape, like that of a dish. [PJC]
7. an electronic device with a concave reflecting surface which focuses reflected radio waves to or from a point, used as a receiving or transmitting antenna; also called {dish antenna}. The dish is often shaped as a paraboloid so as to achieve a high sensitivity and enable reception of weak signals when used as a receiving antenna, or to focus transmitted signals into a narrow beam when used as a transmitting antenna.
Syn: dish aerial, dish antenna, saucer. [PJC]
8. a very attractive woman or young lady, especaially one sexually attractive; -- sometimes considered offensive and sexist; as, the departmental secretary is quite a dish. [slang]
9. a favorite activity, or an activity at which one excels. [slang]
Syn: cup of tea, bag. [WordNet 1.5 + PJC]
10. the quantity that a dish will hold, or a dish filled with some material.
Syn: dishful. [WordNet 1.5 + PJC]
{satellite dish} a dish antenna used to receive signals from or to transmit signals to a satellite which transmits or receives radio signals. In most common usage, it refers to small dish antennas used to receive television programs broadcast from geostationary satellites. [PJC]
Dish \Dish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dishing}.] 1. To put in a dish, ready for the table.
2. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
3. To frustrate; to beat; to ruin. [Low]
4. to talk about (a person) in a disparaging manner; to gossip about (a person); as, the secretaries spent their break time dishing the newest employee. [slang] [PJC]
{To dish out}.
1. To serve out of a dish; to distribute in portions at table.
2. (Arch.) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.
2. to dispense freely; -- also used figuratively; as, to dish out punishment; to dish out abuse or insult.
{To dish up}, to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc., and put in dishes to be served at table.
But for hot-weather eating, the dish can be served cold equally well.
One should have thought lamb a more pascal dish; when the meat is young and tender.
However, after tasting the dish in other countries, the French decided they had to set standards by choosing "official" ambassadors overseas.
Toss again. Oil a gratin or baking dish as large as a roasting pan but suitable for bringing to table.
But if it's a success, she and Mr. Mikhailov plan to dish out as many as three a year.
Gore's amendment would have required that programs provided to cable systems be made available to dish owners, and ordered the Federal Communications Commission to extend network programming into isolated areas that cannot receive broadcast signals.
For the original Saturday night event, Hughes had planned to make his signature lobster-stuffed potatoes, the dish ordered by President and Mrs. Bush when they stop by his restaurant.
Tales of overpriced porcelain and rich rubber are only the latest from investigators who uncovered the recent Pentagon acquisitions of $999 pliers and $117 soap dish covers.
An unusual cranberry dish is a cranberry salsa to spice up any roast: turkey, ham, pork tenderloin.
I am happy to line up behind a Colorado dish that shows the state at its most authentic: Rocky Mountain oysters (ovoid sheep organs that separate rams from ewes).
This fragrant dish of pork is one of the easiest I know.
However Nadel estimated buying the council's most energy-efficient refrigerator, dish and clothes washer could save $146 a year.
This is a modern version of mozzarella in carrozza, replacing the bread with aubergines. Without the anchovies it is another dish for vegetarians - simple but delicious. There might have been more recipes to be overheard.
'It is an old Alsace dish which I think you can find in only two or three restaurants.
This is a 3D cooking experience, charting every nuance of change as a dish progresses from raw ingredients to serving and eating. Tomasi's is a contemporary cosmopolitan style of meatless cookery.
When an announcer says, "You are cleared for takeoff," the child sends his airplane-shaped dish of food flying into the air.
Eggs extracted surgically from a woman are fertilized in a laboratory dish and then can be implanted back in the woman.
My sister, Gerry, and I would tiptoe around the table taking a nut or two from each dish; my hunch is the grownups were aware of the game, but winked it away.
All five people ate the so-called "death cap" mushrooms in an Oriental stir fry dish served Saturday at the home of Teresa and John Duncan.
The technique involves removing eggs from healthy donors, fertilizing them in a lab dish and implanting them in the womb.
It would be like our comparing a Renaissance ceramic dish with a painting by Titian.
TBS said the dish owners were receiving the news service illegally for two years.
Springfield's variation on the dish isn't the standard cashew chicken dish found around the country, where stir-fried chicken and vegetables are mixed with cashews.
Springfield's variation on the dish isn't the standard cashew chicken dish found around the country, where stir-fried chicken and vegetables are mixed with cashews.
Cover the dish with a dome of foil, and heat through on a pre-heated baking sheet at 425'F/220'C (gas mark 7) for 10-12 minutes.
Fewer specialist order takers have to be trained and there is a much lower risk of customers being served with a dish they did not order or being charged for something they never received. The system can fail.
Back-yard dish owners also would get guaranteed access to cable programs.
The venture is expected to buy 300,000 dishes, which retail for #199 each, and charge viewers #4.45 a week for dish installation, rental and the descrambling equipment and fees for its pay-television channel.
Lay the fish, skinned side up, on a grid laid across the gratin dish in which you will serve it, and grill for about 4 minutes under moderate heat. Turn the salmon, then sprinkle and press the savoury breadcrumbs lightly over it.
If so, could the name of a dish be culturally protected despite the present rules confining protection quite strictly to geographical origin? These riddles may prove simple compared with those resulting from the partial implementation of the treaty.