1. A shallow open container for holding or serving food
   "we gave them a set of dishes for a wedding present"
    
2. A particular item of prepared food
   "she prepared a special dish for dinner"
    
3. The quantity that a dish will hold
   "they served me a dish of rice";
   - dishful
    
4. Directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
   "The house had a large satellite dish antenna on the roof for better TV reception";
   - dish aerial, dish antenna, saucer
    
5. [informal] An activity that you like or at which you are superior
   "marriage was scarcely his dish";
   - bag [informal]
    
6. [Brit, informal] A sexually attractive person of either sex
   "That new bartender is quite a dish"
    
7. [Brit, informal] A very attractive or seductive looking woman
   "He couldn't take his eyes off the dish who had just walked into the room";
   - smasher [Brit, informal], stunner [informal], knockout [informal], beauty, ravisher, peach [informal], lulu [informal], looker [informal], mantrap [informal], patootie [US, informal], fox [informal], hottie [informal], hotty [informal], babe [informal], honey [informal]

1. Provide (usually but not necessarily food)
   "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M"; "We dish up meals for the homeless";
   - serve, serve up, dish out, dish up [informal]
    
2. Make concave; shape like a dish
   "The impact dished the car's fender"
    
3. [N. Amer, informal] Talk informally about someone else's private or personal business, esp. spreading negative or scandalous information even though it has not been confirmed to be true
   "She won't dish the dirt";
   - dish the dirt [informal], gossip

Derived forms: dishing, dishes, dished

Type of: activity, adult female, aliment [archaic], cater, container, containerful, crockery, directional antenna, dishware [US], form, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, provide, put up, shape, speak, supply, sustenance, talk, victuals, vittles [archaic], woman

Part of: meal, microwave radar, radar, radio detection and ranging, radio reflector, radio telescope, radiolocation, repast

Encyclopedia: Dish, Texas