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Definition of dish

"dish" in the noun sense

1. dish

a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food

"we gave them a set of dishes for a wedding present"

2. dish

a particular item of prepared food

"she prepared a special dish for dinner"

3. dish, dishful

the quantity that a dish will hold

"they served me a dish of rice"

4. smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish

a very attractive or seductive looking woman

5. dish, dish aerial, dish antenna, saucer

directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

6. cup of tea, bag, dish

an activity that you like or at which you are superior

"chemistry is not my cup of tea"

"his bag now is learning to play golf"

"marriage was scarcely his dish"

"dish" in the verb sense

1. serve, serve up, dish out, dish up, dish

provide (usually but not necessarily food

"We serve meals for the homeless"

"She dished out the soup at 8 P.M."

"The entertainers served up a lively show"

2. dish

make concave shape like a dish

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Quotations for dish

Better are small fish
Than an empty dish. [ Proverb ]

The first dish pleases all. [ Proverb ]

Stale colewort in a fresh dish. [ Proverb ]

No dish pleases all palates alike. [ Proverb ]

You spoil a good dish with ill sauce. [ Proverb ]

A cheerful look makes a dish a feast. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I have more to do than a dish to wash. [ Proverb ]

Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen. [ Proverb ]

Two hands in a dish, and one in a purse. [ Proverb ]

Even sugar itself may spoil a good dish. [ Proverb ]

All are not turners that are dish-throwers. [ Proverb ]

I will not make my dish-clout my table-cloth. [ Proverb ]

He speaks as if every word would lift a dish. [ Proverb ]

All's lost that is poured into a cracked dish. [ Proverb ]

If it should rain porridge he would want a dish. [ Proverb ]

I know him as well as the beggar knows his dish. [ Proverb ]

You know not what ladle your dish may come under. [ Proverb ]

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish. [ William Shakespeare ]

Friendship and importunate begging feed not at the same dish. [ Proverb ]

He needs a long spoon who eats out of the same dish with the devil. [ Proverb ]

Where love enters to season a dish, I believe it will please any one. [ Plaut ]

There is something in it, quoth the fellow, when he drunk dish-clout and all. [ Proverb ]

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome. [ Massinger ]

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of man than the discovery of a star. [ Brillat-Savarin ]

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to. [ Bishop Horne ]

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavor to the dish; but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage. [ Smollett ]

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]

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dish in Scrabble®

The word dish is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters dish:

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dish in Words With Friends™

The word dish is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words within the letters of dish

2 letter words in dish (3 words)

hiidis

3 letter words in dish (3 words)

hidhisids

4 letter words in dish (1 word)

dish

dish + 1 blank (3 words)

hideshindsshied

dish + 2 blanks (23 words)

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Words containing the sequence dish

Words that start with dish (134 words)

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Words with dish in them (47 words)

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Words that end with dish (35 words)

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Word Growth involving dish

Shorter words in dish

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Longer words containing dish

baldish

blandish blandished

blandish blandisher blandishers

blandish blandishes

blandish blandishing blandishingly

blandish blandishment blandishments

blockheadish blockheadishness

blondish

brandish brandished rebrandished

brandish brandisher brandishers

brandish brandishes rebrandishes

brandish brandishing rebrandishing

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brandish rebrandish rebrandishes

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caddish caddishness

cardboardish

childish childishly unchildishly

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childish unchildish unchildishly

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cloddish cloddishly

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deadish deadishly

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dishabilitate dishabilitates

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disharmonic disharmonical disharmonically

disharmonies

disharmonious disharmoniously

disharmonious disharmoniousness

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disharmonise disharmonised

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disharmonising

disharmonism disharmonisms

disharmonization disharmonizations

disharmonize disharmonized

disharmonize disharmonizes

disharmonizing

disharmony

dishboard dishboards

dishcloth dishcloths

dishearten disheartened

dishearten disheartening dishearteningly

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dished blandished

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dishes blandishes

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dishes radishes horseradishes

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dishevel disheveled undisheveled

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dishonor dishonorable dishonorableness

dishonor dishonorable dishonorables

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dishonor dishonored

dishonor dishonorer dishonorers

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dishonour dishonourable dishonourableness

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dishonour dishonourer dishonourers

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dishorn dishorned

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dishpan dishpanful

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dishrack dishracks

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dishwash dishwasher dishwashers

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oldmaidish

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petridish petridishes

prudish prudishly

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radish horseradish horseradishes

radish radishes horseradishes

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