Usually means: Container used for serving food.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. dish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dish, dish, the dish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dish, dish: Wordnik
  7. dish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. DISH, dish: Wiktionary
  9. dish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. DISH: Dictionary.com
  13. dish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dish (Japanese band), Dish (band), Dish (food), Dish, The Dish (TV series), The Dish (landmark), The Dish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dish: Rhymezone
  19. dish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dish: Free Dictionary
  22. dish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dish: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. dish: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. DISH: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. dish: Medical dictionary
  4. DISH: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DISH: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. dish: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dish: Easton Bible

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Dish: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dish, dish, dish: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dish: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. dish: Urban Dictionary
  4. Dish: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dish: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See dished as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
noun:  The contents of such a vessel.
noun:  (metonymically) A specific type of prepared food.
noun:  (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
noun:  (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
noun:  (slang) A sexually attractive person.
noun:  The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
noun:  A hollow place, as in a field.
noun:  (baseball, slang) The home plate.
noun:  (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
noun:  (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Gossip.
verb:  (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
verb:  (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
verb:  (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
verb:  (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
noun:  Abbreviation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis. [(medicine) calcification of ligaments near their attachment points to the spine]

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