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Dish Dɪʃ Shallow Food Extra Examples Noun Baking/Serving

Word3 dish
WordType (noun)
Phonetic /dɪʃ/ /dɪʃ/
Example
  • a baking/serving dish
  • a casserole dish
  • bake in a shallow dish for 45 mins.
  • they helped themselves from a large dish of pasta.
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dish

(noun)/dɪʃ/ /dɪʃ/
  1. a flat shallow container for cooking food in or serving it from
    • SEE ALSO chafing dish
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/chafing-dish
    • a baking/serving dish
    • a casserole dish
    • Bake in a shallow dish for 45 mins.
    • They helped themselves from a large dish of pasta.

    Extra Examples

    • Arrange the salad in a serving dish.
    • your pet's food dish
    • a glass dish
    • an ovenproof dish
  2. 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.
  3. food prepared in a particular way as part of a meal
    • SEE ALSO side dish
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/side-dish
    • 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
    • a savoury dish of curried rice and lamb
    • I can recommend the chef's dish of the day.

    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?
  4. any object that is like a dish or bowl in shape
    • SEE ALSO evaporating dish
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/evaporating-dish
    • a soap dish
  5. a sexually attractive person
    • What a dish!

    Word Origin

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