dish

Etymology

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”), from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos. Cognates Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish disk (“dish; counter”), Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”).

noun

1. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
2. The contents of such a vessel.
   a dish of stew
3. (metonymically) A specific type of prepared food.
   a vegetable dish
   this dish is filling and easily made
4. (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.
   It's your turn to wash the dishes.
5. (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
   satellite dish
   radar dish
6. (slang) A sexually attractive person.
   Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish! 1993, Westwood Studios, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, Virgin Games
7. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
   the dish of a wheel
8. A hollow place, as in a field.
9. (baseball, slang) The home plate.
   He said, "I don't like your chances at the dish [home plate] tonight." 2008, Paul Byrd, Free Byrd: The Power of a Liberated Life, page 4
   At the plate, Graham pounded the dish three times, just like Bubbles did whenever he was up, […] 2009, Loren Long, Phil Bildner, Magic in the Outfield, page 40
   Also, if you end up getting to the baseball, your pitcher needs to be covering home plate, which pitchers occasionally forget to do. However, if the ball stays near the dish and you have a pitcher on the mound who isn't a space-case, you've got a good shot to get the runner out. 2014, Conor Kelley, The Catcher's Handbook, page 87
10. (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
11. (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
12. (slang, uncountable) Gossip.

verb

1. (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
2. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
3. (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
   to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
4. (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.