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say it: dish
dish is a noun and verb meaning "a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food". It carries 8 recorded senses.
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”
directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
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”
make concave; shape like a dish
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.