dish

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The best fish for the dish are the verities caught from the Harike Pattan and Beas rivers.

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  1. noun An open, generally shallow concave container for holding, cooking, or serving food.
  2. noun The containers and often the utensils used when eating: took out the dishes and silverware; washed the dishes.
  3. noun A shallow concave container used for purposes other than eating: an evaporating dish.
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  • The best fish for the dish are the verities caught from the Harike Pattan and Beas rivers. —  PunjabNewsline News
  • Wine pairing: This dish is a more flexible match, though reds still have the edge. —  Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
  • This dish is also good served over ramen noodles.
  • This dish was a hybrid salad. —  I'm Mad and I Eat
  • "If a dish is a success then you try to put it on the menu every night.
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

bowl ·  plate ·  cake ·  meal ·  pan ·  basket ·  jar ·  slice ·  meat ·  pie ·  soup ·  tray

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dish:   dishes ·  dished ·  dishing

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  1. Middle English, from Old English disc, from Latin discus; see disk.

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  1. from Middle English dissh, disch, from Anglo-Saxon disc, a dish, plate, = Old Saxon disk, a table, = Middle Dutch, Dutch disch = Middle Low German disk, disch, Low German disch = Old High German tisc, disc, Middle High German tisch, disch, also tis, dis, G. tisch, a table, = Icelandic diskr, a dish, plate, = Swedish Danish disk, a dish, also a counter, = Old French dais, a table (later Middle English dees, English dais, q. v.), = Spanish Portuguese disco, a disk, quoit, = Italian disco, a disk, quoit, desco, a table, from Latin discus, a discus, disk, plate, dish, face of a sun-dial, Middle Latin also (with variant descus) a table, dais, desk, pulpit, from Greek δίσκος, a discus, disk, dish, trencher, plate. From the same source are disk, disc, desk, and dais, which are thus doublets of dish.
  2. = German tischen, serve the table, sit at table; cf. Old Danish diske, go to dinner, Danish diske (op), dish or serve (up), = Swedish diska, wash dishes; from the noun.
 

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