Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Taking or having the form of a dish; concave; hollowing: as, a dishing wheel; the lay of the ground was slightly dishing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dish-shaped; concave.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
dish . - adjective Shaped like a
dish ;concave .
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Examples
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The truck will be at their regular Tuesday spot (38th & 5th Ave), but will begin dishing out the sweets a little later from 2 or 2: 30 and stay open until 5 or 5: 30.
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I have to admit I ` m unconvinced about the role of the state in dishing out growth.
The Witch Cooper Newmania 2007
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We have a lot of negative lingo: “comment spam” (which I excel in dishing out here), “stfu” (popular on quite a number of sites with Open Threads), “splogs,” “spam sites …”
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Mergers with metropolitan parties in London or Dublin are the product of wishful thinking, the dream of achieving the nirvanas of a secure Union or Irish unity by the back door - and in the short term dishing the Shinners or the DUP.
Irish Blogs 2008
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Mergers with metropolitan parties in London or Dublin are the product of wishful thinking, the dream of achieving the nirvanas of a secure Union or Irish unity by the back door - and in the short term dishing the Shinners or the DUP.
Slugger O'Toole 2008
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Mergers with metropolitan parties in London or Dublin are the product of wishful thinking, the dream of achieving the nirvanas of a secure Union or Irish unity by the back door - and in the short term dishing the Shinners or the DUP.
Irish Blogs 2008
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Mergers with metropolitan parties in London or Dublin are the product of wishful thinking, the dream of achieving the nirvanas of a secure Union or Irish unity by the back door - and in the short term dishing the Shinners or the DUP.
Slugger O'Toole 2008
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Mergers with metropolitan parties in London or Dublin are the product of wishful thinking, the dream of achieving the nirvanas of a secure Union or Irish unity by the back door - and in the short term dishing the Shinners or the DUP.
Slugger O'Toole 2008
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Mergers with metropolitan parties in London or Dublin are the product of wishful thinking, the dream of achieving the nirvanas of a secure Union or Irish unity by the back door - and in the short term dishing the Shinners or the DUP.
Slugger O'Toole 2008
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Think about movies like The Happening … it had a secret but people relished in dishing the secret to people who hadn’t seen it.
What do we know and when do we want to know it? at SF Novelists 2009
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