dish

«dish» in Mova's school dictionary: a shallow bowl or plate for serving or cooking food — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a dish, dishes); verb (dish, dishes, dished, dishing) in "dish up", "dish out"

meaning for a pupil

1) A dish is a shallow bowl or plate for serving or cooking food. tree →

2) The dishes are all the plates, bowls, cups and cutlery used for a meal that need washing. tree →

3) A dish is food cooked in a certain way, like a meal from a menu. tree →

4) A satellite dish is a round bowl-shaped object that receives signals. tree →

5) To dish up or dish out is to put food onto plates or give things out to people. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life children help to wash, dry or put away the dishes. In science, a petri dish holds tiny living things grown in a lab; a satellite dish catches TV signals. In stories and cooking, a dish is a meal: a favourite dish, a national dish. Phrases: do the dishes, wash the dishes, side dish, main dish, dish up dinner, dish out.

examples

• Can you help me do the dishes after dinner? tree →
• Put the dish in the oven for twenty minutes. tree →
• Pasta is my favourite dish. tree →
• Fish and chips is a famous British dish. tree →
• Grandpa dished up the soup. tree →
• The scientist grew mould in a petri dish. tree →
• A satellite dish is on our roof. tree →
• Aunt Em was washing the dishes. tree →

note

Plural dishes, with -es. "Do the dishes" means wash all the plates, cups and pans, not only dishes. Hot dishes from the oven need oven gloves. "Dish out" can also mean give lots of something, like dish out advice.

In the corpora

• A shallow dish of water in hot weather helps birds, bees and hedgehogs; a stone in it lets insects climb out.
• In the middle is a dish of tarts that look so good that Alice wishes they'd hurry up and hand round the refreshments.
• Hedgehogs get ill from milk; a shallow dish of water or meaty cat food is safe for them.
• Use only microwave-safe dishes: metal, foil and gold rims make sparks and can start a fire.
• Dishes should be dried with a clean dry towel, because dishes put away wet can go mouldy.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dish» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.