dish

Everyday

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 →

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 Jewish tradition

In the Torah, dishes are the gold plates of the Tabernacle table, and the silver dishes the princes brought to dedicate the altar.

Interpretation. The dedication gifts of the twelve princes, each with a silver dish, are read as showing the tribes' equal share in the sanctuary.

Examples

• And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and the pans thereof, and the jars thereof, and the bowls thereof, wherewith to pour out; of pure gold shalt thou make them. (Torah EXO.25.29, JPS 1917) tree →
• This was the dedication-offering of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, at the hands of the princes of Israel: twelve silver dishes, twelve silver basins, twelve golden pans; (Torah NUM.7.84, JPS 1917) tree →
• each silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and each basin seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; (Torah NUM.7.85, JPS 1917) tree →
• The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish; it wearieth him to bring it back to his mouth. (Writings PRO.26.15, JPS 1917) tree →
• The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, and will not so much as bring it back to his mouth. (Writings PRO.19.24, JPS 1917) tree →
• And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. (Prophets 2KI.21.13, JPS 1917) 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.