dish

noun13

1. •
   A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.

   • She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. — 1611
2. •
   [in the plural] Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.

   • It's your turn to wash the dishes.
3. •
   a kind of food made ready to eat, such as a soup, a pie or a pizza

   • this dish is filling and easily made
4. •
   A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
5. •
   The contents of such a vessel.
6. •
   (slang) A sexually attractive person.

   • Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish! — 1993
7. •
   (slang) Gossip.
8. •
   The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
9. •
   A hollow place, as in a field.

   • As I topped the ridge I missed my first shot at a sharptail that flushed from a grassy dish. — 1980
10. •
    (informal, old-fashioned) Something that fits someone's tastes, interests, or abilities.

    • Going to the club is not my dish.
11. •
    (slang) The home plate.

    • He said, "I don't like your chances at the dish [home plate] tonight." — 2008
12. •
    (no longer used) A trough in which ore is measured.
13. •
    (no longer used) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

verb5

1. •
   To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
2. •
   (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
3. •
   (slang) To insult, speak ill of.

   • In the car with you I heard Joe's voice ― complaining about how invisible black people still are to whites; praising artists we admire; dishing someone's bad taste; planning future adventures; […] — 1989
4. •
   To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
5. •
   (slang, no longer used) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

   • Have the Tories "dished the Whigs"? — 1867

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.