| dish | 1. To put in a dish, ready for the table. 2. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes. 3. To frustrate; to beat; to ruin. To dish out. 1. To serve out of a dish; to distribute in portions at table. 2. To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood. To dish up, to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc, and put in dishes to be served at table. Origin: Dished; Dishing. 1. A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table. "She brought forth butter in a lordly dish." (Judg. V. 25) 2. The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods." "Home-home dishes that drive one from home." (Hood) 3. The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel. 4. A hollow place, as in a field. 5. <chemical> A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured. That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor. Origin: AS. Disc, L. Discus dish, disc, quoit, fr. Gr. Quoit, fr. To throw. Cf. Dais, Desk, Disc, Discus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| dish face | A facial malformation characterised by protuberant forehead, depressed nose and maxilla, and prominent chin. Synonym: dish face. (05 Mar 2000) |
| disharmony | The state of being deranged or lacking in orderliness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| disheart | To dishearten. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dishearten | To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject. "Regiments . . . Utterly disorganised and disheartened." (Macaulay) Synonym: To dispirit, discourage, depress, deject, deter, terrify. Origin: Pref. Dis- + hearten. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| disheartenment | Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dishing | Dish-shaped; concave. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dishpan fracture | Regular cranial concavity in infants; may or may not be associated with fracture Synonym: dishpan fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dishwasher | 1. One who, or that which, washes dishes. 2. <zoology> A European bird; the wagtail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Petri dish | A small, shallow, circular dish made of thin glass or clear plastic with a loosely fitting, overlapping cover used especially in microbiology for the cultivation of microorganisms on solid media; it is frequently referred to as a plate. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Stender dish | A flat shallow vessel used in staining sections. (05 Mar 2000) |