Dish vs. Kish — What's the Difference?

A shallow, flat-bottomed container for cooking or serving food

A basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf

A shallow, concave receptacle, especially one intended to hold a particular substance

The graphite formed incidentally in iron smelting.

A sexually attractive person

A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.

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Concavity of a spoked wheel resulting from a difference in spoke tension on each side and consequent sideways displacement of the rim in relation to the hub.

Put food on to a plate or plates before a meal

Utterly destroy or defeat

Give concavity to (a wheel) by tensioning the spokes

An open, generally shallow concave container for holding, cooking, or serving food.

Dishes The containers and often the utensils used when eating

A shallow concave container used for purposes other than eating

The amount that a dish can hold.

The food served or contained in a dish

A particular variety or preparation of food

A depression similar to that in a shallow concave container for food.

The degree of concavity in such a depression.

(Electronics) A dish antenna.

(Slang) A good-looking person, especially an attractive woman.

(Informal) Idle talk; gossip

To serve (food) in or as if in a dish

To present

To hollow out; make concave.

(Informal) To gossip about.

Chiefly British Slang To ruin, foil, or defeat.

To talk idly, especially to gossip.

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

The contents of such a vessel.

(metonym) A specific type of prepared food.

(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.

(telecommunication) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.

(slang) A sexually attractive person.

The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.

A hollow place, as in a field.

The home plate.

(mining) A trough in which ore is measured.

(mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

Gossip.

(transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.

To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.

(transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.

To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food, especially prepared food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."

The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

A hollow place, as in a field.

A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.

Anything with a discoid and concave shape, like that of a dish.

An electronic device with a concave reflecting surface which focuses reflected radio waves to or from a point, used as a receiving or transmitting antenna; also called dish antenna. The dish is often shaped as a paraboloid so as to achieve a high sensitivity and enable reception of weak signals when used as a receiving antenna, or to focus transmitted signals into a narrow beam when used as a transmitting antenna.

A very attractive woman or young lady, especaially one sexually attractive; - sometimes considered offensive and sexist; as, the departmental secretary is quite a dish.

A favorite activity, or an activity at which one excels.

The quantity that a dish will hold, or a dish filled with some material.

To put in a dish, ready for the table.

To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.

To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.

To talk about (a person) in a disparaging manner; to gossip about (a person); as, the secretaries spent their break time dishing the newest employee.

A piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food;

A particular item of prepared food;

The quantity that a dish will hold;

A very attractive or seductive looking woman

Directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

An activity that you like or at which you are superior;

Provide (usually but not necessarily food);

Make concave; shape like a dish