Dish vs. Meal — What's the Difference?

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

A meal is an eating occasion that takes place at a certain time and includes prepared food. The names used for specific meals in English vary, depending on the speaker's culture, the time of day, or the size of the meal.

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

The edible whole or coarsely ground grains of a cereal grass.

A sexually attractive person

A granular substance produced by grinding.

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The food served and eaten in one sitting.

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.

A customary time or occasion of eating food.

Put food on to a plate or plates before a meal

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Utterly destroy or defeat

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Give concavity to (a wheel) by tensioning the spokes

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

(countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).

Dishes The containers and often the utensils used when eating

(countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.

A shallow concave container used for purposes other than eating

A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.

The amount that a dish can hold.

(obsolete) A time or an occasion.

The food served or contained in a dish

The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.

A particular variety or preparation of food

A speck or spot.

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

A part; a fragment; a portion.

The degree of concavity in such a depression.

To yield or be plentiful in meal.

(Electronics) A dish antenna.

(transitive) To defile or taint.

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

A part; a fragment; a portion.

(Informal) Idle talk; gossip

The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.

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

Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.

To present

Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.

To hollow out; make concave.

To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.

(Informal) To gossip about.

To pulverize; as, mealed powder.

Chiefly British Slang To ruin, foil, or defeat.

The food served and eaten at one time

To talk idly, especially to gossip.

Any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times

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

Coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse

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