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diet | dish |

As abbreviations the difference between diet and dish

is that diet is (microbiology) while dish is .

diet

English

(wikipedia diet)

Alternative forms

* (rare)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (senseid)The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
  • The diet of the Giant Panda consists mainly of bamboo.
  • (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
  • By extension, any habitual intake or consumption.
  • He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
  • (countable) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
  • Derived terms

    * dietarian * dietary * dieter * dietetics

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  • *, I.iii.1.2:
  • they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
  • * Spenser
  • She diets him with fasting every day.
  • To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
  • I've been dieting for six months, and have lost some weight.
  • (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Let himdiet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.
  • (obsolete) To cause to take food; to feed.
  • * Othello
  • But partly led to diet my revenge […].

    Anagrams

    * edit * tide * tied ----

    dish

    English

    (wikipedia dish)

    Noun

    (es)
  • A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
  • * Bible, Judges v. 25
  • She brought forth butter in a lordly dish .
  • The contents of such a vessel.
  • a dish of stew
  • A specific type of prepared food.
  • a vegetable dish
    this dish is filling and easily made
  • * Shakespeare
  • a dish fit for the gods
  • (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 .
  • a type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl, as in satellite dish'', ''radar dish
  • (slang) A sexually attractive person.
  • The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
  • the dish of a wheel
  • A hollow place, as in a field.
  • (Ogilvie)
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (vessel) plate * (contents) dishful, plate, plateful * (sexually attractive person) babe, fox

    Derived terms

    * chafing dish * covered-dish * deep-dish * dish aerial * dish antenna * dish out * dish pig * dish the dirt * dish towel * dish up * dishcloth * dished * dishy * do the dishes * gratin dish * Petri dish * satellite dish * serving dish * side dish

    See also

    * plate

    Verb

    (es)
  • To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
  • The restaurant dished up a delicious Italian brunch .
  • (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
  • To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
  • to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
  • (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * *