Diet vs Dish - What's the difference?
diet | dish |
(senseid)The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
(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.
(countable) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
*, I.iii.1.2:
* Spenser
To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
(obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) To cause to take food; to feed.
* Othello
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
* Bible, Judges v. 25
The contents of such a vessel.
A specific type of prepared food.
* Shakespeare
(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.
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.
A hollow place, as in a field.
(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.
To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
(informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
(slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
(Webster 1913)
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)- The diet of the Giant Panda consists mainly of bamboo.
- He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
Derived terms
* dietarian * dietary * dieter * dieteticsVerb
(en verb)- they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
- She diets him with fasting every day.
- I've been dieting for six months, and have lost some weight.
- Let himdiet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.
- But partly led to diet my revenge […].
Anagrams
* edit * tide * tied ----dish
English
(wikipedia dish)Noun
(es)- She brought forth butter in a lordly dish .
- a dish of stew
- a vegetable dish
- this dish is filling and easily made
- a dish fit for the gods
- It's your turn to wash the dishes .
- the dish of a wheel
- (Ogilvie)
Synonyms
* (vessel) plate * (contents) dishful, plate, plateful * (sexually attractive person) babe, foxDerived 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 dishSee also
* plateVerb
(es)- The restaurant dished up a delicious Italian brunch .
- to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes