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.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.

*

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A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.

* Shakespeare

Let his lack of years be no impediment.

* 1994 , (Green Day),

I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.''

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