Dish vs Ladle - What's the difference?
dish | ladle | Synonyms |
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)
A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
* Boyle
A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.
The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board.
An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
to serve something with a ladle
Dish is a synonym of ladle.
As an abbreviation dish
is .As a noun ladle is
a deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.As a verb ladle is
to serve something with a ladle.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
Derived terms
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* * 1000 English basic wordsladle
English
Noun
(en noun)- When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen take off with ladles .