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Dish vs Recipe - What's the difference?

dish | recipe |

As nouns the difference between dish and recipe

is that dish is a vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle while recipe is a formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.

As a verb dish

is to put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.

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

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    Anagrams

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    recipe

    English

    (wikipedia recipe)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
  • Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
  • By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.}}
  • Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
  • A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.

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