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Dish vs Snack - What's the difference?

dish | snack |

As nouns the difference between dish and snack

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 snack is a light meal.

As verbs the difference between dish and snack

is that dish is to put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food while snack is to eat a light meal.

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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    snack

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A light meal.
  • An item of food eaten between meals.
    • Derived terms
    * snack bar * snack food * snacker * snackette * snackery * snackless * snacky
    See also
    * munchies

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to eat a light meal
  • to eat between meals
    • Derived terms
    * snack down

    Etymology 2

    See snatch (transitive verb).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • At last he whispers, "Do, and we go snacks ."
    (Webster 1913)

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