The difference between Dish and Dishful

When used as nouns, dish means a vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle, whereas dishful means as much as a dish will hold.


Dish is also verb with the meaning: to put in a dish or dishes.

check bellow for the other definitions of Dish and Dishful

  1. Dish as a noun:

    A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.

  2. Dish as a noun:

    The contents of such a vessel.

    Examples:

    "a dish of stew"

  3. Dish as a noun (metonym):

    A specific type of prepared food.

    Examples:

    "a vegetable dish'"

    "this dish is filling and easily made"

  4. Dish as a noun (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.

    Examples:

    "It's your turn to wash the dishes."

  5. Dish as a noun (telecommunication):

    A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.

    Examples:

    "satellite dish'"

    "radar dish'"

  6. Dish as a noun (slang):

    A sexually attractive person.

  7. Dish as a noun:

    The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.

    Examples:

    "the dish of a wheel"

  8. Dish as a noun:

    A hollow place, as in a field.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Ogilvie"

  9. Dish as a noun (mining):

    A trough in which ore is measured.

  10. Dish as a noun (mining):

    That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

  11. Dish as a noun (slang):

    Gossip

  1. Dish as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "The restaurant dished up a delicious Italian brunch''."

  2. Dish as a verb (informal, slang):

    To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.

  3. Dish as a verb (transitive):

    To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.

    Examples:

    "to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes"

  4. Dish as a verb (slang, archaic, transitive):

    To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

  1. Dishful as a noun:

    as much as a dish will hold

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