The difference between Dish and Fox
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 fox means a red fox, small carnivore (vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.
When used as verbs, dish means to put in a dish or dishes, whereas fox means to trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
check bellow for the other definitions of Dish and Fox
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Dish as a noun:
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
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Dish as a noun:
The contents of such a vessel.
Examples:
"a dish of stew"
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Dish as a noun (metonym):
A specific type of prepared food.
Examples:
"a vegetable dish'"
"this dish is filling and easily made"
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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."
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Dish as a noun (telecommunication):
A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
Examples:
"satellite dish'"
"radar dish'"
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Dish as a noun (slang):
A sexually attractive person.
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Dish as a noun:
The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
Examples:
"the dish of a wheel"
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Dish as a noun:
A hollow place, as in a field.
Examples:
"rfquotek Ogilvie"
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Dish as a noun (mining):
A trough in which ore is measured.
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Dish as a noun (mining):
That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
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Dish as a noun (slang):
Gossip
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Dish as a verb (transitive):
To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
Examples:
"The restaurant dished up a delicious Italian brunch''."
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Dish as a verb (informal, slang):
To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
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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"
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Dish as a verb (slang, archaic, transitive):
To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
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Fox as a noun:
A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.
Examples:
"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
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Fox as a noun:
Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox).
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Fox as a noun:
The fur of a fox.
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Fox as a noun:
A fox terrier.
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Fox as a noun:
The , a fish, , so called from its yellow color.
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Fox as a noun:
A cunning person.
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Fox as a noun (slang):
A physically attractive man or woman.
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Fox as a noun (nautical):
A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
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Fox as a noun (mechanics):
A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
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Fox as a noun (cartomancy):
The fourteenth Lenormand card.
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Fox as a noun (obsolete):
A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
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Fox as a verb (transitive):
To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
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Fox as a verb (transitive):
To confuse or baffle (someone).
Examples:
"This crossword puzzle has completely foxed me."
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Fox as a verb (intransitive):
To act slyly or craftily.
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Fox as a verb (intransitive):
To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity.
Examples:
"The pages of the book show distinct foxing."
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Fox as a verb (transitive):
To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
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Fox as a verb (intransitive):
To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
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Fox as a verb (transitive):
To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
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Fox as a verb (transitive):
To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.