1. [n]  an activity that you like or at which you are superior; "chemistry is not my cup of tea"; "his bag now is learning to play golf"; "marriage was scarcely his dish"
2. [n]  a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food; "we gave them a set of dishes for a wedding present"
3. [n]  directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
4. [n]  
5. [n]  a very attractive or seductive looking woman
6. [n]  the quantity that a dish will hold; "they served me a dish of rice"
7. [v]  make concave; shape like a dish
8. [v]  provide (usually but not necessarily food); "We serve meals for the homeless"; "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M."; "The entertainers served up a lively show"

1. \Dish\, n. [AS. disc, L. discus dish, disc, quoit, fr. Gr.
   ? quoit, fr. ? to throw. Cf. {Dais}, {Desk}, {Disc},
   {Discus}.]
   1. A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving
      up food at the table.
   
            She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. --Judg.
                                                  v. 25.
   
   2. The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of
      food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. ``A
      dish fit for the gods.'' --Shak.
   
            Home-home dishes that drive one from home. --Hood.
   
   3. The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree
      of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
   
   4. A hollow place, as in a field. --Ogilvie.
   
   5. (Mining)
      (a) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in
          which ore is measured.
      (b) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to
          the land owner or proprietor.
   
   

2. \Dish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dished}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Dishing}.]
   1. To put in a dish, ready for the table.
   
   2. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish;
      as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
   
   3. To frustrate; to beat; to ruin. [Low]
   
   {To dish out}.
   
   1. To serve out of a dish; to distribute in portions at
      table.
   
   2. (Arch.) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.
   
   {To dish up}, to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc., and
      put in dishes to be served at table.
   
   

for eating from (2 Kings 21:13). Judas dipped his hand with a "sop" or piece of bread in the same dish with our Lord, thereby indicating friendly intimacy (Matt. 26:23). The "lordly dish" in Judg. 5:25 was probably the shallow drinking cup, usually of brass. In Judg. 6:38 the same Hebrew word is rendered "bowl."

The dishes of the tabernacle were made of pure gold (Ex. 25:29; 37:16).