Examples of dish in a Sentence
Buddha Lo, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
In addition to a rotating menu of small-batch natural wines, there are unfussy dishes, often made from ingredients found in the nearby Lorenteggio Market, like potato salad and artichokes served with pecorino and Parmesan cream.
—Laura May Todd, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Fresh produce when our garden is producing, pasta dishes, meat and veggie dinners, and huge breakfasts with homemade biscuits on the weekends.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Apr. 2024
The trademark office has the ability to do World Wide Web searches and cite different examples of use, relating to generic names or cultural dishes.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 10 Apr. 2024
While a discerning wine list and note-perfect dishes are always key when selecting a restaurant for an intimate dinner, the ambience is also paramount.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2024
Once again, the congruence between pasta dish and fragrance was eerie.
—Molly Young, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
Diners can also order from the regular lineup of dishes, such as fish tacos or oysters.
—Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2024
My partner is great at doing his fair share, or even more, of the three daily tasks: dishes, laundry and the kids’ bath time (toddler and preschooler).
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2024
Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
Mayo scored 19 points on 5-of-11 shooting (4-of-6 from 3 and 5-of-5 from the line) and dished four assists in an 82-65 first-round NCAA Tournament loss to Iowa State last Thursday in Omaha, Nebraska.
—Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
Millie Bobby Brown Opens Up About Falling in Love with Fiancé Jake Bongiovi: 'Made Clear Sense to Me'
During a Feb. 29 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the Damsel actress dished on how Bongiovi, the son of rocker Jon Bon Jovi, made the proposal one to remember.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
Senior guard Isaiah Stevens was brilliant, scoring 15 points on 5-of-11 shooting while dishing seven assists, and Jalen Lake was nearly flawless off the bench with 16 points while hitting all three of his 3-point attempts.
—Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 14 Mar. 2024
Few credited Gonzaga point guard Ryan Nembhard for dishing 12 assists to five turnovers in 39 minutes.
—Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2024
But Terry Rozier responded with a driving layup, then stole the ball on the other end and dished to Duncan Robinson for a three.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
Rachel Taylor corralled the ball, burnt rubber up the sideline and dished a clean pass back to Awuah, who was sprinting up to the other basket for two.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2024
Off a Turner rebound, Kinney saved the ball from going out of bounds and dished a cross-court assist to freshman Amontae Lowe, who converted the layup and free throw for a 43-39 lead.
—Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 28 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Noun
Middle English dyssh, disch, going back to Old English disc, borrowed from Latin discus "discus, kind of plate, gong" borrowed from Greek dískos "discus," in Late Greek also "dish, round mirror, the sun's disk, gong" — more at discus
Note: In later imperial Latin (Apuleius's Metamorphoses, Ulpian), the word discus is found with the meaning "dish, platter," a fairly natural extension given the shape of a discus. This sense is continued in Late Latin, as in the Vulgate, where the head of John the Baptist is brought to Herodias's daughter "in disco." It is found as a borrowing in Celtic languages (Old Irish tesc "dish"; Old Welsh discl, Welsh dysgl "dish, platter," from a diminutive *disculus; Old Breton discou "dishes") and Germanic—in addition to Old English, Old High German tisc. In Romance and the continental Germanic languages, however, the sense "dish" was largely replaced by a new sense "table," perhaps because the small, round tables in use for serving approximated the function of dishes. In Medieval Latin this meaning of discus can be found from the late eighth century (Capitulare de villis). The etymon is well attested in Gallo-Romance and in northern and central Italy: Italian desco "dining table" (13th-century Tuscan, also in medieval Lombard), Old Occitan des, desc "table," Old French deis "table of honor set up on a platform" (see dais). In Germanic, compare Old Saxon disk "table," Middle Dutch disc, desc "dining table," Old High German tisc (the sense "table" effectively ousting "dish" by Middle High German). A final permutation of the Medieval Latin word was the sense "writing table, desk," attested in British sources as descus, desca (from the late 13th century—see s.v. discus in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources) and on the continent as discus (from the 12th or 13th century—see Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch); see desk.
Verb
Middle English disshen, verbal derivative of dyssh dish entry 1
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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“Dish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dish. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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