dishとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English dissh, disch, from 古期英語 disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”), from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos.

発音

• enPR: dĭsh, IPA^(key): /dɪʃ/
• 韻: -ɪʃ

名詞

dish (複数形 dishes)

1. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Judges v:25:

     She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

   Synonym: plate

2. The contents of such a vessel.

   a dish of stew

   Synonyms: dishful, plate, plateful

3. (metonymically) A specific type of prepared food.

   a vegetable dish

   this dish is filling and easily made

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     Let's carve him a dish fit for the gods

4. (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.

5. (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.

   satellite dish

   radar dish

6. (slang) A sexually attractive person.
   • 1993, Westwood Studios, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, Virgin Games:

     Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish!

   Synonyms: babe, fox

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

   the dish of a wheel

8. A hollow place, as in a field.
9. (baseball, slang) The home plate.
   • 2008, Paul Byrd, Free Byrd: The Power of a Liberated Life (page 4)

     He said, "I don't like your chances at the dish [home plate] tonight."

   • 2009, Loren Long, ‎Phil Bildner, Magic in the Outfield (page 40)

     At the plate, Graham pounded the dish three times, just like Bubbles did whenever he was up, […]

   • 2014, Conor Kelley, The Catcher's Handbook (page 87)

     Also, if you end up getting to the baseball, your pitcher needs to be covering home plate, which pitchers occasionally forget to do. However, if the ball stays near the dish and you have a pitcher on the mound who isn't a space-case, you've got a good shot to get the runner out.

10. (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
11. (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
12. (slang) Gossip.

派生語

派生した語

• Tok Pisin: dis

動詞

dish (三人称単数 現在形 dishes, 現在分詞 dishing, 過去形および過去分詞形 dished)

2. (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
3. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
4. (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.

   to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes

5. (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

派生語

• dish out
• dish the dirt
• dish up

参考

• plate