[dɪʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a shallow, flat-bottomed container for cooking or serving food
(e.g: an ovenproof dish)

- a shallow, concave receptacle, especially one intended to hold a particular substance
(e.g: the cats' water dish)

- a sexually attractive person
(e.g: I gather he's quite a dish)

- information which is not generally known or available
(e.g: if he has the real dish I wish he'd tell us)

- concavity of a spoked wheel resulting from a difference in spoke tension on each side and consequent sideways displacement of the rim in relation to the hub


Phrases:
- dish it out
- dish the dirt

Origin:
Old English disc ‘plate, bowl’ (related to Dutch dis, German Tisch ‘table’), based on Latin discus (see discus)

[dɪʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- gossip or share information, especially information of an intimate or scandalous nature
(e.g: groups gather to brag about babies and dish about romances)

- utterly destroy, confound, or defeat
(e.g: the election interview dished Labour's chances)

- give concavity to (a wheel) by tensioning the spokes
(e.g: I don't think I dished the wheel correctly—there's a rubbing sound)


Phrases:
- dish it out
- dish the dirt

Origin:
Old English disc ‘plate, bowl’ (related to Dutch dis, German Tisch ‘table’), based on Latin discus (see discus)