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Dish Out

Definition: Dish Out

Dish Out

Verb

1. Administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone".

2. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Dish Out

Synonyms: administer (v), allot (v), deal (v), deal out (v), dish (v), dish up (v), dispense (v), distribute (v), dole out (v), lot (v), mete out (v), parcel out (v), serve (v), serve up (v), shell out (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dish Out

Specialty definitions using "dish out": Hungr. (references)

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Modern Usage: Dish Out

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It looks like a dish out of Oliver Twist (California Suite; writing credit: Neil Simon)

Lyrics

She can take what I dish out, and that's not easy, (She's a Lady; performing artist: Tom Jones)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Dish Out

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Ma put the clean dripping tin dish out on a box.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Dish Out

Expression using "dish out": To dish out. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dish Out

Language Translations for "dish out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shpërndaj (allocate, allot, apportion, bestrew, broadcast, clear, deal, deliver, deploy, diffuse, disband, disembody, dish, dispel, dispense, disperse, disseminate, dissolve, distribute, diversify, give out, give rise to, hand out, intersperse, ladle, lay, lay out, mete, part, put out, scatter, share, shed, whiffle, wipe). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وزع الطعام, ‏خدم (act, attend, be in service, further, ladle, serve out, tend, wait, wait on). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

раздавам небрежно, раздавам безразборно (ladle out). (various references)

   

Czech

  

servírovat (dish up, give, serve), nešetřit. (various references)

   

French

  

distribuer les plats, servir (dish up). (various references)

   

German

  

zumessen (allocate, apportion, attribute, measure out), verteilen (allocate, allot, deal, deal out, deploy, dispense, disperse, distribute, divide, divide out, give away, give out, hand out, hand round, intersperse, lay out, quarter, scatter, separate, serve out, share, share out, spread, sprinkle, string out, to allot, to dispense, to distribute, to spread (out)), austeilen (administer, allot, deal, dispense, distribute, hand out, hand round, issue, parcel, to allot, to dispense, to give out, to hand out). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לחלק אוכל. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kiadagol (to dish out, to divide up, to dose out). (various references)

   

Italian

  

servire (answer, attend, attend to, attendant, avail, be a steady customer, be of use, boy, deal, dish, handle, help, make use, operate, servant, serve, to serve, use, wait). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ishday outay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

repartir (allocate, allot, apportion, deal, deal out, dispense, distribute, divide, dole, mete, part, portion, separate, share, slice, whack). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

împãrţi mâncarea în farfurii. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

выгибаться, выгибать (incurve), подавать (dish up, feed, filed, hand in, present, send up, serve, serve upon, serve with, served on, served upon, submit, submits, submitting, supply), делать впадину. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

deliti (dish, dish up, distribute, divide, double up, separate, share). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

repartir de (assess, ladle, mete out). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dela ut (deal out, deliver, give away, hand out, issue, parcel, parcel out). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yutturmak (con, deceive, diddle, fob, fob off smth. on smb., foist, palm off, plant, put across, put off, put over, string), yalan atmak, servis yapmak (dish, dish up, help smb. to smth., serve, serve up, wait, wait at table, wait on), cezalandırmak (castigate, chastise, cop it, correct, crime, discipline, give smb. gyp, penalize, plague, punish, sconce, scourge, slate, smirk). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dish Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-h-i-o-s-t-u"

-1 letter: dhotis, dhutis, studio.

-2 letters: dhoti, dhuti, doits, duits, hoist, odist, shout, south, thous, thuds.

-3 letters: dish, dits, doit, dost, doth, dots, duit, duos, dust, hist, hits, hods, host, hots, huts, ouds, oust, outs, shod, shot, shut, sith, soth, stud, suit, thio, this, thou, thud, thus, tods, tosh, tuis, tush, udos.

-4 letters: dis, dit, dos.

 Words containing the letters "d-h-i-o-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: hideouts.

 

+2 letters: dishclout, doughiest, lustihood, outchides, outfished, outshined, outwished, whodunits.

 

+3 letters: authorised, dishclouts, distichous, doughtiest, drouthiest, lustihoods, mistouched, outlandish, whodunnits.

 

+4 letters: dichotomous, discotheque, doughtiness, droughtiest, mustachioed, silhouetted.

 

+5 letters: discotheques, doublethinks, droughtiness, hebetudinous, housetrained, outlandishly, withoutdoors.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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