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Definition: Dish Out |
Dish OutVerb1. 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 OutSynonyms: 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) |
Crosswords: Dish Out |
| Specialty definitions using "dish out": Hungr. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma put the clean dripping tin dish out on a box. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "dish out": To dish out. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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