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核心畫面

Picture a shallow, round, open container with low sides — a plate or serving dish you put food into. That flat open shape is where the word starts; everything else is either that shape, or the food that sits in it.

可以想成一個淺淺、圓圓、邊很低的開口容器——放菜、盛食物的那種盤子。這個「扁圓開口」的形狀是這個字的起點，其他用法不…更多收起可以想成一個淺淺、圓圓、邊很低的開口容器——放菜、盛食物的那種盤子。這個「扁圓開口」的形狀是這個字的起點，其他用法不是延伸這個形狀，就是延伸「裝在裡面的食物」。

From the word’s history

From Old English disc 'plate, bowl', borrowed from Latin discus 'disc, platter' (from Greek diskos) — the same root as disc/disk/desk. The round flat plate is the original.

來自古英文 disc（盤、碗），借自拉丁文 discus（圓盤、盤子，源自希臘文 diskos）——和 disc/disk/desk 同源。最早比較像那個圓扁的盤子。

etymonline.com/word/dish; etymonline.com/word/discus

From the picture

一道菜（盤裡的食物）

從容器跳到裡面的內容：既然菜都盛在盤子上端出來，久了就用「盤」來指那道被端上桌的食物本身，再引申出跟「端菜、上菜」有關的用法。

food dish · noun · A2

One prepared food, cooked in a particular way, that is served at a meal.

菜餚／一道菜

Also in this word

serving dish · noun · A2

A flat, open container with low sides, used to serve food or to cook food in.

盤子／烤皿

dish-shaped object · noun · A2

An object that has the round, shallow shape of a dish.

碟形物

dirty dishes · noun · A2

All the plates, cups, bowls and other things you have used for a meal and need to wash.

碗盤（待洗）

原始詞典資料19 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

dishnoun/dɪʃ/

  • 1

    A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.

    • She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
  • 2

    The contents of such a vessel.

    • a dish of stew
  • 3

    A specific type of prepared food.

    • a vegetable dish
    • this dish is filling and easily made
  • 4

    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

    communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringA type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.

    • satellite dish
    • radar dish
  • 6

    datedinformalSomething that fits someone's tastes, interests, or abilities.

    • Going to the club is not my dish.
    • Literacy is not every man’s dish. A teacher trying to persuade Arab men in North Africa to let their wives learn to read so that they can write letters was pointedly asked by one husband: “To whom?”
  • 7

    slangA sexually attractive person.

    • quite a dish
    • Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish!
  • 8

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

    • the dish of a wheel
另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A hollow place, as in a field.

    • As I topped the ridge I missed my first shot at a sharptail that flushed from a grassy dish.
    • He and Stratemeier raced across the flats and dropped into the canyon, climbed swiftly through it and came out at the topside trail , which went straight south through the timber until it dropped into a small grassy dish surrounded by rock peaks.
  • 10

    slangball-gamesbaseballgamesThe home plate.

    • He said, "I don't like your chances at the dish [home plate] tonight."
    • At the plate, Graham pounded the dish three times, just like Bubbles did whenever he was up, […]
  • 11

    archaicbusinessminingA trough in which ore is measured.

  • 12

    archaicbusinessminingThat portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

  • 13

    slangGossip.

    • We've been a very lucky community: We've had GCN to collect our deep dish and write it up as political discourse. GCN is not just another clipboard of polite press releases. GCN is the sticky questions, the sweet moments, and the dirty stories that make up our lives.

dishverb/dɪʃ/

  • 1

    To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.

  • 2

    slanginformalTo gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.

  • 3

    slangTo insult, speak ill of.

    • In the car with you I heard Joe's voice ― complaining about how invisible black people still are to whites; praising artists we admire; dishing someone's bad taste; planning future adventures; […]
  • 4

    To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.

    • to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
  • 5

    archaicslangTo frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

    • Have the Tories "dished the Whigs"?

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。