Dish

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Dish may refer to:

• The literal meaning: dishware, plates and bowls used for serving and eating food
  • Dish (food), a prepared part of a meal which would normally be served on a single plate, i.e., literally a dish
• The Dish, a 2000 Australian film

• Satellite dish, a dish used to receive or transmit radio, television or data
  • Dish Network, a satellite TV provider
    • DISH, Texas, a town in Texas named after Dish Network
• Assist (basketball), a pass directly leading to a score
• Camp (style), a part of which is dishing, a conversational style including retorts, vicious putdowns, and/or malicious gossip
• A sexy or appealing person
• The offset, parallel to the axle, of a wire wheel, especially of a rear bicycle wheel, of the rim with respect to the hub flanges.

The acronym DISH may stand for:

• Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, a main cause of spinal stenosis
• DisH, Distributed Shared Hosting
• Digital Image Screen Halftoning, describing a method of Wavelet Transform preprocessing