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Dish

A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

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Verb group 4

Help 84% connected

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

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Help 84% connected

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

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Serve 84% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

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Serve 84% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

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Broader term 17

Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Aliment 76% connected

That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: suste…

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Alimentation 76% connected

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

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Cater 76% connected

A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

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Container 76% connected

One who, or that which, contains.

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Crockery 76% connected

Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Nourishment 76% connected

The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition.

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Nutriment 76% connected

That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.

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Nutrition 76% connected

In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in i…

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Ply 76% connected

To bend.

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Shape 76% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Sustenance 76% connected

The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.

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Victuals 76% connected

Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

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Narrower term 40

Barbecue 76% connected

A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

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Boat 76% connected

A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

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Bowl 76% connected

A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

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Cake 76% connected

A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

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Casserole 76% connected

A small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain.

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Chili 76% connected

A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum

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Couscous 76% connected

A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.

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Croquette 76% connected

minced cooked meats (or vegetables) in thick white sauce; breaded and deep-fried

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Curry 76% connected

To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

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Custard 76% connected

A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.

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Entremets 76% connected

A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.

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Galantine 76% connected

A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold.

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Haggis 76% connected

A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in…

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Hash 76% connected

That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.

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Kabob 76% connected

See Cabob, n. & v. t.

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Mold 76% connected

A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Mould 76% connected

Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

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Omelet 76% connected

Eggs beaten up with a little flour, etc., and cooked in a frying pan; as, a plain omelet.

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Patty 76% connected

A little pie.

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Pilau 76% connected

See Pillau.

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Poi 76% connected

A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.

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Porridge 76% connected

A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley…

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Potpie 76% connected

A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.

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Pudding 76% connected

A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.

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Ramekin 76% connected

See Ramequin.

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Ramequin 76% connected

A mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or served on bread.

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Rarebit 76% connected

A dainty morsel; a Welsh rabbit. See Welsh rabbit, under Rabbit.

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Risotto 76% connected

A kind of pottage.

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Rissole 76% connected

A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried.

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Roulade 76% connected

A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.

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Salad 76% connected

A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving…

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Sauerkraut 76% connected

Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, -- a German dish.

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Saute 76% connected

An assault.

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Souffle 76% connected

A murmuring or blowing sound; as, the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus.

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Soup 76% connected

A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth.

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Special 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or sort.

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Stew 76% connected

A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.

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Succotash 76% connected

Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.

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Turnover 76% connected

The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage.

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Viand 76% connected

An article of food; provisions; food; victuals; -- used chiefly in the plural.

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Manner of action 1

Plank 76% connected

A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.

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Derivationally related 2

Serve 74% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

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Serve 74% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

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Component part 3

Ingredient 70% connected

That which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any combination or mixture; an element; a constituent.

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Sauce 70% connected

A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint…

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Topping 70% connected

of Top

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Containing whole 2

Meal 70% connected

A part; a fragment; a portion.

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Repast 70% connected

The act of taking food.

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Synonym 12

Bag 92% connected

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

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Beauty 92% connected

An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the aesthetic faculty, or the moral sense.

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Dishful 92% connected

As much as a dish holds when full.

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Looker 92% connected

One who looks.

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Mantrap 92% connected

A trap for catching trespassers.

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Peach 92% connected

To accuse of crime; to inform against.

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Ravisher 92% connected

One who ravishes (in any sense).

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Saucer 92% connected

A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.

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Serve 92% connected

To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

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Smasher 92% connected

One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

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Stunner 92% connected

One who, or that which, stuns.

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Sweetheart 92% connected

A lover of mistress.

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