Difference between Dish and Serve

What is the difference between Dish and Serve?

Dish as a noun is a vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. while Serve as a noun is the act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games

Dish

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. The contents of such a vessel. A specific type of prepared food. 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. a type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl, as in satellite dish, radar dish A sexually attractive woman. A sexually attractive person of either sex.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.

Example sentence: We say Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation.

Serve

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various gamesA portion of food, a serving

Part of speech: verb

Definition: 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, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired assistant, official helper, etc.To obey and worship.To be subordinate to; to act a secondary part under; to appear as the inferior of; to minister to.To be suitor to; to profess love to.To wait upon; to supply the wants of; to attend; specifically, to wait upon at table; to attend at meals; to supply with foodTo bring forward, arrange, deal, or distribute, as a portion of anything, especially of food prepared for eating; -- often with serve up; formerly with serve in.To perform the duties belonging to, or required in or for; hence, to be of use to.To contribute to or conduce to; to promote; to be sufficient for; to satisfyTo answer or be (in the place of something) to.To treat; to behave one's self to; to requite; to act toward.To work; to operate.To bring to notice, deliver, or execute, either actually or constructively, in such manner as the law requiresTo make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subpoena.To pass or spend, as time, esp. time of punishment; as, to serve a term in prison.To copulate with; to verb.To lead off with the first delivery (of the ball) over the net, as in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, etc.To wind spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. See under Serving.To be a servant or a slave; to be employed in labor or other business for another; to be in subjection or bondage; to render menial service.To perform domestic offices; to be occupied with household affairs; to prepare and dish up food, etc.To be in service; to do duty; to discharge the requirements of an office or employment. Specifically, to act in the public service, as a soldier, seaman. etc.To be of use; to answer a purpose; to suffice; to suit; to be convenient or favorable.

Example sentence: To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

We hope you now know whether to use Dish or Serve in your sentence.

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