(n.) A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
(n.) The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."
(n.) The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
(n.) A hollow place, as in a field.
(n.) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.
(n.) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
(v. t.) To put in a dish, ready for the table.
(v. t.) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
(v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(2) The menu has mainly Russian dishes but there are British and French influences too.
(3) The densities of hepatocytes attained with PVF were about 10 times as high as those in the monolayer culture using conventional collagen coated Petri dishes.
(4) The teflon dish is re-usable, resistant to sterilization procedures, and easy to assemble.
(5) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
(6) Human melanocyte cultures were established using disaggregated epidermal cell suspensions derived from foreskins and plated onto culture dishes in medium containing 2% fetal bovine serum, growth factors, hormones, and melanocyte growth factor (MGF) extracted from bovine hypothalamus (Wilkins et al., J.Cell.
(7) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.
(8) Culture dishes precoated with thin layers of acid soluble rat tail collagen simplify conditions necessary to obtain in vitro high IgG anti-DNP responses from primed and boosted mice.
(9) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(10) And on those occasions where I'm in the mood to take the wine pairing very seriously it's the vegetable dishes that require the most creative thought.
(11) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(12) Confluent monolayers of the fibroblasts were grown in petri dishes.
(13) To obtain the subcellular fractions, cell monolayers or cells previously detached from the culture dish were treated with non-ionic detergent N onidet P-40.
(14) Thus, human peripheral T lymphocytes coated with mouse monoclonal antibodies directed against the CD4 marker may be selectively and reproducibly removed from a lymphocyte population by a short incubation in modified plastic dishes coated with rabbit anti-mouse IgG antibody.
(15) The division block is independent of cell density in suspension culture and is not prevented by cell contact when cells grow attached to Petri dishes.
(16) Keratinocytes were plated onto tissue culture dishes using one of three basic serum-free media protocols; a) with no feeder layer in keratinocyte growth medium (KGM); b) onto mitomycin C-treated 3T3 mouse embryo fibroblasts; or c) onto mitomycin C-treated dermal human fibroblasts.
(17) Wide-eyed, tentative and much given to confidences – her voice falls to an eager whisper when she's really dishing – she seems far younger than her years.
(18) Moving away from home and discovering oats (not a common ingredient in Transylvanian food), I thought about mixing the cultures and came up with this savoury breakfast or lunch dish.
(19) Trypsinized epidermal cells were plated at nonconfluent concentrations in dishes coated with a collagen type I gel.
(20) We cultured thymic cells derived from various mouse strains on extracellular matrix coated tissue culture dishes, in the presence of conditioned medium.
Patina
Definition:
(n.) A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.
(n.) The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Frequent antisemitic raids undermined Vishneva’s patina of autonomy.
(2) It’s all, says the chancellor, George Osborne, “part of our long-term plan to secure Britain’s future.” To an idiot such as myself, it looks like part of a long-term plan to secure the future of Patina Rail LLP.
(3) That may indeed exist below the democratic patina of these declarations.
(4) But a patina of menace soon becomes apparent as you read the details and digest the implications.
(5) But it also brought together a fractured nation, promoted Mr Hoff – with his illuminated leather jacket and walnut patina – to a symbol of all the west had to offer and now, 25 years later, provides the mercilessly frequent music accompaniment to this one-(H)off documentary commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall.
(6) The Knights Templar group, which evolved out of a split from another drug gang, La Familia , has grown into the state's most powerful mafia, draped in a patina of religiosity and insurgent rebellion.
(7) What it may do, should a consensus be reached, is give momentum and a patina of success to an otherwise lustreless conference.
(8) He acknowledged Cameron's prime ministerial patina, his perceived "strength", but sought to turn it against him: "He may be strong at standing up to the weak, but he's always weak when it comes to standing up to the strong."
(9) "All those patinas fit better on a person like me."
(10) Scraping away at the green patina on the new-look, Zac Goldsmith-inspired Conservative environmental policies, puncturing Brown's grumpy greenery and unpicking the carbon contortions of the coal-loving Celts.
(11) The education provided by industry, coated in a patina of self-regulation, has been shown to be biased.
(12) The speech announcing his decision gave it a philosophical patina, as Trump returned to the “America first” theme of his inaugural address, describing the world as a site of Hobbesian, dog-eat-dog competition in which global cooperation is for wimps and suckers.
(13) The only way to completely remove a scratch in a piece of furniture is to sand the surrounding timber down to the same level as the scratch, but this can destroy the finish, patina and character of a piece of furniture and is hard, time-consuming work.
(14) David Bandurski, of Hong Kong University's China media project, said the new commentaries, with their "patina of moral decadence", were "helping to whip up an atmosphere where it's easier to tackle social media … It's part of a general campaign to put more pressure on microblogs".
(15) It is, however, now clear that David Cameron’s one-time “ vote blue, go green ” pitch in opposition was no more than verdigris, a patina rapidly scratched off by the grind of being in government.
(16) If Patina Rail LLP makes a mess of running the service, it’s not hard to see who’ll be expected to pick up the pieces.