What's the difference between dish and wish?

Dish


Definition:

  • (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.

Wish


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.
  • (v. t.) To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward.
  • (v. t.) To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate.
  • (v. t.) To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.
  • (n.) Desire; eager desire; longing.
  • (n.) Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation.
  • (n.) A thing desired; an object of desire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I wish to clarify that for the period 1998 to 2002 I was employed by Fifa to work on a wide range of matters relating to football,” Platini wrote.
  • (2) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
  • (3) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
  • (4) Following the hypothesis that infertile patients may present emotional conflicts with regard to the wish of having a child, psychodynamic interviews were carried out with 116 infertile couples concomitantly with their first consultation at the Sterility Department.
  • (5) Last November he bluntly warned EU chiefs he could, if he wished, “flood Europe” with refugees.
  • (6) But I don't wish to be too hard on the judge for not taking that view.
  • (7) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
  • (8) This search represents movement beyond the significance of infantile wish-fulfillment aspects of religiosity toward the broader domain of ego functioning and quality of object relations.
  • (9) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
  • (10) The content and dynamics of two 11-session psychotherapy groups led by physicians for 18 adult patients with insulin-dependent diabetes are described as a guide for others wishing to use this form of treatment.
  • (11) Management and treatment issues are surveyed, such as the necessity to recognize that in some adolescents violence erupts not from narcissitic rage but from strong wishes for affectionate contact.
  • (12) "Plymouth Argyle is a proper football club and I wish them well," said Hughton.
  • (13) Many cases before the commissioner remain unresolved, although those who wish to pursue matters to the tribunal as part of the transitional arrangements will not have to pay an additional fee to appeal to the tribunal.
  • (14) It is indispensable to establish a close cooperation between the public health authorities and the private physician, and we therefore wish to sincerely thank all colleagues and Public Health Officers for their collaboration.
  • (15) An accurate portrait of BLS and ACLS instructors is crucial for organizations such as the American Heart Association if they wish to attract and retain instructors.
  • (16) If you can't give them everything at once, you may be able to satisfy at least some of the items on their wish list.
  • (17) Despite fulfilling a boyhood wish to play for Milan when he returned to Italy, the striker admitted he erred in taking his career back to Serie A, having had a controversial spell at Internazionale before City recruited him for £17.5m in August 2010.
  • (18) We wish to thank once again all the Chinese people and people around the world who have supported Beijing 2022 in this extraordinary bid journey.” Earlier, the president Xi threw his weight behind China’s bid, promising the “strongest support” for the Beijing Games in a one-minute video address to the IOC delegates.
  • (19) Fitzgibbon notes that these documents had been tabled contrary to the wishes of the defence sub-commitee.
  • (20) Early work showed a relationship between these two molecules, which we wished to further document, in particular because of the growing realization of the functional importance of CD28 in some T cell activation pathways.