dish out

English

Verb

dish out (third-person singular simple present dishes out, present participle dishing out, simple past and past participle dished out)

1. (transitive) To put (food) on to a dish ready for eating.
2. (transitive) To distribute (a thing).
3. (transitive, figuratively) To distribute or deliver something.

   She can dish out criticism but she can't take it.

4. (transitive, architecture) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.

Synonyms

• (food): dish up, serve
• (distribute): distribute, give out, hand out, hand round, pass out, pass round
• (figuratively): give out

Translations

to put (food) on to a dish

• Dutch: opdienen (nl), dienen (nl), dissen (nl) (only in very specific context or expressions, dis is an old word for dining table, so it literally means: put on the table), opdissen (nl) (only in very specific context or expressions)
• Finnish: tarjoilla (fi), annostella
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 大皿に盛る (おおざらにもる, ōzara ni moru)
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• Quechua: qaray
• Spanish: emplatar (es)

to distribute

• Finnish: tarjota (fi)
• Japanese: 取り分ける (とりわける, toriwakeru)
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• Romanian: distribui (ro)

figuratively

• Finnish: jakaa (fi), jaella (fi)
• Japanese: 配る (ja) (くばる, kubaru), 与える (ja) (あたえる, ataeru)
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• Romanian: împărți (ro)