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- adjective shaped like a dish or pan
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Examples
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Lateness was less a discourtesy than a cause for worry: had dish-shaped craters begun to sprout in city roads?
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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The highway ran straight as a bullet's flight, broken by a dish-shaped crater nine miles to the west.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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Data from Spirit indicated that a brake on the motor that rotates the rover's dish-shaped high-gain antenna was not working correctly.
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Satellite TV is much easier to use, given the proper dish-shaped antenna and decoding equipment.
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Several huge, dish-shaped structures stood high on stilts at its apex, and cylinders the height of a person stood near the packet line junction.
The Sky Inside Clare B. Dunkle 2008
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Several huge, dish-shaped structures stood high on stilts at its apex, and cylinders the height of a person stood near the packet line junction.
The Sky Inside Clare B. Dunkle 2008
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And in the heart of this Abubis indentation—in theexact center of the summit and thus the center of the entire pyramid—there was a small dish-shaped hole the size of a tennis ball.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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And in the heart of this Abubis indentation—in theexact center of the summit and thus the center of the entire pyramid—there was a small dish-shaped hole the size of a tennis ball.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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And in the heart of this Abubis indentation—in theexact center of the summit and thus the center of the entire pyramid—there was a small dish-shaped hole the size of a tennis ball.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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The landscape was gently concave; with the exception of tower and hill there were no points on which late rays might linger; and hence the dish-shaped ninety acres of tilled land assumed a uniform hue of shade quite suddenly.
Two on a Tower 2006
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