Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a dish or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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dish +‎ -like

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Examples

  • This caused a cascade of fine powder to rain down into a small dishlike container.

    Crystal Death Charles Kipps 2010

  • It runs through sedimentary rock scalloped from water wear (imagine the dishlike ripples on a wind-chopped lake, transposed to stone) and speckled with fossils, and there are veins and pipes of chert and calcite running through it.

    a day without a bruise is wasted. slash_girl 2008

  • The dishlike depression was splashed with deep crimson.

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • The nasal bones had all but disappeared, and the exposed frontal bone bore evidence of several shallow, dishlike compression fractures.

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • This caused a cascade of fine powder to rain down into a small dishlike container.

    Crystal Death Charles Kipps 2010

  • This caused a cascade of fine powder to rain down into a small dishlike container.

    Crystal Death Charles Kipps 2010

  • The nasal bones had all but disappeared, and the exposed frontal bone bore evidence of several shallow, dishlike compression fractures.

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • The dishlike depression was splashed with deep crimson.

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • Nothing thrills me more than red wine and herb-braised leg of lamb with an aged Cte Rotiethe straightforward gamey, iron nature of the meat with the multilayered, savory, floral, peppery, smoked meat, iodine, tar scents of aged Syrah to provide complexity to the dishlike an extension of the sauce.

    A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

  • Nothing thrills me more than red wine and herb-braised leg of lamb with an aged Cte Rotiethe straightforward gamey, iron nature of the meat with the multilayered, savory, floral, peppery, smoked meat, iodine, tar scents of aged Syrah to provide complexity to the dishlike an extension of the sauce.

    A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

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