dish out
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
administer or bestow, as in small portions
administer critical remarks to everyone present
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- distribution derivation
- dispensation derivation
- apportionment derivation
- deal derivation
- dispenser derivation
- electrical distributor derivation
- allocator derivation
- dispenser derivation
- dispensation derivation
Sense 2 verb
provide (usually but not necessarily food)
We serve meals for the homeless
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | distribution |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dispensation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | apportionment |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | deal |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dispenser |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | electrical distributor |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | allocator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dispenser |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dispensation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | give |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | portion |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | reallot |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | deal |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | apply |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dish |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dish |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dishful |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | serve |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | ply |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | plank |