A dish is a shallow container with a wide uncovered top. You eat and serve food from dishes and cook food in them.

The contents of a dish can be referred to as a dish of something.

Food that is prepared in a particular style or combination can be referred to as a dish .

All the objects that have been used to cook, serve, and eat a meal can be referred to as the dishes .

You can use dish to refer to anything that is round and hollow in shape with a wide uncovered top.

If you do the dishes, you wash the dishes.