Dish and Portion

Dish

Dish noun - A usually circular utensil for holding something (as food).

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Portion and dish are semantically related in quantity topic. In some cases you can use "Portion" instead a noun "Dish".

Nearby Words: dished, dishing, dishy, dishful

Portion noun - A state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand.

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Dish and portion are semantically related in quantity topic. Sometimes you can use "Dish" instead a noun "Portion".

Nearby Words: portioned, portioning, porting, portionless

good	good dish	good portion
particular	particular dish	particular portion
specific	specific dish	specific portion
certain	certain dish	certain portion
Other adjectives: actual, entire, massive, large, big, great, huge, blue, main, new, final, next, last.

Later, in Subterranian Animism, we meet Yuugi Hoshiguma, who carries a sake dish (filled with sake) throughout her entire fight with you (that is, the a large portion of the stage).

Source: Drunken Boxing
In Mexico, the burrito—a dish consisting of a wheat flour tortilla wrapped around a small portion of beans, meat and rice—was historically highly regional, restricted to the wheat-growing northern part of the country.

Source: Recursive Import
Can and will dish out 47 different flavors of hurt to any boss dumb enough to get within range of his mighty plum-sized fists (a slight exaggeration, but he is completely able to hack down a significant portion of their health bar on his own).

Source: Manga / Dororo

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