We notice the dish-shaped depression on the top of the altar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The central part of the continent is a dish-shaped table-land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

Tim aimed his boat inland, toward where a dish-shaped crater lay on the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destiny's Road]

A dish-shaped antenna pulled in the signal for the delicately balanced detector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deathworld] Reference

He held a metal detector, moving the dish-shaped end back and forth across the bronze sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metrognome and other Stories]

Satellite TV is much easier to use, given the proper dish-shaped antenna and decoding equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Words Are The Best Weapon] Reference

The highway ran straight as a bullet's flight, broken by a dish-shaped crater nine miles to the west.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Don’t Understand ?] Reference

They had crossed a shallow dish-shaped depression a couple of miles across, rimmed by these half-melted.    From Wordnik.com.  [A World Out of Time]

Lateness was less a discourtesy than a cause for worry: had dish-shaped craters begun to sprout in city roads?.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Don’t Understand ?] Reference

If a given field be dish-shaped, so as to retain it all, it must become a pond, and so remain, except in Summer, when greater evaporation from a water surface may reduce it to a swamp or marsh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference

A gigantic, dish-shaped object lay in the street just ahead, and Eddie's overstrained mind, perhaps cued by the classical buildings on either side of them, produced an image of Jove and Thor playing Frisbee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waste Lands]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two on a Tower] Reference

He turned to Helga and handed her the dish-shaped black hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Word Around the Net] Reference

And everywhere brass: dish-shaped downlights, railings atop each banquette.    From Wordnik.com.  [Design Observer: Main Posts] Reference

He filled the giant plastic dish-shaped engine covers of a DC-9 with large-grained plastic sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daddy Types] Reference

He helped his son grind the metal disc into a concave mirror; that is, a mirror that is a little dish-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of American Life and Adventure] Reference

Data from Spirit indicated that a brake on the motor that rotates the rover's dish-shaped high-gain antenna was not working correctly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mars News from MarsDaily.com] Reference

Derivation: From the Aleut word kolosh, or more properly, kaluga, meaning “dish,” the allusion being to the dish-shaped lip ornaments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

In 1937 the American amateur astronomer Grote Reber built a pioneering dish-shaped radio telescope in his back garden and produced the first radio map of the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

The announcement, made earlier this week at the Solar Power International Convention, will have Mortenson build the dish-shaped SunCatcher systems for Houston-based Tessera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal] Reference

Upon reaching orbit, however, the crew discovered a problem with the vehicle's Ku-band antenna, a dish-shaped device that allows large volumes of data, including video, to be transmitted back to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

The SKA would consist of some 3 000 dish-shaped antennae and other hybrid receiving technologies, with a core of about 2 000 antennas and outlying stations of 30 to 40 antennas each, spiralling out of the core.    From Wordnik.com.  [Engineering News | Home] Reference

NASA said the dish-shaped antenna is used for the fast transmission of data, including television, to Earth and for the shuttle's radar system that is used during rendezvous with the International Space Station.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Money Times] Reference

The dish-shaped antenna is used for high data rate communications -- transmitting video images to the ground, as well as working with the shuttle's radar system to help the shuttle crew rendezvous with the space station.    From Wordnik.com.  [ARN News]

Discovery's crew of four men and three women soon began troubleshooting the apparent failure of a dish-shaped antenna used to downlink video from space and to provide radar data during the shuttle's rendezvous with the station.    From Wordnik.com.  [coloradoan.com - Local News] Reference

"The dish-shaped antenna is used for high data rate communications with the ground, including television, and for the shuttle's radar system that is used during rendezvous with the International Space Station," the statement said.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The dish-shaped antenna is used for high data rate communications -- transmitting video images, as well as working with the shuttle's radar system -- with the ground crew and during the spacecraft's rendezvous with the International Space Station.    From Wordnik.com.  [CIO News]

Orion's heat shield, the dish-shaped thermal protection system at the base of the spacecraft, will endure the most heat and will erode, or "ablate," in a controlled fashion, transporting heat away from the crew module during its descent through the atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

As she ran, her ears were aware of many pipings, more beautiful than music; in the small, dish-shaped houses in the fork of giant arms, where they had lain all night, lover by lover, warmly pressed, the bright-eyed, big-hearted singers began to awaken for the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [English: Composition and Literature] Reference

Adding to the complexities in this case, in particular, according to Greg Gust, a warning co-ordination meteorologist with the Weather Service, were the changing temperatures (colder weather freezes and slows the waters) and the difficulty sorting out just how much water will emerge from the long, flat dish-shaped land here.    From Wordnik.com.  [news | GT | http://www.gadsdentimes.com] Reference

Fssa, still loosely knotted around Kirtn’s neck, extruded a dish-shaped listening apparatus and pointed it at the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dancer's Luck]

Flat dish-shaped bowls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 429-466] Reference

) is known for its shoulder hump, boxed nose, and dish-shaped face.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference