dish vs tray

dish

verb
  • To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food. 

  • To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish. 

  • To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another. 

noun
  • The contents of such a vessel. 

  • Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal. 

  • The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity. 

  • The home plate. 

  • A sexually attractive person. 

  • That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor. 

  • Gossip. 

  • A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle. 

  • A specific type of prepared food. 

  • A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl. 

  • A hollow place, as in a field. 

  • A trough in which ore is measured. 

tray

verb
  • to place (items) on a tray 

  • to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria. 

noun
  • A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay) 

  • A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging. 

  • The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled. 

  • The items on a full tray. 

  • A notification area used for icons and alerts. 

  • A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried. 

  • A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations. 

How often have the words dish and tray occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )