a dish of ice-cream

a Determinative

— A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type. Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".

a Noun

— A is the first letter of the alphabet. The letter "a" comes before "b". — In some schools, an A is a very high grade. Ron got an A on his earth science test.

dish Noun

— Dishes are the flat round holder for food that we usually put on the table and eat off of. There was a crash when the waiter dropped his tray of dishes on the floor. — A dish is a particular kind of cooked or prepared food. Last night she made a wonderful Indian dish that I had never eaten before.

dish Verb

— To gossip.

of Preposition

— Made using. It is a house of cards.

ice Noun

— A gas or liquid, normally water, which has been frozen (made solid) When water is cooled below 0&;deg;C, it freezes into ice. Ice is the solid state of water.

ice Verb

— If you ice something, you cool it by putting ice or something else very cold on it. I iced my knee after I hurt it in soccer. — If you ice a cake, you cover with icing. I iced this cake.

cream Noun

— Cream is the fatty part of milk. Would you like some cream in your coffee? — The cream of something is only the best thing, or person. He's the cream of the tennis world. — Cream is a soft white colour — A cream is a smooth oily substance that people put on their skin to make it soft or as a medicine. You should clean the cut and put this cream on it three times a day.

cream Verb

— To cream something is to puree or blend it into a liquid. — To cream something is to make it turn into a cream-like color. — To win easily or by a large amount. The final score was 11-2, we creamed them!