bowl

See also: Bowl

bowl - English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /bəʊl/, [bɒʊɫ]
  • (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA: /bɐʉl/, [bɒʊɫ]
  • (US) IPA: /boʊl/, [boɫ]

Noun

bowl (plural bowls)

  1. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
  2. As much as is held by a bowl.
    • Synonym: bowlful
    • You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.
  3. (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
    • This restaurant offers a number of different bowls.
  4. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
  5. The round hollow part of anything.
    • Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.
    1. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
    2. Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
      • Let's smoke a bowl!
    3. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
  6. (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
  7. (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
  8. (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)

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Translations

  • Esperanto: ĉerpilo
  • Finnish: pesä (fi)
  • Norwegian: skjeblad n
  • Polish: czerpak (pl) m
  • Finnish: kraateri (fi), kuoppa (fi)
  • Slovak: jama ?, priehlbina ?, výmoľ ?, výtlk ?

Noun

bowl (plural bowls)

  1. (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
  2. (sports) The action of bowling a ball.

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Verb

bowl (third-person singular simple present bowls, present participle bowling, simple past and past participle bowled)

  1. (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
  2. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
  3. (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
  4. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
    • We were bowled rapidly along the road.
  5. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

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