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)
- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- Synonym: bowlful
- You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.
- (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.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- Synonyms: bowl cut, pudding bowl
- The round hollow part of anything.
- Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.
- (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
Derived terms
- begging bowl
- bowl barrow
- bowl chair
- bowl cut
- bowl game
- bowl hat
- bowl lute
- bowl of cherries
- bowl pack
- bowl wax
- Buddha bowl
- clean bowl
- coffee bowl
- doggy dinner bowl look
- dustbowl
- finger bowl
- fish bowl
- food bowl
- fruit bowl
- goldfish bowl
- iron rice bowl
- lawn-bowl
- mazer bowl
- mixing bowl
- poké bowl
- pudding bowl
- pudding-bowl
- punch bowl
- punch bowl waterfall
- quiz bowl
- rice bowl
- salad bowl
- scorpion bowl
- shampoo bowl
- shit bowl
- shit-bowl
- singing bowl
- slop bowl
- slop-bowl
- soup bowl
- spaghetti bowl
- spoon bowl
- spoon-bowl
- sugar bowl
- swill-bowl
- take the browns to the super bowl
- tea bowl
- toilet bowl
- track and bowl system
- volcano bowl
- work bowl
- Zuni bowl
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Noun
bowl (plural bowls)
- (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- (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)
- (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
- (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
- (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
- We were bowled rapidly along the road.
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
Derived terms
- bowl a googly
- bowl along
- bowl out
- bowl over
- bowler
- bowling
- bowling alley
- bowling ball