bowl.
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
Meaning & usage
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. As much as is held by a bowl.
You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. A dish comprising a mix of different foods served in a bowl, usually named after the base ingredient at the bottom or after a different dish that it simulates.
This restaurant offers a number of different bowls.
açai bowl, rice bowl, sushi bowl
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. The non-mesh outer-container part of a salad spinner.
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. The round container surface of a mortar (hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle).
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. A water bowl, such as for a pet.
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. One of the seven bowls of water used as ceremonial offerings in Buddhist practice.
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items. One of the seven bowls representing plagues described in Revelations in Christian theology.
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl.
Dig out a bowl in the ground.
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. The part of a cup that holds a liquid, as opposed to the handle.
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. The surface of a sink that receives liquid and has a drain.
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. The spinning core of a centrifugal separator.
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned. The quantity of burnable content to be consumed in a pipe or bong.
Let's smoke a bowl!
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. A round vessel used in various occult, spiritual or divinatory practices.
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. A round crater (or similar) in the ground; a region shaped like a bowl.
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl. A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl).
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming an overturned-bowl shape.
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. A singing bowl.
The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl. A begging bowl
Where this word comes from
From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“ball, round vessel, bowl”). Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”). Doublet of boule and pulla.
The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
The action of bowling a ball.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, stud, round object”). Doublet of poll.
To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, stud, round object”). Doublet of poll.
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