Dictionary Definition
bowl
Noun
1 a round vessel that is open at the top; used
for holding fruit or liquids or for serving food
2 a concave shape with an open top [syn: trough]
3 a dish that is round and open at the top for
serving foods
4 the quantity contained in a bowl [syn: bowlful]
6 a wooden ball (with flattened sides) used in
the game of bowls
7 a small round container that is open at the top
for holding tobacco [syn: pipe
bowl]
Verb
1 roll (a ball)
2 engage in the sport of bowling; "My parents
like to bowl on Friday nights"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Probably from the French boule, a ball.Pronunciation
- (UK) /bəʊl/
- (US) /boʊl/
Noun
- 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.
- You can’t have any more soup - you’ve had three bowls already.
- The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- (also pudding bowl or bowl cut) A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- The action of bowling a ball.
- (in plural bowls but used with a singular verb) The game of lawn bowls.
- an important annual game, such as the Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl, or the Super Bowl
Synonyms
- i-c as much as is held by a bowl bowlful
- i-c haircut bowl cut, pudding bowl
- i-c crater crater, hollow
- i-c lawn bowls lawn bowls
Translations
container
- Amharic: ኀድጓዳ ሳህን
- Arabic: (zibdíyya) , (sulʈaníyya)
- Chinese: 碗 (wǎn)
- Czech: mísa, miska
- Dutch: schaal
- trreq Esperanto
- Finnish: kulho, kuppi, malja, vati
- French: bol
- German: Schale, Schüssel
- Hebrew: קערה
- Hungarian: tál, tálka
- Italian: scodella, ciotola
- Japanese: ボール (bōru), どんぶり (donburi), 鉢 (はち, hachi)
- Korean: 사발 (sabal)
- Kurdish: کاسه
- Lao: ('oo)
- Lithuanian: dubuo
- Portuguese: tigela
- Russian: чаша
- Slovene: skleda
- Spanish: tazón
- Swedish: skål
- Thai: (chaam), (tûay)
as much as is held by a bowl
See bowlful
ball used in lawn bowls
- Italian: boccia
- Lithuanian: dubenėlis
haircut
crater
action of bowling a ball
lawn bowls See lawn
bowls
Verb
- 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).
Translations
roll or throw (a ball)
- Finnish: keilata
Derived terms
- bowl along
- bowl cut, bowl-cut
- bowler
- bowling
- bowling alley
- bowling ball
- bowl out
- bowl over
- dustbowl
- fruit bowl
- mixing bowl
- pudding bowl
- salad bowl
- singing bowl
- soup bowl
Anagrams
Extensive Definition
Bowl may refer to:
- Bowl (drug culture), the receptacle in which marijuana is placed prior to smoking
- Bowl (vessel), a common open-top vessel used to serve food
- Bowls, a precision sport popular in the United Kingdom
- Flush toilet or Toilet bowl
- The Bowl (Douglas), a multi-use stadium in Douglas, Isle of Man.
- Bowl game, a post-season college football game
- The Bowl (Utah vs. New Mexico), an annual college football game
- Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League in the United States
- Hollywood Bowl, a modern amphitheater in Hollywood, California, USA
- Bowl cut, a haircut that looks like an inverted bowl on top of the person's head
- Quizbowl, a family
of games of questions and answers on all topics of human knowledge
- College Bowl, a college format of quizbowl
- Knowledge Bowl, an academic contest similar to quizbowl
See also
bowl in Japanese: ボウル
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
adobe,
advance, agora, alveolation, alveolus, amphitheater, antrum, arena, armpit, athletic field, auditorium, background, basin, bear garden, biscuit, bisque, boxing ring, brick, bull ring, bunt, butt, campus, canvas, cast, catapult, cave, cave in, cavity, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, change of pace,
change-up, china, chuck, chunk, circus, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, concave, concavity, course, crater, crock, crockery, crypt, cup, curve, dart, dash, depression, dip, dish, downcurve, drive, enamelware, fastball, field, fire, firebrick, fling, flip, floor, fold, follicle, fork, forum, forward, forward pass, funnel
chest, furl, glass, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, heave, hippodrome, hole, hollow, hollow out, hollow shell,
hurl, hurtle, impel, incurve, jerk, jug, knuckleball, lacuna, lance, lateral, lateral pass, launch, let fly, lists, lob, locale, marketplace, mat, milieu, move, open forum, outcurve, palaestra, pan, parade ground, pass, pedal, peg, pelt, pit, pitch, pitchfork, place, platform, pocket, pole, porcelain, pot, pottery, precinct, prize ring, propel, public square, punch
bowl, purlieu, push, put, put the shot, range, refractory, retire, retreat, ring, roll, roll up, row, scene, scene of action, scenery, scoop, screwball, serve, service, setting, shell, shot-put, shove, shunt, shy, sink, sinker, sinus, site, slider, sling, snap, socket, sphere, spin, spitball, spitter, squared circle,
stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting,
sweep, sweep along,
terrain, theater, throw, thrust, tile, tiling, tilt, tilting ground, tiltyard, toss, treadle, troll, trough, trundle, upcurve, urn, vase, vug, walk, wheel, wrestling
ring