bowl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: bowls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bowls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bowling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bowled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bowled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
pos: noun
gloss: As much as is held by a bowl.
pos: noun
examples: You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.
gloss: A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
pos: noun
examples: This restaurant offers a number of different bowls.
poke bowl
Fresh ingredients are more expensive than highly processed ones and the result is grain bowls galore for those who can spend $10 or more per meal, and fast food full of salt, fat and sugar for everyone else.
gloss: A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
pos: noun
gloss: The round hollow part of anything.
pos: noun
examples: Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.
gloss: The round hollow part of anything.
pos: noun
gloss: The round hollow part of anything.
pos: noun
examples: 195. Old German Pipe-Bowl ; carved wood ; design in front of bowl – the letters P K K surrounded by a wreath ; lid wanting. Switzerland.
gloss: The round hollow part of anything.
pos: noun
examples: Let's smoke a bowl!
Purple smoke is no joke. Especially when it is real purple. The smell, taste, and high is easily one of the best in the world. One bowl of some purple Kush, and I'm done for a couple of hours.
gloss: The round hollow part of anything.
pos: noun
gloss: A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
pos: noun
gloss: An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
pos: noun
gloss: A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
pos: noun
gloss: To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, / And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven.
gloss: To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To play bowling or a similar game.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
pos: verb
examples: We were bowled rapidly along the road.
On busy days, they also may be seen bowling along the Brighton main line, north of Keymer Junction, with a relief Newhaven boat express, […].
gloss: To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
pos: verb
examples: Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, / And bowled to death with turnips.
Derived words: begging bowl
bowlback
bowl barrow
bowl chair
bowl cut
bowl game
bowl haircut
bowl hat
bowllike
bowl lute
bowlmaker
bowlmaking
bowl of cherries
bowl pack
bowl-shaped
bowl wax
brandy bowl
bread bowl
Buddha bowl
burrito bowl
clean bowl
coffee bowl
doggy dinner bowl look
dustbowl
embowl
finger bowl
fish bowl
fishbowl
food bowl
fruit bowl
goldfish bowl
iron rice bowl
lawn bowl
lawn-bowl
mazer bowl
mixing bowl
ninepin bowl
nutbowl
pipe-bowl
poké bowl
pudding bowl
pudding-bowl
punch bowl
punchbowl
punch bowl waterfall
quiz bowl
rice bowl
rosebowl
salad bowl
scorpion bowl
shampoo bowl
shit-bowl
shit bowl
singing bowl
slop-bowl
slop bowl
sound bowl
soup bowl
spaghetti bowl
spaghetti bowl effect
spoon-bowl
spoon bowl
sugar bowl
swill-bowl
take the browns to the super bowl
teabowl
tea bowl
toilet bowl
track and bowl system
volcano bowl
washbowl
wassail bowl
work bowl
Zuni bowl
bowl a googly
bowl along
bowl down
bowler
bowling
bowling alley
bowling ball
bowl out
bowl over
bowl up
outbowl
overbowl
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: allas
lang: Finnish
word: malja
lang: Slovak
word: misa
lang: Slovak
word: jamka
lang: Slovak
word: priehlbina