bowl

Meaning

Noun

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.
3. A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
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.
6. The round hollow part of anything.
7. The round hollow part of anything.
8. The round hollow part of anything.
9. A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
10. An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
11. A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)

Verb

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

Concepts

bowl

basin

cup

dish

plate

vessel

tub

pot

pelvis

container

trough

vase

deep dish

porringer

jar

ball

goblet

roll

stadium

pan

pool

bowling ball

arena

sports stadium

bowlful

sphere

throw

reservoir

flowerpot

tumbler

pipe bowl

rice bowl

globe

orb

basket

ablutions

pitch

glass

salad bowl

boule

chunk

clod

lump

brainpan

crown

water dipper

bellow

shout

yell

salver

manger

bowl-shaped vessel

chalice

jorum

winebowl

soup bowl

big bowl

feeding trough

ramekin

trencher

truckle

trundle

boiler

bullet

projectile

shot

slug

play pool

hock glass

roemer

rummer

grail

glomeration

cylinder

main body

shell

rotary durm

rotating drum

rotor

rotor drum

wobbling drum

mixing bowl

bowl-shaped

calabash

bamboo

bin

saucer

sink

bowknot

cuckoo

swimming pool

cast

fling

flip

shoot

shy

skew

sky

toss

ninepin ball

skittle ball

skittle

tenpins

basinful

caliculus

calycle

pledge

toast

conglobation

conglomeration

jack

pellet

bag

base

box

burrow

den

lair

nest

nidus

deliver

enter

feed

feed in

input

pass

serve

vat

scroll

washbasin

serving dish

conch

drinking vessel

baking dish

wooden cup

cistern

flower-pot

plant pot

planter

scale

pitcher

donburi

Bon Festival

obon

tray

bottle

bucket

case

receptacle

wooden dish

wooden bowl

piece of equipment

thing

possession

liquids

small dish

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bəʊl/

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.