Definition of "bowl"

bowl¹

/bəʊl/

noun
plural bowls
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. (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
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  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.
  2021 October 23, Jane Black, “The Amazon of Quinoa Bowls”, in The New York Times‎
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.
  1. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
  2. Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
    Quotations
    195. Old German Pipe-Bowl ; carved wood ; design in front of bowl – the letters P K K surrounded by a wreath ; lid wanting. Switzerland.
    1882, Edwin Atlee Barber, Catalogue of the Collection of Tobacco Pipes Deposited by Edwin A. Barber, page 11
    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.
    2010, Mark Arax, West of the West‎, page 221
  3. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
6. (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
7. (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
8. (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)

bowl²

/bəʊl/

noun
plural bowls
1. (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
2. (sports) The action of bowling a ball.
verb
third-person singular simple present bowls, present participle bowling, simple past and past participle bowled
1. (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
  Quotations
  Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, / And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven.
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii]
2. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
3. (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
4. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
  Quotations
  On busy days, they also may be seen bowling along the Brighton main line, north of Keymer Junction, with a relief Newhaven boat express, […] .
  1950 November, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Southern England”, in Railway Magazine, page 772
5. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
  Quotations
  Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, / And bowled to death with turnips.
  c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iv]

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