Bowl
Contents
English
Noun
Bowl (plural Bowls)- 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.
- 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 part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- The action of bowling a ball.
- (in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.
- (American football) an important annual game, such as the Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl, or the Super Bowl
Verb
Bowl (third-person singular simple present Bowls, present participle Bowling, simple past and past participle Bowled)
- (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
- (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
Adjectives for Bowl
unmingled; capacious; leathern; meager; ambrosial; flowing; enormous; sealed; pewter; lovely; cloisonne; shallow; flowered; fat; priceless; low; translucid; smooth; shining; adorned; brimming; nut-brown; coarse; coppery; hospitable; friendly.
Synonyms
- (as much as is held by a bowl): bowlful
- (haircut): bowl cut, pudding bowl
- (crater): crater, hollow
- (bowls): lawn bowls, lawn bowling
Derived terms
Thesaurus
theater, throw, thrust, tile, tiling, tilt, tilting ground, tiltyard, toss, treadle, troll, trough, trundle, upcurve, urn, vase, vug, walk, wheel, wrestling ring, 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,
