bowl
noun
[ bəʊl ]
• a round, deep dish or basin used for food or liquid.
• "a mixing bowl"
Similar:
dish,
basin,
pan,
pot,
crock,
crucible,
mortar,
container,
vessel,
receptacle,
repository,
pudding bowl,
soup bowl,
fruit bowl,
punchbowl,
mixing bowl,
sugar bowl,
finger bowl,
rose bowl,
crater,
jorum,
mazer,
porringer,
reservatory,
• a natural basin.
Similar:
hollow,
valley,
dip,
depression,
indentation,
well,
trough,
crater,
cavity,
concavity,
sinkhole,
hole,
pit,
excavation,
dust bowl,
punchbowl,
• a stadium for sporting or musical events.
• "the Hollywood Bowl"
Similar:
stadium,
arena,
amphitheatre,
coliseum,
colosseum,
enclosure,
ground,
circus,
hippodrome,
park,
cirque,
Origin:
Old English bolle, bolla, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bol ‘round object’, also to boll.
bowl
noun
• a wooden or hard rubber ball, slightly asymmetrical so that it runs on a curved course, used in the game of bowls.
• a spell or turn of bowling in cricket.
bowl
verb
• roll (a ball or other round object) along the ground.
• "she snatched her hat off and bowled it ahead of her"
• (of a bowler) propel (the ball) with a straight arm towards the batsman, typically in such a way that the ball bounces once.
• "Lillee bowled another bouncer"
Similar:
pitch,
throw,
propel,
hurl,
toss,
lob,
loft,
fling,
launch,
let fly,
shy,
cast,
project,
send,
deliver,
spin,
roll,
chuck,
sling,
bung,
heave,
buzz,
whang,
peg,
hoy,
bish,
• move rapidly and smoothly in a specified direction.
• "they bowled along the country roads"
Similar:
hurtle,
speed,
career,
shoot,
streak,
sweep,
hare,
fly,
wing,
drive,
motor,
move,
travel,
go,
proceed,
belt,
pelt,
tear,
scoot,
tool,
bomb,
bucket,
shift,
go like the clappers,
clip,
boogie,
hightail,
barrel,
post,
hie,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the general sense ‘ball’): from Old French boule, from Latin bulla ‘bubble’.
