bowl

bowl
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noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ deep, shallow
▪ empty, full
▪ ceramic, china, crystal, cut-glass, earthenware, enamel, glass
▪ food
▪ cereal, dessert (AmE), pudding (BrE), salad, soup
▪ fruit, punch (usually punchbowl), sugar
▪ water
▪

I refilled the dog's water bowl.

▪ mixing, serving
▪ washing-up (BrE)
▪

a washing-up bowl full of dirty dishes

▪ finger (= for washing your fingers at the table)
▪

I put down the chicken bone and rinsed my fingers in the finger bowl.

▪ begging (figurative)
▪

The school is always having to get out the begging bowl for books and basic equipment.

▪ goldfish
▪ lavatory (BrE), toilet
VERB + BOWL
▪ fill, pour (sb), pour sth into
▪

He poured himself a bowl of soup.

▪ empty
▪ eat
▪

I ate a bowl of cereal.

BOWL + VERB
▪ contain sth, hold sth
▪

a bowl containing flour

▪

This bowl holds about four pints.

▪ overflow
▪

The bowl was overflowing.

PREPOSITION
▪ from a/the bowl
▪

I helped myself to an apple from the bowl.

▪

The cat drank some milk from the bowl

▪ out of a/the bowl
▪

The boy was drinking milk out of a bowl.

▪ in a/the bowl, into a/the bowl
▪

Mix the ingredients in a deep bowl.

▪

Sieve the flour into a bowl.

▪ bowl of
▪

a bowl of cherries

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verb
Bowl is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑bowler
Bowl is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ball, ↑side

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  • Bowl — may refer to:* Bowl (drug culture), the receptacle in which marijuana is placed prior to smoking * Bowl, slang meaning to walk in the UK: Let s bowl * Bowl (vessel), a common open top vessel used to serve food * Bowls, a precision sport popular… …   Wikipedia

  • bowl — bowl1 [bōl] n. [ME bolle < OE bolla, cup, bowl < IE base * bhel , to swell, inflate (see BALL1); infl. in OE by L bulla, bubble, ball] 1. a deep, rounded container or dish, open at the top 2. the capacity or contents of a bowl 3. a thing or …   English World dictionary

  • Bowl — Bowl, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bowling}.] 1. To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. [1913 Webster] Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bowl — (b[=o]l), n. [OE. bolle, AS. bolla; akin to Icel. bolli, Dan. bolle, G. bolle, and perh. to E. boil a tumor. Cf. {Boll}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Bowl — à Seattle Le bowl : à l origine, une …   Wikipédia en Français

  • bowl — Ⅰ. bowl [1] ► NOUN 1) a round, deep dish or basin. 2) a rounded, concave part of an object. 3) a natural basin. 4) chiefly N. Amer. a stadium for sporting or musical events. ORIGIN Old English, related to BOLL(Cf. ↑ …   English terms dictionary

  • Bowl — (b[=o]l), n. [F. boule, fr. L. bulla bubble, stud. Cf. {Bull} an edict, {Bill} a writing.] [1913 Webster] 1. A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bowl — ‘round receptacle’ [OE] and bowl ‘ball used in bowls’ [15] come from different sources. The former (Old English bolle or bolla) comes ultimately from the Germanic base *bul , *bal , which was also the source of English ball, balloon, and ballot.… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • bowl — bowl; bowl·der·ing; bowl·dery; …   English syllables

  • bowl — ‘round receptacle’ [OE] and bowl ‘ball used in bowls’ [15] come from different sources. The former (Old English bolle or bolla) comes ultimately from the Germanic base *bul , *bal , which was also the source of English ball, balloon, and ballot.… …   Word origins

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