bowl
Pronunciation: /bəʊl/
The English word “bowl” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- A dish comprising a mix of different foods served in a bowl, usually named after the base ingredient at the bottom or after a different dish that it simulates.
- The non-mesh outer-container part of a salad spinner.
- The round container surface of a mortar (hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle).
- A water bowl, such as for a pet.
- One of the seven bowls of water used as ceremonial offerings in Buddhist practice.
- One of the seven bowls representing plagues described in Revelations in Christian theology.
- The round hollow part of anything; anything shaped like a bowl.
- The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- The part of a cup that holds a liquid, as opposed to the handle.
- The surface of a sink that receives liquid and has a drain.
- The spinning core of a centrifugal separator.
- Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
- The quantity of burnable content to be consumed in a pipe or bong.
- A round vessel used in various occult, spiritual or divinatory practices.
- A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
- A round crater (or similar) in the ground; a region shaped like a bowl.
- An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl).
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming an overturned-bowl shape.
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…
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