Definitions of Bowl [ʊl]

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Definition of 'Bowl'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) bowl
a rather deep, round dish or basin, used chiefly for holding liquids, food, etc.

2.  bowl
the contents of a bowl.

3.  bowl
a rounded, cuplike, hollow part:
the bowl of a pipe.

4.  bowl
a large drinking cup.

5.  bowl
any bowl-shaped depression or formation.

6.  bowl
amphitheater; stadium.

7.  bowl
Also called

8. (n.) bowl
one of the biased or weighted balls used in lawn bowling.

9.  bowl
bowls, (used with a sing. v.)

10.  bowl
a delivery of the ball in bowling or lawn bowling.

11. (v.i.) bowl
to play at bowling or lawn bowling.

12.  bowl
to move along smoothly and rapidly.

13.  bowl
Cricket. to deliver the ball to be played by the batsman.

14. (v.t.) bowl
to roll or trundle, as a ball or hoop.

15.  bowl
to attain by bowling:
She bowls a good game.

16.  bowl
to knock or strike, as by the ball in bowling.

17.  bowl
bowl over, to surprise greatly.

Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME bowle, var. of boule < MF < L bulla bubble, knob; cf. boil¹, bola)

Definition of 'Bowl'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) bowl
a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids;

2. (noun) bowl, trough
a concave shape with an open top

3. (noun) bowl
a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods

4. (noun) bowl, bowlful
the quantity contained in a bowl

5. (noun) stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium
a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

6. (noun) bowling ball, bowl
a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling

7. (noun) bowl
a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling

8. (noun) bowl, pipe bowl
a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco

9. (verb) roll, bowl
the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)

10. (verb) bowl
roll (a ball)

11. (verb) bowl
hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end

12. (verb) bowl
engage in the sport of bowling
"My parents like to bowl on Friday nights"

Definition of 'Bowl'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) bowl
a round dish for food
a cereal/soup bowl; a bowl of rice

2. bowl
an open-topped liquid container
a toilet bowl

Definition of 'Bowl'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Bowl
a concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc

2. (noun) Bowl
specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking

3. (noun) Bowl
the contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold

4. (noun) Bowl
the hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon

5. (noun) Bowl
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, so as to give it a bias when rolled

6. (noun) Bowl
an ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward

7. (noun) Bowl
the game of tenpins or bowling

8. (verb) Bowl
to roll, as a bowl or cricket ball

9. (verb) Bowl
to roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road

10. (verb) Bowl
to pelt or strike with anything rolled

11. (verb) Bowl
to play with bowls

12. (verb) Bowl
to roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc

13. (verb) Bowl
to move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along

Translation of 'Bowl'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a wooden ball rolled along the ground in playing bowls. See alsobowlsbelow.
Afrikaans: kegelbal	Arabic: كُرةٌ خَشَبِيَّه	Bulgarian: дървена топка за кегли
Brazilian: bola de boliche	Czech: (dřevěná) koule	German: die Kugel
Danish: boccia	Greek: ξύλινη μπάλα του υπαίθριο	Spanish: bola
Estonian: keeglikuul	Farsi: توپ بولینگ	Finnish: keilapallo
French: boule	Hebrew: כָּדוּר בָּאוּלִינג	Hindi: लकड़ी की गेंद
Croatian: kugla za kuglanje	Hungarian: fagolyó	Indonesian: bola boling
Icelandic: keiluspilskúla	Japanese: ボーリング用の球	Korean: 볼링공
Lithuanian: kėglių rutulys	Latvian: [] bumba	Malay: bola golek
Dutch: bowl	Norwegian: bowling-/kjeglekule	Polish: kula do gry w kręgle
Persian: توپ بولینگ	Pashto: کاسه، کنډول	Portuguese: bola
Romanian: bilă (de popice)	Russian: шар	Slovak: (drevená) guľa
Slovenian: krogla	Serbian: kugla	Swedish: klot, boll
Thai: ลูกโบว์ลิ่ง	Turkish: top	Taiwanese: (滾木球戲)滾球
Ukrainian: куля	Urdu: لکڑی کے گولوں سے کھیلنے و	Vietnamese: quả bóng bowling
Chinese: 滚木球
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