Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Bowl   /boʊl/   Listen
noun
Bowl  n.  
1.
A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc. "Brought them food in bowls of basswood."
2.
Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
3.
The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
4.
The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.


Bowl  n.  
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, so as to give it a bias when rolled.
2.
pl. An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward. "Like an uninstructed bowler,... who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it."
3.
pl. The game of tenpins or bowling. (U.S.)


verb
Bowl  v. t.  (past & past part. bowled; pres. part. bowling)  
1.
To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. "Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven."
2.
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
3.
To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.


Bowl  v. i.  
1.
To play with bowls.
2.
To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
3.
To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Bowl" Quotes from Famous Books



... do hope I shall draw the right one, Jasper," she said, standing on tiptoe, her fingers trembling over the bowl. ...
— Five Little Peppers at School • Margaret Sidney
... took three roses into a house—a red one, a white one, very much finer than the first, and the third a dream-rose that takes me into the other world—the kind of yellow rose that sits in a jet bowl leaning on the cross in the ...
— Child and Country - A Book of the Younger Generation • Will Levington Comfort
... one end of the deal table of the papers and books, brushes and chalks that littered it, the citoyenne laid out on it the earthenware soup-bowl, two tin porringers, two iron forks, the loaf of brown bread and a jug of ...
— The Gods are Athirst • Anatole France
... was Lothaw's first grand dinner-party. Yet, by carefully watching the others, he managed to acquit himself creditably, and avoided drinking out of the finger-bowl by first secretly testing its contents with a spoon. The conversation ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... tobacco-smoking, as they appeared to his unsophisticated eyes in England. "At the theatres and everywhere else," says the traveller, "the English are constantly smoking tobacco in the following manner. They have pipes, made on purpose, of clay. At the further end of these is a bowl. Into the bowl they put the herb, and then setting fire to it, they draw the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again through their nostrils, like funnels," and so on; conscientious explanations which a German tourist of our own times might think it superfluous ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com