bowl

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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.

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Quick take

a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids;

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bowl gathered in one view.

noun

a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids;

noun

a concave shape with an open top

noun

a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bowl.

noun

a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids;

noun

a concave shape with an open top

noun

a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods

noun

the quantity contained in a bowl

noun

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling

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

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a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco

noun

the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)

verb

roll (a ball)

verb

hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end

verb

engage in the sport of bowling; "My parents like to bowl on Friday nights"

Example sentences

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.

"> So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl .

There are less amateur bowlers now and 2.

The water comes from your water piping, not the toilet bowl.

I actually used to work as a mechanic at a bowling alley while in college.

"Agreed, programmers in the bay area aren't dust bowl refugees.

To eat a bowl of Cheerios, keep spooning Cheerios into your mouth while there are more Cheerios in the bowl.

Are you likewise surprised by the fact that people don't like the guy who comes up to the bowl labeled "Free Candy" and takes all of the candy, leaving none for anyone else?

They need to make bowling more difficult again by regulating ball surface compounds more closely and making lane oil patterns more difficult.

So now there is much less differentiation between pro and amateur bowlers and it is hard to be consistently dominate as everyone is bowling very high scores.

People sit happily beneath a dirty tarp in a roadside food stand, enjoying Manchurian Gobi... sometimes 4 or 5 people sharing one bowl of the delicious spicy food.

Most Buddhist monks could easily get under the "15 things" limit-- the standard list of possessions is: three robes, an alms bowl, a cloth belt, a needle and thread, a razor for shaving the head, and a water filter.

The recursive definition of eating a bowl of Cheerios is: if there are Cheerios in the bowl, you're done; otherwise, spoon some Cheerios into your mouth and then eat the bowl of Cheerios.

It'll be an iPhone-killer that also sets the temperature of your house and blinks to let you know your dog bowl just tweeted you and donate a bitcoin to the NSA because you forgot to put the induction recharger next to the eFacuet controller this morning.

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