Definitions for bowl

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bowl bowl

Spelling: [bohl]

IPA: /boʊl/

Bowl is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in bowl (blow).

Definitions for bowl

noun

1. a rather deep, round dish or basin, used chiefly for holding liquids, food, etc.
2. the contents of a bowl:
3. a rounded, cuplike, hollow part:
4. a large drinking cup.
5. festive drinking; conviviality.
6. any bowl-shaped depression or formation.
7. an edifice with tiers of seats forming sides like those of a bowl, having the arena at the bottom; stadium.
8. Also called bowl game. a football game played after the regular season by teams selected by the sponsors of the game, usually as representing the best from a region of the country:
9. Typography. a curved or semicircular line of a character, as of a, d, b, etc.
10. one of the balls, having little or no bias, used in playing ninepins or tenpins.
11. one of the biased or weighted balls used in lawn bowling.
12. bowls, (used with a singular verb) lawn bowling.
13. a delivery of the ball in bowling or lawn bowling.
14. (formerly) a rotating cylindrical part in a machine, as one to reduce friction.

Verb phrases

1. bowl over, to surprise greatly:

verb (used with object)

1. to give (a floor) a gentle inclination on all sides toward some area, as a stage or platform.
2. to roll or trundle, as a ball or hoop.
3. to attain by bowling:
4. to knock or strike, as by the ball in bowling (usually followed by over or down).
5. to carry or convey, as in a wheeled vehicle.
6. Cricket. to eliminate (a batsman) by bowling (usually followed by out):

verb (used without object)

1. to play at bowling or bowls; participate in or have a game or games of bowling.
2. to roll a bowl or ball.
3. to move along smoothly and rapidly.
4. Cricket. to deliver the ball to be played by the batsman.

Origin of bowl

before 950; Middle English bolle, Old English bolla; cognate with Old Norse bolli. See boll

Examples for bowl

In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.

Every bowl, tray, warming-pan, and piggin has gone to the mines.

Kitty paused in the hall, playing with the roses in a bowl upon the table.

Kingozi, nursing the bowl of his pipe, continued to stare up at him.

Set a heatproof bowl over a pot of gently simmering water, making sure that the bowl does not touch the surface of the water.

Add chocolate and butter to the bowl and melt, stirring to combine.

Combine the cold butter and flour in the bowl of a food processor.

He gives them daily reminders to be careful and to keep a bowl of water mixed with Clorox by the door.

When it has doubled in bulk, remove it from the bowl and knead it.

As for me, not a foot will I budge, till I have seen thee empty that bowl.