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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024bowl1 /boʊl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Ceramicsa deep, round dish or basin, used chiefly for holding liquids, etc.:Mix the vegetables in the bowl.
- the contents of a bowl:a bowl of cherries.
- a rounded, cuplike, hollow part: the bowl of a pipe.
- a stadium:At the Hollywood Bowl we watched the football game.
bowl2 /boʊl/USA pronunciation n. - Sport[countable] a heavy ball used in lawn bowling.
- Sportbowls, [uncountable; used with a singular verb]sc lawn bowling:He tried to play bowls but he wasn't any good.
- Sport[countable] a delivery of the ball in bowling or lawn bowling.
v. - Sport to play at bowling or lawn bowling:[no object]He likes to bowl (or go bowling) on Saturday night.
- to roll the ball in bowling, or attain by bowling:[~ + object]He bowled the ball smoothly down the lane. She bowls a good game.
- bowl over,
- to surprise greatly: [~ + object + over]That news really bowled us over.[~ + over + object]The news really bowled over her friends.
- to knock down by crashing into: [~ + object + over]He nearly bowled us over on his way past.[~ + over + object]He bowled over the fence and flowers.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bowl1 (bōl),USA pronunciation n. - a rather deep, round dish or basin, used chiefly for holding liquids, food, etc.
- the contents of a bowl:a bowl of tomato soup.
- a rounded, cuplike, hollow part:the bowl of a pipe.
- Ceramicsa large drinking cup.
- festive drinking;
conviviality. - any bowl-shaped depression or formation.
- an edifice with tiers of seats forming sides like those of a bowl, having the arena at the bottom;
stadium. - SportAlso 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:the Rose Bowl.
- Printing[Typography.]a curved or semicircular line of a character, as of a, d, b, etc.
v.t. - Buildingto give (a floor) a gentle inclination on all sides toward some area, as a stage or platform.
- bef. 950; Middle English bolle, Old English bolla; cognate with Old Norse bolli. See boll
- Sportone of the balls, having little or no bias, used in playing ninepins or tenpins.
- Sportone of the biased or weighted balls used in lawn bowling.
- Sport bowls, (used with a sing. v.) See lawn bowling.
- Sporta delivery of the ball in bowling or lawn bowling.
- (formerly) a rotating cylindrical part in a machine, as one to reduce friction.
v.i. - Sportto play at bowling or bowls;
participate in or have a game or games of bowling. - Sportto roll a bowl or ball.
- to move along smoothly and rapidly.
- Sport[Cricket.]to deliver the ball to be played by the batsman.
v.t. - to roll or trundle, as a ball or hoop.
- Sportto attain by bowling:He bowls a good game. She usually bowls a 120 game, but today she bowled 180.
- to knock or strike, as by the ball in bowling (usually fol. by over or down).
- to carry or convey, as in a wheeled vehicle.
- Sport[Cricket.]to eliminate (a batsman) by bowling (usually fol. by out):He was bowled for a duck. He was bowled out for a duck.
- bowl over, to surprise greatly:We were bowled over by the news.
- Latin bulla bubble, knob; compare boil1, bola
- Middle French
- late Middle English bowle, variant of boule 1375–1425
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