container
1 [C] (especially in compounds) a deep round dish with a wide open top, used especially for holding food or liquid:
a salad / fruit / sugar bowl * a washing-up bowl
amount
2 [C] (also bowlful ) the amount contained in a bowl:
a bowl of soup
shape
3 [C] the part of some objects that is shaped like a bowl:
the bowl of a spoon * a toilet / lavatory bowl
theatre
4 [C] (especially AmE) (in names) a large round theatre without a roof, used for concerts, etc. in the open air
SYNSTADIUM:
the Hollywood Bowl
ball
5 [C] a heavy wooden ball that is used in the game of bowls
game
6 (bowls) [U] (AmE also lawn bowling) a game played on an area of very smooth grass, in which players take turns to roll bowls as near as possible to a small ball
football game
7 [C] (AmE) (in names) a football game played after the main season between the best teams:
the Super Bowl
Part of speech: verb
roll ball
1 [V, VN] to roll a ball in the games of bowls and BOWLING
in cricket
2 [V, VN] to throw a ball to the BATSMAN (= the person who hits the ball)
3 [VN] ~ sb (out) to make the BATSMAN have to leave the field by throwing a ball that hits the WICKET
move quickly
4 [V+adv./prep.] (BrE, written) to move quickly in a particular direction, especially in a vehicle:
Soon we were bowling along the country roads.
PHRASALVERBS
bowl sb over
1 to run into sb and knock them down
2 to surprise or impress sb a lot
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for bowl is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is bowl a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, bowl is tagged as noun.
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