Dictionary Entry
bowl
bowl is a 4-letter English word with 25 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 25 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
- 2noun
Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
- 3noun
The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
- 4noun
The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
- 7noun
The game of tenpins or bowling.
- 8transitive verb
To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
- 9transitive verb
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
- 10transitive verb
To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
- 11intransitive verb
To play with bowls.
- 12intransitive verb
To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
- 13intransitive verb
To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.
- 14noun
the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
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- 15noun
a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods
- 16noun
a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids
- 17noun
a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco
- 18noun
a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling
- 19noun
a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling
- 20noun
a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
- 21noun
the quantity contained in a bowl
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- 22noun
a concave shape with an open top
Synonyms
- 23verb
engage in the sport of bowling
"My parents like to bowl on Friday nights"
- 24verb
hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end
- 25verb
roll (a ball)
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