bowl

名词 n. 动词 v.
/bəʊl/    /boʊl/|/bɐʉl/|[bɒʊ̯ɫ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
  2. The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
  3. As much as is held by a bowl.
    — You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.
  4. The action of bowling a ball.
  5. A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
    — This restaurant offers a number of different bowls.
  6. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
  7. The round hollow part of anything.
    — Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.
  8. The round hollow part of anything.; The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
  9. The round hollow part of anything.; Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
    — 195. Old German Pipe-Bowl ; carved wood ; design in front of bowl – the letters P K K surrounded by a wreath ; lid wanting. Switzerland.
  10. The round hollow part of anything.; The quantity of burnable content to be consumed in a pipe or bong.
    — Let's smoke a bowl!
  11. The round hollow part of anything.; A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
  12. A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
  13. An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
  14. A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
动词 v.
  1. To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports. transitive
    — Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, / And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven.
  2. To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports). intransitive
  3. To play bowling or a similar game. intransitive
  4. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
    — We were bowled rapidly along the road.
  5. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
    — Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, / And bowled to death with turnips.

词形变化

bowls plural bowls plural bowls present,singular,third-person bowling participle,present bowled participle,past bowled past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“ball, round vessel, bowl”).
Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”). Doublet of boule and pulla.
词源 2
From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, stud, round object”). Doublet of poll.
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