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How to pronounce bowl
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What does bowl mean?
nounA roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix, prepare or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
“You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.”
A dish comprising a mix of different foods served in a bowl, usually named after the base ingredient at the bottom or after a different dish that it simulates.
“açai bowl, rice bowl, sushi bowl”
The non-mesh outer-container part of a salad spinner.
verbTo roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
“Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, / And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven.”
To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
To play bowling or a similar game.
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