bowl

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  1. noun A hemispherical vessel, wider than it is deep, used for holding food or fluids.
  2. noun The contents of such a vessel.
  3. noun A drinking goblet.
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  • The other object in the bowl was a metal ball the size of Chane's fist - deeply rusted, but still showing clearly the dent of ancient impact. —  The Gates of Thorbardin
  • The inscription on the bowl was almost impossible to make out, except for what looked like a ship's name, Quedagh Merchant, in something tike 18th-century script. —  The Gates of Noon
  • In the center of the bowl was a pedestal of alabaster; on the pedestal stood a silver frame, enclosing what appeared to be an enormous lens of crystal. —  This Scepter'd Isle
  • Within the bowl was a distorted and blurred image. —  Villains by Necessity
  • 'This bowl is almost empty. —  Summer Term At St Clare's
 

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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English bowle, from Old English bolla; see bhel-2 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English boule, from Old French, from Latin bulla, round object.

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  1. Prop., as in early modern English, boll, and still so spelled in some senses (see boll and boll); from Middle English bolle, from Anglo-Saxon bolla, a bowl, = OFries. bolla (in comp.) = Old High German bolla, Middle High German bolle, a round vessel, German bolle, a bulb, onion, = Icelandic bolli = Swedish bål = Danish bolle, a bowl; cf. French bol, a bowl, German bowle, a bowl, from English bowl. Some-what confused with bowl and other forms from Latin bulla (see bull, bill, boil, etc.); prob. ult. akin to bole, ball, etc.
  2. from Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule, French boule = Provencal bola = Spanish Portuguese bola = Italian bolla, bulla, a ball, from Latin bulla, a bubble, a stud, any round object, later English bull, bill, etc. Somewhat confused with bowl, bole, and ball.
  3. from bowl, n.
 

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