The difference between Bowl and Bowlful
When used as nouns, bowl means a roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items, whereas bowlful means as much as is held by a bowl.
Bowl is also verb with the meaning: to roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bowl and Bowlful
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Bowl as a noun:
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
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Bowl as a noun:
As much as is held by a bowl.
Examples:
"You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already."
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Bowl as a noun:
A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
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Bowl as a noun (typography):
The round hollow part of anything. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle. A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
Examples:
"Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim."
"Let's smoke a bowl!"
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Bowl as a noun:
A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
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Bowl as a noun (sports, theater):
An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
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Bowl as a noun (American football):
A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. , Super Bowl)
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Bowl as a noun:
The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
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Bowl as a noun:
The action of bowling a ball.
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Bowl as a noun (in the plural, but used with a singular verb):
The game of bowls.
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Bowl as a verb (transitive):
To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
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Bowl as a verb (intransitive):
To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
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Bowl as a verb:
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
Examples:
"We were bowled rapidly along the road."
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Bowl as a verb:
To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
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Bowlful as a noun:
As much as is held by a bowl.