The difference between Bowl and Crater
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 crater means a hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.
When used as verbs, bowl means to roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports, whereas crater means to form craters in a surface (of a planet or moon).
check bellow for the other definitions of Bowl and Crater
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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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Crater as a noun (astronomy):
A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.
Examples:
"synonyms: astrobleme"
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Crater as a noun (geology):
The basin-like opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
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Crater as a noun (informal):
The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb.
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Crater as a noun (informal, by extension):
Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
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Crater as a noun (historical):
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Crater as a verb:
To form craters in a surface (of a planet or moon)
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Crater as a verb:
To collapse catastrophically; to become devastated or completely destroyed.
Examples:
"synonyms: implode hollow out"
"The economy is about to crater.'' -- Attributed by David Letterman to Sen. John McCain. [http://laughlines.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/the-economy-is-exploding/ NYTimes blog]"
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Crater as a verb (snowboarding):
To crash or fall.
Examples:
"He cratered into that snow bank about five seconds after his first lesson."
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Crater as a noun (Ireland, informal, UK, dialect):
A term of endearment, a dote, a wretched thing.