The difference between Bowl and Hollow

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 hollow means a small valley between mountains.

When used as verbs, bowl means to roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports, whereas hollow means to make a hole in something.


Hollow is also adverb with the meaning: completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

Hollow is also adjective with the meaning: having an empty space or cavity inside.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bowl and Hollow

  1. Bowl as a noun:

    A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.

  2. 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."

  3. Bowl as a noun:

    A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.

  4. 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!"

  5. Bowl as a noun:

    A round crater (or similar) in the ground.

  6. Bowl as a noun (sports, theater):

    An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.

  7. Bowl as a noun (American football):

    A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. , Super Bowl)

  1. Bowl as a noun:

    The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.

  2. Bowl as a noun:

    The action of bowling a ball.

  3. Bowl as a noun (in the plural, but used with a singular verb):

    The game of bowls.

  1. Bowl as a verb (transitive):

    To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.

  2. Bowl as a verb (intransitive):

    To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).

  3. Bowl as a verb:

    To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.

    Examples:

    "We were bowled rapidly along the road."

  4. Bowl as a verb:

    To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

  1. Hollow as a noun:

    A small valley between mountains.

    Examples:

    "He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies."

  2. Hollow as a noun:

    A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.

    Examples:

    "the hollow of the hand or of a tree"

  3. Hollow as a noun (US):

    A sunken area.

  4. Hollow as a noun (figuratively):

    A feeling of emptiness.

    Examples:

    "a hollow in the pit of one's stomach"

  5. Hollow as a noun:

    An exercise in which one lies on one's back with legs and head in the air and arms in the air extended above the head ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEVLvHv9RGg])

  1. Hollow as a verb (transitive):

    to make a hole in something; to excavate

  1. Hollow as an adjective (of something solid):

    Having an empty space or cavity inside.

    Examples:

    "a hollow tree; a hollow sphere"

  2. Hollow as an adjective (of a sound):

    Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.

    Examples:

    "He let out a hollow moan."

  3. Hollow as an adjective (figuratively):

    Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.

    Examples:

    "a hollow victory"

  4. Hollow as an adjective (figuratively):

    Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.

    Examples:

    "a hollow promise"

  5. Hollow as an adjective:

    concave; gaunt; sunken.

  6. Hollow as an adjective (gymnastics):

    pertaining to hollow body position

  1. Hollow as an adverb (colloquial):

    Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

  1. Hollow as a verb:

    To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.

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