The difference between Bowl and Lawn bowls
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 lawn bowls means the game of bowls.
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 Lawn bowls
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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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Lawn bowls as a noun:
The game of bowls.