The difference between Bowl and Throw

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 throw means the flight of a thrown 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 throw means to twist or turn.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bowl and Throw

  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. Throw as a verb (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England):

    To twist or turn.

    Examples:

    "A thrown nail. "

  2. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.

    Examples:

    "'throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider"

  3. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To eject or cause to fall off.

  4. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To move to another position or condition; to displace.

    Examples:

    "'throw the switch"

  5. Throw as a verb (ceramics):

    To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.

  6. Throw as a verb (transitive, cricket):

    Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.

  7. Throw as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.

    Examples:

    "If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid operation exception."

  8. Throw as a verb (sports):

    To intentionally lose a game.

    Examples:

    "The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match."

  9. Throw as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To confuse or mislead.

    Examples:

    "The deliberate red herring threw me at first."

  10. Throw as a verb (figuratively):

    To send desperately.

    Examples:

    "Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle."

  11. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To imprison.

    Examples:

    "The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail."

  12. Throw as a verb:

    To organize an event, especially a party.

  13. Throw as a verb:

    To roll (a die or dice).

  14. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.

  15. Throw as a verb (transitive, bridge):

    To discard.

  16. Throw as a verb (martial arts):

    To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.

  17. Throw as a verb (transitive, said of one's voice):

    To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.

  18. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To show sudden emotion, especially anger.

  19. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To project or send forth.

  20. Throw as a verb:

    To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.

  21. Throw as a verb:

    To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Tomlinson"

  22. Throw as a verb (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.):

    To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).

  23. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To install a bridge.

  1. Throw as a noun:

    The flight of a thrown object

    Examples:

    "What a great throw by the quarterback!"

  2. Throw as a noun:

    The act of throwing something.

    Examples:

    "With an accurate throw, he lassoed the cow."

  3. Throw as a noun:

    One's ability to throw

    Examples:

    "He's got a girl's throw."

    "He's always had a pretty decent throw."

  4. Throw as a noun:

    A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.

  5. Throw as a noun:

    A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.

  6. Throw as a noun:

    A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.

    Examples:

    "Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw."

  1. Throw as a noun:

    Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Spenser"

    "rfquotek Dryden"

  2. Throw as a noun (veterinary):

    The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.

  1. Throw as a verb (transitive, said of animals):

    To give birth to.

  1. Throw as a noun (obsolete):

    A moment, time, occasion.

  2. Throw as a noun (obsolete):

    A period of time; a while.

  1. Throw as a noun:

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