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Bowl vs. Basin

Bowl and Basin Definitions

Bowl

A hemispherical vessel, wider than it is deep, used for holding food or fluids.

Basin

An open, shallow, usually round container used especially for holding liquids.

Bowl

The contents of such a vessel.

Basin

The amount that such a vessel can hold.

Bowl

A drinking goblet.

Basin

A washbowl; a sink.
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Bowl

A bowl-shaped part, as of a spoon or pipe.

Basin

A body of water that is connected to the sea and is partially or almost completely enclosed by land.

Bowl

A bowl-shaped topographic depression.

Basin

A small body of water that is artificially enclosed.

Bowl

A bowl-shaped stadium or outdoor theater.

Basin

See watershed.
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Bowl

(Football) Any of various postseason games played between specially selected teams, especially at the college level.

Basin

A broad tract of land in which the rock strata are tilted toward a common center.

Bowl

A ball, traditionally made of wood, that is weighted or slightly flattened so as to roll with a bias, used in lawn bowling.

Basin

A large, bowl-shaped depression in the surface of the land or ocean floor.

Bowl

A roll or throw of a ball in lawn bowling and other bowling games.

Basin

A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
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Bowl

Bowls(used with a sing. verb) See lawn bowling.

Basin

(obsolete) A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.

Bowl

A revolving cylinder or drum in a machine.

Basin

A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.

Bowl

To participate in a game of bowling
I bowl every Thursday night in a league.

Basin

(geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.

Bowl

To throw or roll a ball in a game of bowling
It's your turn to bowl.

Basin

(geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.

Bowl

To hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch toward the batsman at the other, keeping the arm straight throughout the delivery.

Basin

To create a concavity or depression in.

Bowl

To move quickly and smoothly, especially by rolling
The sportscar bowled along through the countryside.

Basin

To serve as or become a basin.

Bowl

To throw or roll (a ball).

Basin

To shelter or enclose in a basin.

Bowl

To make (a specified score) in bowling
Placed first by bowling 237.
Bowled a strike in the first frame.

Basin

A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

Bowl

To perform (a specified amount, as a string or game) in bowling
She bowled eight frames before deciding to use a different ball.

Basin

The quantity contained in a basin.

Bowl

To move quickly and smoothly by or as if by rolling
Bowled a tire from the garage.

Basin

A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.

Bowl

To meet or strike with or as if with the force of a rapidly rolling object
The swimmer was bowled over by the wave.

Basin

A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.

Bowl

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

Basin

A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

Bowl

As much as is held by a bowl.
You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.

Basin

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; - especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

Bowl

(cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
This restaurant offers a number of different bowls.
Poke bowl

Basin

A bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids;
She mixed the dough in a large basin

Bowl

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

Basin

The quantity that a basin will hold;
A basinful of water

Bowl

The round hollow part of anything.
Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.

Basin

A natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it;
The basin of the Great Salt Lake

Bowl

The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.

Basin

The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries;
Flood control in the Missouri basin

Bowl

A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking
Let's smoke a bowl!

Basin

A bathroom or lavatory sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you wash your hands and face;
He ran some water in the basin and splashed it on his face

Bowl

(typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.

Bowl

(landforms) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.

Bowl

An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.

Bowl

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

Bowl

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

Bowl

The action of bowling a ball.

Bowl

The game of bowls.

Bowl

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

Bowl

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

Bowl

(intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.

Bowl

To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
We were bowled rapidly along the road.

Bowl

To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

Bowl

A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
Brought them food in bowls of basswood.

Bowl

Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.

Bowl

The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

Bowl

The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.

Bowl

A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.

Bowl

An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
Like an uninstructed bowler, . . . who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it.

Bowl

The game of tenpins or bowling.

Bowl

To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven.

Bowl

To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.

Bowl

To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth,And bowled to death with turnips

Bowl

To play with bowls.

Bowl

To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.

Bowl

To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.

Bowl

A round vessel that is open at the top; used for holding fruit or liquids or for serving food

Bowl

A concave shape with an open top

Bowl

A dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods

Bowl

The quantity contained in a bowl

Bowl

A large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

Bowl

A wooden ball (with flattened sides) used in the game of bowls

Bowl

A small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco

Bowl

Roll (a ball)

Bowl

Engage in the sport of bowling;
My parents like to bowl on Friday nights

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