different between bowl vs dishpan

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b???/, [b???]
• (US) IPA^(key): /bo??/
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *boll?, from Proto-Germanic *bull? (“ball, round vessel, bowl”).

Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”).

Noun

bowl (plural bowls)

1. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
2. As much as is held by a bowl.

3. A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.

4. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
5. The round hollow part of anything.

   Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.

   1. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
   2. A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking

      Let's smoke a bowl!

   3. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
6. A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
7. (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
8. (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)

Synonyms

• (as much as is held by a bowl): bowlful
• (haircut): bowl cut, pudding bowl
• (crater): crater, hollow

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Etymology 2

From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, stud, round object”). Doublet of poll.

Noun

bowl (plural bowls)

1. The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
2. The action of bowling a ball.
3. (in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.

   Synonyms: lawn bowls, lawn bowling

Translations

Verb

bowl (third-person singular simple present bowls, present participle bowling, simple past and past participle bowled)

1. (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
2. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
3. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.

4. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Danish: bowle
• ? Dutch: bowlen

Translations

Anagrams

• Blow, b'low, blow

English

Etymology

dish +? pan

Noun

dishpan (plural dishpans)

1. A large basin or pan with a flat bottom in which dishes are washed.

Derived terms

• dishpanful
• dishpan hands

Translations

See also

• dishrag

Anagrams

• Daphnis, shin pad, shinpad