different between bowl vs intestine

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

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t?st?n/, /?n?t?s?ti?n/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?n?t?sta?n/, /??nt?sta?n/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?n?t?sta?n/
• Rhymes: -?st?n

Etymology 1

From Latin intest?num, neuter of intest?nus (“internal”), as Etymology 2, below.

Noun

intestine (plural intestines)

1. (anatomy, often pluralized) The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.
2. One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.

Synonyms

• bowel
• gut
• tharm

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• entrail
• innard
• colon

Etymology 2

From Latin intest?nus (“internal”), from intus (“within”).

Adjective

intestine (not comparable)

1. Domestic; taking place within a given country or region.
   • 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond 1957, p.2:

     It being true that now after fiue yeeres intestine warre with the reuengefull implacable Indians, a firme peace (not againe easily to be broken) hath bin lately concluded […].

   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.1,

     Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.

2. (obsolete) Internal.
   • a. 1776, David Hume, Of the Origin of Government

     a perpetual intestine struggle […] between authority and liberty

3. (obsolete, rare) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.
   • 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe

     Every thing labours under an intestine necessity.

4. (obsolete, rare) Shut up; enclosed.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowper to this entry?)

Italian

Adjective

intestine f pl

1. feminine plural of intestino

Latin

Adjective

intest?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of intest?nus