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bowl

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

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platform

English

Etymology

From Middle French plateforme (a flat form), from plate (flat) (from Old French plat, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, flat)) + forme (form) (from Latin f?rma (shape; figure; form)); compare flatscape.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?plætf??m/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?plætf??m/
  • Hyphenation: plat?form

Noun

platform (plural platforms)

  1. A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
    Synonym: (not for artistic performances) podium
  2. A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.
  3. A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion; a tribune.
    Synonym: (only regarding the physical structure) podium
  4. A kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles.
  5. (figuratively) Something that allows an enterprise to advance; a foundation or stage.
  6. (automobiles) A set of components shared by several vehicle models.
  7. (computing) A computer system used to deliver services to clients; a solution
  8. (computing) A particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software, and/or a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used to describe a particular environment for running other software, or for defining a specific software or hardware environment for discussion purposes.
  9. (geology) A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
  10. (nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
  11. (politics) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
  12. (travel) A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.
  13. (obsolete) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Synonyms

  • dais

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

platform (third-person singular simple present platforms, present participle platforming, simple past and past participle platformed)

  1. (transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform
  2. (transitive) To place on, or as if on, a platform.
    • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, To Flush, My Dog
      And this dog was satisfied / If a pale thin hand would glide / Down his dewlaps sloping / Which he pushed his nose within, / After—platforming his chin / On the palm left open.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
  4. (politics, transitive) To include in a political platform
  5. (transitive) To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).
    Antonyms: deplatform, no-platform
  6. (film, transitive) To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.

See also

  • Platform in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References

  • platform on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • platform (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle French plateforme.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: plat?form

Noun

platform n (plural platformen or platforms, diminutive platformpje n)

  1. A platform, flat surface, notably a dais or stage
  2. A political platform, (electoral) program
  3. A plateau
  4. A flat roof
  5. (obsolete) A ground-plan

Synonyms

  • (physical) podium n, verhoog n
  • (in a station) perron n
  • (political) (kies)programma n
  • (ground-plan) plattegrond

Derived terms

  • kiesplatform n

Descendants

  • ? Indonesian: platform

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Plattform, from French plateforme.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?pl?tform]
  • Hyphenation: plat?form
  • Rhymes: -orm

Noun

platform (plural platformok)

  1. (politics) platform (electoral program)
  2. (computing) platform (a particular type of operating system or environment)
  3. platform (a flat surface)

Declension

Derived terms

  • platformfüggetlen

References

Further reading

  • platform in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch platform, from Middle French plateforme (Modern French plate-forme), from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, flat)) + Latin f?rma (shape; figure; form).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?platf?rm]
  • Hyphenation: plat?form

Noun

platform

  1. platform,
    1. a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.
      Synonyms: program, rencana
    2. a raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
      Synonyms: panggung, pentas, mimbar
    3. a raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.
      Synonym: peron
  2. a political platform, (electoral) program.

Further reading

  • “platform” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French plateforme.

Noun

platform (definite accusative platformu, plural platformlar)

  1. platform
  2. (transport, travel) platform

Declension

Synonyms

  • (travel): peron

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