bowl
part of speech
noun (bowl, bowls); verb (bowl, bowls, bowled, bowling)
meaning for a pupil
1) A bowl is a round, deep dish for food like soup, cereal or fruit. tree →
2) A bowl is the amount a bowl holds: «a bowl of rice». tree →
3) To bowl is to roll a ball, as in bowling, or to throw the ball to the batter in cricket. tree →
4) A bowl is a round sports ground, like the Hollywood Bowl. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here bowls are gold vessels for the Tabernacle table, used with the dishes and jars for pouring out offerings of drink. In the later books a bowl is also an ordinary serving dish, and the Temple's bowls of gold and silver are counted. Interpretation: Tradition counts them among the vessels of the table of showbread in the Tabernacle, and sees the Tabernacle's utensils as models for the later Temple. Zechariah sees a lampstand with a bowl on top and two olive trees beside it, which the tradition reads as a sign of God's help in rebuilding the Temple. In the primary lessons: a container: things per bowl, or bowls counted; in sport, bowling and cricket; phrases «a bowl of», «fruit bowl», «go bowling», «Super Bowl»
examples
- And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and the pans thereof, and the jars thereof, and the bowls thereof, wherewith to pour out; of pure gold shalt thou make them. (Torah EXO.25.29, JPS 1917) tree →
- And he made the vessels which were upon the table, the dishes thereof, and the pans thereof, and the bowls thereof, and the jars thereof, wherewith to pour out, of pure gold. (Torah EXO.37.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the pans, and the bowls, and the jars wherewith to pour out; and the continual bread shall remain thereon. (Torah NUM.4.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- Water he asked, milk she gave him; in a lordly bowl she brought him curd. (Prophets JDG.5.25, JPS 1917) tree →
- thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand. (Writings EZR.1.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- and two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.' (Prophets ZEC.4.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- Each bowl has 8 strawberries. tree →
- She filled 5 bowls with soup. tree →
- A bowl of cereal costs 2 dollars. tree →
- Put 30 grapes equally in 6 bowls. tree →
- I had a bowl of porridge for breakfast. tree →
- Put the apples in the fruit bowl. tree →
- We went bowling for my birthday. tree →
- He bowled fast in the cricket match. tree →
- Feed the dog from its bowl. tree →
- Millions watch the Super Bowl on TV. tree →
- When they reached home the Man prepared two bowls of porridge. tree →
note
«equally in bowls» means divide; «each bowl has» means multiply. Trap: «bowl» as a verb is the game of bowling or cricket.
In the corpora
- Water he asked, milk she gave him; in a lordly bowl she brought him curd.
- That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments; but they are not grieved for the hurt of Joseph.
- thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
- People joke that a goldfish forgets everything after three seconds, so swimming round a bowl is always a new adventure.
- When people forget these helpers, things go wrong, as in the 1930s Dust Bowl, when bare ploughed soil simply blew away.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bowl» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.