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
a container: things per bowl, or bowls counted; in sport, bowling and cricket; phrases «a bowl of», «fruit bowl», «go bowling», «Super Bowl»
examples
- 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
- 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.
- Mum leaves a bowl of bread dough by the radiator, and an hour later it has puffed up to twice its size.
- Granny puts the best piece in your bowl: «duō chī diǎnr!» (eat some more!).
- Ming's granny drops a bowl — āiyā!
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bowl» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.