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# bowl

«bowl» in Mova's school dictionary: **a round, deep dish for food like soup, cereal or fruit** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#m1)

2) A bowl is the amount a bowl holds: «a bowl of rice». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#m2)

3) To bowl is to roll a ball, as in bowling, or to throw the ball to the batter in cricket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#m3)

4) A bowl is a round sports ground, like the Hollywood Bowl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#x1)
- She filled 5 bowls with soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#x2)
- A bowl of cereal costs 2 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#x3)
- Put 30 grapes equally in 6 bowls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#x4)
- I had a bowl of porridge for breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#x5)
- Put the apples in the fruit bowl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#x6)
- We went bowling for my birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#x7)
- He bowled fast in the cricket match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#x8)
- Feed the dog from its bowl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#x9)
- Millions watch the Super Bowl on TV. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#x10)
- When they reached home the Man prepared two bowls of porridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/#x11)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth/0/)
- [When people forget these helpers, things go wrong, as in the 1930s Dust Bowl, when bare ploughed soil simply blew away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food/6/)
- [Mum leaves a bowl of bread dough by the radiator, and an hour later it has puffed up to twice its size.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/0/)
- [Granny puts the best piece in your bowl: «duō chī diǎnr!» (eat some more!).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/3/)
- [Ming's granny drops a bowl — āiyā!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/30-street-chatter-wow-really-cool/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bowl» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bowl/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.