(n.) A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
(n.) Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
(n.) The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
(n.) The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
(n.) A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.
(n.) An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
(n.) The game of tenpins or bowling.
(v. t.) To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
(v. t.) To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
(v. t.) To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
(v. i.) To play with bowls.
(v. i.) To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
(v. i.) To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.
Example Sentences:
(1) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(2) If you turn the bowl upside down, the whites should be stiff enough not to fall out.
(3) With their 43-8 win , the Seahawks did more than just produce one of the most dominant performances in Super Bowl history, they gave the city of Seattle its first major professional sports win in 35 years .
(4) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
(5) Place the blackberries in a bowl and scatter over the caster sugar and orange zest.
(6) Two weeks later the Colts would prevail 29-17 at Super Bowl XLI.
(7) The restaurant was already castigated by Channel Four News for serving £4 bowls of cereal in a borough in which thousands of poor families can’t afford to feed their children.
(8) Tip out the mix into a large bowl and add the sugar.
(9) Bowles achieved a total of 70,300 votes, while Mansell had 65,923 – a difference of 4,377.
(10) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(11) The responses appeared to refer directly to Operation Sovereign Borders, but the immigration department secretary, Martin Bowles, later interjected to clarify that they were meant as general responses to operational matters.
(12) x head "We have the begging bowl out to Europe in the hope of stabilising our economy.
(13) Melissa Miller, an associated professor of political science at Bowling Green state university in northern Ohio, said it was notable that Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, made many more visits to Ohio campuses this year.
(14) For a time it did indeed appear as though Manning was destined to follow the same path as Marino – his great idol – remembered as one of the all-time greats but forever haunted over his failure to win a Super Bowl.
(15) To make the ricotta cakes, separate the egg yolks from the whites, putting the whites into a bowl large enough to beat them in.
(16) Roberts, who has also streaked at the Super Bowl and Royal Ascot, scored in the Liverpool v Chelsea Carling Cup game at Anfield in 2000 and the 2002 Champions League final, between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen.
(17) That will end the college football season, but hey I just realized that the NFL Playoffs are still going on which means we'll have more football liveblogging here at the Guardian starting again this weekend where we will cover every game up to the Super Bowl.
(18) Thirty-five normal-hearing listeners' speech discrimination scores were obtained for the California Consonant Test (CCT) in four noise competitors: (1) a four talker complex (FT), (2) a nine-talker complex developed at Bowling Green State University (BGMTN), (3) cocktail party noise (CPN), and (4) white noise (WN).
(19) I’ve seen them listed at odds as long as 33-1 for the Super Bowl, which definitely seemed too long to me.
(20) Last year in a Radar accessible toilet I discovered a dirty syringe in the bowl.
Cracker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, cracks.
(n.) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
(n.) A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.
(n.) A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
(n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
(n.) The pintail duck.
(n.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first and third courses were interchanged and consisted of either a sweet (candy bar) or savory (cheese or crackers) food, both of similar palatabilities and energy densities.
(2) Others in more agreeable confines should take this opportunity to load up on trans-fats and get set for what should be a cracker.
(3) Regardless of when or how that occurs, one thing is believed – there will not be an end to cracker night.
(4) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
(5) McGovern, the award-winning creator of dramas including Cracker, said the whole team currently working on the third series of The Street , including executive producer Sita Williams, at producer ITV Studios' Manchester base could be made redundant.
(6) Two levels (50 and 200 kcal) of three preloads (tomato soup, melon, cheese on crackers) were given just before two different second courses (macaroni and beef casserole, grilled cheese sandwiches), allowing us to examine the effects of caloric level, energy density, and sensory-specific satiety on food intake in normal weight, non-dieting males.
(7) Joe Wilkinson 'Instead of Jokes in a Christmas crackers they should put in something more useful, like the rules to Kabaddi or instructions on how to delete your internet history.'
(8) Comparisons between parents and childrens reports of food frequencies and portion sizes revealed the best correlations for beverages, bread-cereals-crackers, meat-fish-poultry, and mixed dishes.
(9) When asked what cracker night says about life in the Territory, Carmichael points towards personal freedom.
(10) Though the last team to win the league having been outside the top three at Christmas were Arsenal (who were sixth as the crackers were pulled) way back in 1997-98, plenty of sides have come from even further back.
(11) Nutritional ideas and products that are the outcomes of the early vegetarian movement include a commitment to high fiber diets, the popularity of breakfast cereals, and the graham cracker.
(12) Schuster has been commissioning editor of comedy at Sky since 2011, working on shows including Little Crackers and The Kumars for Sky1 and A Young Doctor's Notebook and Psychobitches for Sky Arts.
(13) Cookies, crackers, and potato chips were most retentive, whereas caramels, jelly beans, raisins, and milk chocolate bars were among those poorly retained.
(14) Nicholas Evans is a celebrated storyteller, and the story he tells me is a cracker.
(15) The meals consisted of starch crackers fed at the rate of 1 g carbohydrate from starch per kilogram body weight.
(16) However, during the 1990s Granada and others continued to make acclaimed programmes such as Cracker, The Darling Buds of May and period dramas Oliver Twist and Moll Flanders.
(17) The test fiber was consumed in crackers that contained approximately 7.5 gm fiber from psyllium gum, wheat bran, or a combination of the two sources.
(18) McGovern, the award-winning creator of The Street and other dramas including Cracker, said on BBC Radio 4's Front Row last night that he would not take the drama to another producer when ITV's Manchester drama department is scrapped as part of the latest round of cuts at the broadcaster.
(19) Once delivered, the ethane will be fed into “crackers” which break apart the gas and turn it into ethylene, which is used in a wide range of plastic products, such as plastic bags and – according to one Ineos man, the packaging for Pot Noodles.
(20) On basal esophageal manometry, 275 patients had a normal response, 64 patients had findings of high-amplitude peristalsis or "nut-cracker" esophagus, and 11 patients exhibited changes of diffuse esophageal spasm.