What's the difference between bowl and jowl?

Bowl


Definition:

  • (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.

Jowl


Definition:

  • (n.) The cheek; the jaw.
  • (v. t.) To throw, dash, or knock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's also, clearly, the beginning of an annual TV tradition, a comforting pool of lamplit nostalgia amid all the sequins and celebrity hoo-hah, with Geoffrey Palmer flapping his jowls exasperatedly as he realises he's packed the wrong rectal tube.
  • (2) At the same time, the perioral, jowl, and submandibular regions must be treated by a combination of standard face lifting procedures and augmentation of the bone structures of the face.
  • (3) Each suture, by its location and direction of lift, corrects one of the four nasolabial regions including the jowl.
  • (4) Just wide expanses of inoffensive pleasantness so strong that if any of the bloody really jolly nice people on the show were to drop their grins, their overexerted jowls would fall straight into their cake mix.
  • (5) Photograph: Supplied by LMK Earlier this year, the Post – whose traffic numbers reached a record 83.1m unique visitors in September 2016, a 40% year-on-year increase – moved from its former base to a gleaming, light-filled building on K Street, where reporters sit cheek-by-jowl with software engineers.
  • (6) Like the diaphragm, heart, tongue and jowl of cattle show higher MH values than those of "normal beef".
  • (7) Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein once claimed he and his fellow bankers were “doing God's work”, and, judging by the way banks and churches sit cheek by jowl, the City seems to take the same view.
  • (8) It is an endless field of tiny wooden and perspex blocks, low-rise courtyards huddled cheek by jowl with a motley jumble of towers, expanding ever outwards in concentric rings.
  • (9) The heart, tongue, jowl, diaphragm and tail as well as shoulder, top round, the longissimus dorsi muscle of slaughtered cattle and the diaphragms of calf were examined with respect to their myoglobin content and beta-hydroxyacyl-CoA-dehydrogenase (HADH) activity.
  • (10) Following this detachment, the soft tissues of the cheek, forehead, jowls, nasolabial folds, lateral canthus, and eyebrows can be lifted to reestablish their youthful relationship with the underlying skeleton.
  • (11) The growth of cities meant grand residences and privacy for some; cheek-by-jowl living for others.
  • (12) He appeared to be thoroughly surprised to be standing at the microphone in the blue room at 10.45pm, media cheek by jowl to see the new incumbent.
  • (13) The colours are of humidity, green and yellow, the unrelenting tropical light from the one window picking out the ageing jowled face so recently feared.
  • (14) Though the host city bears ultimate responsibility for human-rights violations, sports governing bodies such as the IOC are also obliged to respect human rights.” The focus has been on the long, bitter battle over the fate of Vila Autódromo, a small community that sat cheek by jowl with the Olympic Park.
  • (15) Approximating Hitch's walrus-like features took four hours in makeup every day: the prosthetic jowls and nose, the balding pate, the trademark underbite, the fat suit.
  • (16) Liverpool 8 lives cheek-by-jowl not only with the sea but with the city-centre shops, where young Mike tried to find work as a window-dresser, and was given a job, only to be told when his boss returned from headquarters: "'I'm sorry, but when you are in the window, you represent the company.'
  • (17) Designer shops and luxury beachside restaurants sit cheek-by-jowl with crammed, tin-roof shantytowns strewn with rubbish and resembling Brazilian favelas.
  • (18) Cy Twombly's paintings are today on view at Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London , cheek by jowl with works by the 17th century master Nicolas Poussin, and a stone's throw from paintings by Rubens and Rembrandt.
  • (19) Lymph nodes, spleens, and tonsils from swine infected experimentally with Group E Streptococcus (GES, the causative agent of jowl abscess) were examined grossly and bacteriologically.
  • (20) She invited touring companies such as Cheek by Jowl and the Irish troupe Druid to perform, and added late-night comedy to the mix.