Bowl vs. Plate

Bowlnoun

A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.

Bowlnoun

As much as is held by a bowl.

Bowlnoun

A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.

Bowlnoun

The round hollow part of anything.

Bowlnoun

The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.

Bowlnoun

A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking

Bowlnoun

(typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.

Bowlnoun

A round crater (or similar) in the ground.

Bowlnoun

An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.

Bowlnoun

(American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)

Bowlnoun

The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.

Bowlnoun

The action of bowling a ball.

Bowlnoun

The game of bowls.

Bowlverb

(transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.

Bowlverb

(intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).

Bowlverb

To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.

Bowlverb

To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

Bowlnoun

A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

Bowlnoun

Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.

Bowlnoun

The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

Bowlnoun

The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.

Bowlnoun

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.

Bowlnoun

An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.

Bowlnoun

The game of tenpins or bowling.

Bowlverb

To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.

Bowlverb

To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.

Bowlverb

To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

Bowlverb

To play with bowls.

Bowlverb

To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.

Bowlverb

To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.

Bowlnoun

a round vessel that is open at the top; used for holding fruit or liquids or for serving food

Bowlnoun

a concave shape with an open top

Bowlnoun

a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods

Bowlnoun

the quantity contained in a bowl

Bowlnoun

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

Bowlnoun

a wooden ball (with flattened sides) used in the game of bowls

Bowlnoun

a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco

Bowlverb

roll (a ball)

Bowlverb

engage in the sport of bowling;

Bowlnoun

a round, deep dish or basin used for food or liquid

Bowlnoun

the contents of a bowl

Bowlnoun

a decorative round dish awarded as a prize in a competition

Bowlnoun

a rounded, concave part of an object

Bowlnoun

a pipe used to smoke marijuana, or the contents of such a pipe

Bowlnoun

a natural basin.

Bowlnoun

a stadium for sporting or musical events

Bowlnoun

an American football game played after the regular season between leading teams

Bowlnoun

a wooden or hard rubber ball, slightly asymmetrical so that it runs on a curved course, used in the game of bowls.

Bowlnoun

a large ball with indentations for gripping, used in tenpin bowling.

Bowlnoun

a wooden ball or disc used in playing skittles.

Bowlnoun

a spell or turn of bowling in cricket.

Bowlverb

roll (a ball or other round object) along the ground

Bowlverb

(of a bowler) propel (the ball) with a straight arm towards the batsman, typically in such a way that the ball bounces once

Bowlverb

dismiss (a batsman) by knocking down the wicket with the ball which one has bowled

Bowlverb

get an entire team out

Bowlverb

move rapidly and smoothly in a specified direction

Bowl

A bowl is a round dish or container typically used to prepare and serve food. The interior of a bowl is characteristically shaped like a spherical cap, with the edges and the bottom forming a seamless curve.

Platenoun

A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.

Platenoun

(uncountable) Such dishes collectively.

Platenoun

The contents of such a dish.

Platenoun

A course at a meal.

Platenoun

(figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities

Platenoun

A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.

Platenoun

A vehicle license plate.

Platenoun

A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating

Platenoun

A material covered with such a layer.

Platenoun

(dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.

Platenoun

(weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.

Platenoun

(printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.

Platenoun

An image or copy.

Platenoun

An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.

Platenoun

(dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.

Platenoun

(construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.

Platenoun

(Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".

Platenoun

(baseball) Home plate.

Platenoun

(geology) A tectonic plate.

Platenoun

(historical) Plate armour.

Platenoun

(herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.

Platenoun

A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.

Platenoun

The anode of a vacuum tube.

Platenoun

(obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin.

Platenoun

(heraldic charge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.

Platenoun

A prize given to the winner in a contest.

Platenoun

(chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.

Platenoun

A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.

Platenoun

The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.

Platenoun

(Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.

Platenoun

One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.

Platenoun

A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.

Platenoun

(furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.

Platenoun

(hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.

Platenoun

(music) A record, usually vinyl.

Platenoun

Precious metal, especially silver.

Plateverb

To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.

Plateverb

To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.

Plateverb

(baseball) To score a run.

Plateverb

To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.

Platenoun

A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.

Platenoun

Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.

Platenoun

Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.

Platenoun

Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is silver or gold throughout.

Platenoun

A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.

Platenoun

A piece of money, usually silver money.

Platenoun

A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.

Platenoun

A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.

Platenoun

That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.

Platenoun

A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.

Platenoun

A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.

Platenoun

A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.

Platenoun

A prize giving to the winner in a contest.

Platenoun

A small five-sided area (enveloping a diamond-shaped area one foot square) beside which the batter stands and which must be touched by some part of a player on completing a run; - called also home base, or home plate.

Platenoun

One of the thin parts of the bricket of an animal.

Platenoun

A very light steel racing horsehoe.

Platenoun

Loosely, a sporting contest for a prize; specif., in horse racing, a race for a prize, the contestants not making a stake.

Platenoun

Skins for fur linings of garments, sewed together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.

Platenoun

The fine nap (as of beaver, hare's wool, musquash, nutria, or English black wool) on a hat the body of which is of an inferior substance.

Platenoun

a quantity sufficient to fill a plate; a plateful; a dish containing that quantity; a plate of spaghetti.

Platenoun

the food and service supplied to a customer at a restaurant; as, the turkey dinner is $9 a plate; I'll have a plate of spaghetti.

Platenoun

a flat dish of glass or plastic with a fitted cover, used for culturing microorganisms in a laboratory.

Platenoun

the identification tag required to be displayed on the outside of a vehicle; same as license plate; - often used in the plural.

Platenoun

an agenda or schedule of tasks to be performed; I have a lot on my plate today.

Plateverb

To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.

Plateverb

To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.

Plateverb

To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.

Plateverb

To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminæ.

Plateverb

To calender; as, to plate paper.

Platenoun

a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic

Platenoun

(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score;

Platenoun

a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)

Platenoun

dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten

Platenoun

the quantity contained in a plate

Platenoun

a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly

Platenoun

the thin under portion of the forequarter

Platenoun

a main course served on a plate;

Platenoun

any flat platelike body structure or part

Platenoun

the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube

Platenoun

a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded

Platenoun

structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage

Platenoun

a shallow receptacle for collection in church

Platenoun

a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

Platenoun

a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth

Platenoun

the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws;

Plateverb

coat with a layer of metal;