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bowl
types of bowl
a soup/cereal/pudding bowl
(= for eating soup, cereal etc from )
• These work well as pasta or cereal bowls.
a salad/sugar/fruit bowl
(= for serving salad etc )
• There are some apples in the fruit bowl if you want one.
a mixing bowl
(= for mixing foods )
• Put the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl.
a serving bowl
(= for serving foods )
• She put the strawberries in a glass serving bowl.
a washing-up bowl
(= for washing the dishes in )
• a plastic washing-up bowl
a wooden/china/glass etc bowl
• I broke a china bowl.
transnet.ir
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bowl sb over
[ usually passive ] PLEASE
2. to surprise and please someone a lot
• She was bowled over when she heard she'd won the competition., bowl sb out
[ M ]
in the game of cricket, to make someone have to leave the cricket field by hitting the wicket (= three vertical sticks) behind them with the ball , bowl sb over
[ usually passive ] KNOCK DOWN
1. to knock someone to the ground by running into them
• She was almost bowled over by a huge dog., bowl down/along sth
to go quickly
• They bowled down the street on their new bicycles.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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noun ADJ. deep, shallow | empty, full | ceramic, china, crystal, cut-glass, earthenware, enamel, glass | food, fruit, porridge, pudding, punch (also punchbowl), salad, soup, sugar, water I refilled the dog's water bowl. | mixing, serving | washing-up | finger I put down the chicken bone and rinsed my fingers in the finger bowl. | begging (figurative) The school is always having to get out the begging bowl for books and basic equipment. | goldfish | lavatory, toilet VERB + BOWL fill, pour (sb), pour sth into He poured himself a bowl of soup. | empty | drink from/out of, eat from/out of BOWL + VERB contain sth, hold sth a bowl containing flour This bowl holds about four pints. | overflow The washing-up bowl was overflowing. PREP. from a/the ~ I helped myself to an apple from the bowl. | out of a/the ~ The boy was drinking milk out of a bowl. | in/into a/the ~ Mix the ingredients in a deep bowl. Sieve the flour into a bowl. | ~ of a bowl of cherries
Oxford Collocations Dictionary