What is the difference between bowl and basin?
bowl | basin |
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
As much as is held by a bowl.
A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
a part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking
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(label) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
(label) a postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
The action of bowling a ball.
The game of bowls.
(label) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
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(label) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
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A bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.
(geography) An area of land from which water drains into a specific river.
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(geography) A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.
As nouns the difference between bowl and basin
is that bowl is a roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items while basin is a bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.As a verb bowl
is to roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.As a proper noun Basin is
a CDP in Montana.bowl
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), .Noun
(en noun)page 221
- “Purple smoke is no joke. Especially when it is real purple. The smell, taste, and high is easily one of the best in the world. One bowl of some purple Kush, and I'm done for a couple of hours.
- Let's smoke a bowl!
Synonyms
* (as much as is held by a bowl) bowlful * (haircut) bowl cut, pudding bowl * (crater) crater, hollowDerived terms
{{der3, bowl cut, bowl-cut , bowl game , dustbowl , fruit bowl , mixing bowl , pudding bowl , salad bowl , singing bowl , soup bowl , toilet bowl}}Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (bowls) lawn bowls, lawn bowlingVerb
(en verb)- Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, / And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven.
- Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, / And bowled to death with turnips.
Derived terms
{{der3, bowl along , bowler , bowling , bowling alley , bowling ball , bowl out , bowl over}}Anagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin' is an endorheic, or closed, ' basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}
