Bowl vs Bowdlerize - What's the difference?
bowl | bowdlerize |
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
* 2010 , Mark Arax, West of the West ,
(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.
* Shakespeare
(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.
* Shakespeare
To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
* 1909 , , Ann Veronica , ch. 1:
* 1912 , , The Lost World , ch. 2:
* 1961 , J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês'' of Plato," ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association , vol. 92, p. 455:
As verbs the difference between bowl and bowdlerize
is that bowl is (label) to roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports while bowdlerize is .As a noun bowl
is a roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items or bowl can be the ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.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
* blow 1000 English basic wordsbowdlerize
English
Alternative forms
* bowdlerise, Bowdlerize, BowdleriseVerb
(bowdleriz)- The bowdlerized version of the novel, while free of vulgarity, was also free of flavor.
- Mr. Stanley decided to treat that as irrelevant. "There ought to be a Censorship of Books." . . .
- Ogilvy pursued his own topic. "I'm inclined to think, Stanley, myself that as a matter of fact it was the expurgated Romeo and Juliet did the mischief. . . . All they left it was the moon and stars. And the balcony and ‘My Romeo!’"
- "Shakespeare is altogether different from the modern stuff. Altogether different. I'm not discussing Shakespeare. I don't want to Bowdlerize Shakespeare."
- "Wadley sent a message: ‘The President of the Zoological Institute presents his compliments to Professor Challenger, and would take it as a personal favor if he would do them the honor to come to their next meeting.’ The answer was unprintable."
- "You don't say?"
- "Well, a bowdlerized version of it would run: ‘Professor Challenger presents his compliments to the President of the Zoological Institute, and would take it as a personal favor if he would go to the devil.’"
- His critics take alarm only when it becomes apparent that he would bowdlerize Homer and exclude from his state the great tragedians.