Oar vs Bowl - What's the difference?
oar | bowl |
An implement used to propel a boat or a ship in the water, having a flat blade at one end, being rowed from the other end and being normally fastened to the vessel.
An oarsman; a rower.
(zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.
To row; to propel with oars.
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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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As nouns the difference between oar and bowl
is that oar is while 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.As a verb bowl is
(label) to roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.oar
English
(wikipedia oar)Noun
(en noun)- He is a good oar .
Synonyms
* (implement used to propel a boat) paddleDerived terms
* stick one's oar inVerb
(en verb)- Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean.
Anagrams
* * * ----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.