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Slice vs Bowl - What's the difference?

slice | bowl |

As nouns the difference between slice and bowl

is that slice is that which is thin and broad 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 verbs the difference between slice and bowl

is that slice is to cut into slices while bowl is (label) to roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.

slice

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which is thin and broad.
  • A thin, broad piece cut off.
  • a slice''' of bacon''; ''a '''slice''' of cheese''; ''a '''slice of bread
  • amount
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Blackpool, chasing a seventh win in 17 league matches, simply could not contain Sunderland's rampant attack and had to resort to a combination of last-ditch defending, fine goalkeeping and a large slice of fortune. }}
  • A piece of pizza.
  • * 2010 , Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
  • For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
  • (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
  • I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
  • A broad, thin piece of plaster.
  • A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
  • A salver, platter, or tray.
  • A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
  • One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
  • (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
  • (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
  • (Australia, NZ) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
  • (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
  • (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
  • Derived terms

    * hyperslice

    Verb

    (slic)
  • To cut into slices.
  • Slice the cheese thinly.
  • To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
  • The knife left sliced his arm.
  • (golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
  • (soccer)
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 22 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner. }}
  • To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
  • Derived terms

    * sliceable

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    bowl

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 , 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!
  • (label) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
  • (label) a postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
  • Synonyms
    * (as much as is held by a bowl) bowlful * (haircut) bowl cut, pudding bowl * (crater) crater, hollow
    Derived 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)
  • The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
  • The action of bowling a ball.
  • The game of bowls.
  • Synonyms
    * (bowls) lawn bowls, lawn bowling

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, / And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven.
  • (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
  • 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 words