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Heat vs Bowl - What's the difference?

heat | bowl |

As nouns the difference between heat and bowl

is that heat is (military) high explosive antitank: a munition using a high explosive shaped charge to breach armour 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.

heat

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hete, from (etyl) .

Noun

  • (uncountable) Thermal energy.
  • * 2007 , James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition , pages 106–108:
    • Heat' and temperature, although different, are intimately related. [...] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of ' heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their temperatures would change?if the temperature of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
  • (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
  • (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
  • (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
  • (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
  • (uncountable, slang) The police.
  • (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
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  • (countable, baseball) A fastball.
  • (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
  • (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
  • (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
  • (countable) A hot spell.
  • (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
  • (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
    • Derived terms
    * heat capacity * heat death * heat engine * heat exchanger * heat lamp * heatproof * heat pump * heat rash * heat-resistant * heat-seeking * heat shield * heat sink * heatstroke * heat treatment * heatwave * in heat * on heat

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) heten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot (often with "up").
    • I'll heat up the water.
  • To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
  • * Shakespeare:
    • Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood.
  • To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
  • * Dryden:
    • A noble emulation heats your breast.
  • To arouse, to excite (sexually).
    • The massage heated her up.
    Synonyms
    * stoke * warm up * heat up; hot up,

    Anagrams

    * English causative verbs

    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