Vat vs Bowl - What's the difference?
vat | bowl |
A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
(Roman Catholic) A vessel for holding holy water.
(dated) A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States. (The old Dutch grain vat averaged 0.762 Winchester bushel. The old London coal vat contained 9 bushels. The solid-measurement vat of Amsterdam contains 40 cubic feet; the wine vat, 241.57 imperial gallons, and the vat for olive oil, 225.45 imperial gallons.)
To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat.
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 vat and bowl
is that vat is ford 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.vat
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(vatt)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.