bowlとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /bəʊɫ/, [bɔʊɫ]
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /boʊɫ/
• 韻: -əʊl

語源 1

From Middle English bolle, from 古期英語 bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“ball, round vessel, bowl”).

Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”).

名詞

bowl (複数形 bowls)

1. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
2. As much as is held by a bowl.

   You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.

3. A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.

   This restaurant offers a number of different bowls.

4. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
5. The round hollow part of anything.

   Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.

   1. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
   2. A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking
      • 2010, Mark Arax, West of the West‎^[1], 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!

   3. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
6. A round crater (または similar) in the ground.
7. (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
8. (米国用法 football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)

同意語

• (as much as is held by a bowl): bowlful
• (haircut): bowl cut, pudding bowl
• (crater): crater, hollow

派生語

派生した語

語源 2

From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, stud, round object”). Doublet of poll.

名詞

bowl (複数形 bowls)

1. The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
2. The action of bowling a ball.
3. (in the plural, but used with a 単数形 verb) The game of bowls.

   Synonyms: lawn bowls, lawn bowling

動詞

bowl (三人称単数 現在形 bowls, 現在分詞 bowling, 過去形および過去分詞形 bowled)

1. (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:

     Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, / And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven.

2. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket かつ similar games かつ sports).
3. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.

   We were bowled rapidly along the road.

4. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iv]:

     Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, / And bowled to death with turnips.

派生語

派生した語

• → Danish: bowle
• → Dutch: bowlen