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Bowl vs. Tub — What's the Difference?

Bowl vs. Tub — What's the Difference?

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Bowl

A bowl is a round dish or container typically used to prepare and serve food. The interior of a bowl is characteristically shaped like a spherical cap, with the edges and the bottom forming a seamless curve.

Tub

A wide, open, deep, typically round container with a flat bottom used for holding liquids, growing plants, etc.
A rainwater tub

Bowl

A round, deep dish or basin used for food or liquid
A mixing bowl
A sugar bowl

Tub

A short, broad boat that handles awkwardly
The old tub's in need of a refit

Bowl

A natural basin.
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Tub

Plant in a tub
Tubbed fruit trees

Bowl

A stadium for sporting or musical events
The Hollywood Bowl

Tub

Wash or bathe in or as in a tub or bath
Even your formal evening gown can be tubbed

Bowl

A wooden or hard rubber ball, slightly asymmetrical so that it runs on a curved course, used in the game of bowls.

Tub

An open, flat-bottomed vessel, usually round and typically wider than it is deep, used for washing, packing, or storing.

Bowl

A spell or turn of bowling in cricket.

Tub

The amount that such a vessel can hold.

Bowl

Roll (a ball or other round object) along the ground
She snatched her hat off and bowled it ahead of her

Tub

The contents of such a vessel.

Bowl

(of a bowler) propel (the ball) with a straight arm towards the batsman, typically in such a way that the ball bounces once
Sobers bowled to Willis
Lillee bowled another bouncer

Tub

A bathtub.

Bowl

Move rapidly and smoothly in a specified direction
They bowled along the country roads

Tub

(Informal) A bath taken in a bathtub.

Bowl

A hemispherical vessel, wider than it is deep, used for holding food or fluids.

Tub

(Informal) A wide, clumsy, slow-moving boat.

Bowl

The contents of such a vessel.

Tub

A bucket used for conveying ore or coal up a mine shaft.

Bowl

A drinking goblet.

Tub

A coal car used in a mine.

Bowl

A bowl-shaped part, as of a spoon or pipe.

Tub

To pack or store in a tub.

Bowl

A bowl-shaped topographic depression.

Tub

To wash or bathe in a tub.

Bowl

A bowl-shaped stadium or outdoor theater.

Tub

To take a bath.

Bowl

(Football) Any of various postseason games played between specially selected teams, especially at the college level.

Tub

A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
He bought a tub of lard to roast the potatoes in.

Bowl

A ball, traditionally made of wood, that is weighted or slightly flattened so as to roll with a bias, used in lawn bowling.

Tub

The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
She added a tub of margarine to the stew.

Bowl

A roll or throw of a ball in lawn bowling and other bowling games.

Tub

A bathtub.

Bowl

Bowls(used with a sing. verb) See lawn bowling.

Tub

A slow-moving craft.

Bowl

A revolving cylinder or drum in a machine.

Tub

Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.

Bowl

To participate in a game of bowling
I bowl every Thursday night in a league.

Tub

A small cask.
A tub of gin

Bowl

To throw or roll a ball in a game of bowling
It's your turn to bowl.

Tub

Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).

Bowl

To hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch toward the batsman at the other, keeping the arm straight throughout the delivery.

Tub

(mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.

Bowl

To move quickly and smoothly, especially by rolling
The sportscar bowled along through the countryside.

Tub

(obsolete) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

Bowl

To throw or roll (a ball).

Tub

(slang) A corpulent or obese person.

Bowl

To make (a specified score) in bowling
Placed first by bowling 237.
Bowled a strike in the first frame.

Tub

(transitive) To plant, set, or store in a tub.
To tub a plant

Bowl

To perform (a specified amount, as a string or game) in bowling
She bowled eight frames before deciding to use a different ball.

Tub

(ambitransitive) To bathe in a tub.

Bowl

To move quickly and smoothly by or as if by rolling
Bowled a tire from the garage.

Tub

An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, - used for various purposes.

Bowl

To meet or strike with or as if with the force of a rapidly rolling object
The swimmer was bowled over by the wave.

Tub

The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc.

Bowl

A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.

Tub

Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., - often used jocosely or opprobriously.
All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth.

Bowl

As much as is held by a bowl.
You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.

Tub

A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

Bowl

(cooking) 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.
Poke bowl

Tub

A small cask; as, a tub of gin.

Bowl

A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.

Tub

A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; - so called by miners.

Bowl

The round hollow part of anything.
Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.

Tub

To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.

Bowl

The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.

Tub

To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.
Don't we all tub in England ?

Bowl

A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking
Let's smoke a bowl!

Tub

A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body

Bowl

(typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.

Tub

A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids

Bowl

(landforms) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.

Tub

The amount that a tub will hold;
A tub of water

Bowl

An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.

Bowl

(American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)

Bowl

The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.

Bowl

The action of bowling a ball.

Bowl

The game of bowls.

Bowl

(transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.

Bowl

(intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).

Bowl

(intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.

Bowl

To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
We were bowled rapidly along the road.

Bowl

To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

Bowl

A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
Brought them food in bowls of basswood.

Bowl

Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.

Bowl

The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

Bowl

The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.

Bowl

A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.

Bowl

An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
Like an uninstructed bowler, . . . who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it.

Bowl

The game of tenpins or bowling.

Bowl

To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven.

Bowl

To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.

Bowl

To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth,And bowled to death with turnips

Bowl

To play with bowls.

Bowl

To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.

Bowl

To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.

Bowl

A round vessel that is open at the top; used for holding fruit or liquids or for serving food

Bowl

A concave shape with an open top

Bowl

A dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods

Bowl

The quantity contained in a bowl

Bowl

A large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

Bowl

A wooden ball (with flattened sides) used in the game of bowls

Bowl

A small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco

Bowl

Roll (a ball)

Bowl

Engage in the sport of bowling;
My parents like to bowl on Friday nights

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