Pipe vs. Bowl — What's the Difference?

A tube used to convey water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances.

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.

A device for smoking tobacco, consisting of a narrow tube made from wood, clay, etc. with a bowl at one end in which the tobacco is burned, the smoke from which is drawn into the mouth

A round, deep dish or basin used for food or liquid

A wind instrument consisting of a single tube with holes along its length that are covered by the fingers to produce different notes

A natural basin.

A command which causes the output from one routine to be the input for another.

A stadium for sporting or musical events

A cask for wine, especially as a measure equal to two hogsheads, usually equivalent to 105 gallons (about 477 litres)

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

Convey (water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances) through a pipe or pipes

A spell or turn of bowling in cricket.

Play (a tune) on a pipe or pipes

Roll (a ball or other round object) along the ground

(of a bird) sing in a high or shrill voice

(of a bowler) propel (the ball) with a straight arm towards the batsman, typically in such a way that the ball bounces once

Decorate (clothing or soft furnishings) with thin cord covered in fabric and inserted into a seam.

Move rapidly and smoothly in a specified direction

Arrange (food, particularly icing or cream) in decorative lines or patterns

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

Propagate (a pink or similar plant) by taking a cutting at the joint of a stem.

The contents of such a vessel.

A hollow cylinder or tube used to conduct a liquid, gas, or finely divided solid.

A drinking goblet.

A section or piece of such a tube.

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

A device for smoking, consisting of a tube of wood, clay, or other material with a small bowl at one end.

A bowl-shaped topographic depression.

An amount of smoking material, such as tobacco, needed to fill the bowl of a pipe; a pipeful.

A bowl-shaped stadium or outdoor theater.

A tubular part or organ of the body.

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

Pipes The passages of the human respiratory system.

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

A large wine cask, especially one having a capacity of 126 gallons or 2 hogsheads (478 liters).

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

This volume as a unit of liquid measure.

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

A tubular wind instrument, such as a flute.

A revolving cylinder or drum in a machine.

Any of the tubes in an organ.

To participate in a game of bowling

Pipes A small wind instrument, consisting of tubes of different lengths bound together.

To throw or roll a ball in a game of bowling

Pipes A bagpipe.

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

Pipes(Informal) The vocal cords; the voice, especially as used in singing.

To move quickly and smoothly, especially by rolling

A birdcall.

To throw or roll (a ball).

(Nautical) A whistle used for signaling crew members

To make (a specified score) in bowling

A vertical cylindrical vein of ore.

To perform (a specified amount, as a string or game) in bowling

One of the vertical veins of eruptive origin in which diamonds are found in South Africa.

To move quickly and smoothly by or as if by rolling

(Geology) An eruptive passageway opening into the crater of a volcano.

To meet or strike with or as if with the force of a rapidly rolling object

(Metallurgy) A cone-shaped cavity in a steel ingot, formed during cooling by escaping gases.

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

To convey (liquid or gas) by means of pipes.

As much as is held by a bowl.

To convey as if by pipes, especially to transmit by wire or cable

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

To provide with pipes or connect with pipes.

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

To play (a tune) on a pipe or pipes.

The round hollow part of anything.

To lead by playing on pipes.

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

To signal (crew members) with a boatswain's pipe.

A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking

To receive aboard or mark the departure of by sounding a boatswain's pipe.

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

To utter in a shrill reedy tone.

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

To furnish (a garment or fabric) with piping.

An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.

To force through a pastry tube, as frosting onto a cake.

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

(Slang) To take a look at; notice.

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

To play on a pipe.

The action of bowling a ball.

To speak shrilly; make a shrill sound.

The game of bowls.

To chirp or whistle, as a bird does.

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

(Nautical) To signal the crew with a boatswain's pipe.

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

(Metallurgy) To develop conical cavities during solidification.

(intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.

Meanings relating to a wind instrument.

To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.

(musical instrument) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.

To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

(music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.

A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

The key or sound of the voice.

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

A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.

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

Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.

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

A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.

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.

A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.

An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.

(slang) A man's penis.

The game of tenpins or bowling.

Meanings relating to a container.

To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.

A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)

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

The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.

To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.

To play with bowls.

Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.

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

A type of pasta similar to macaroni.

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

(geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.

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

(lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.

A concave shape with an open top

(mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.

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

An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.

The quantity contained in a bowl

Meanings relating to computing.

A large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

(computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.

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

A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.

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

Meanings relating to a smoking implement.

Roll (a ball)

(smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.

Engage in the sport of bowling;

The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.

(slang) A telephone.

(ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.

(intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.

(intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

(intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.

(transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.

(transitive) To install or configure with pipes.

(transitive) To dab moisture away from.

To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.

) at the command line.

To create or decorate with piping (icing).

To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.

To have sexual intercourse with a female.

To see.

To invent or embellish (a story).

A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.

Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.

A small bowl with a hollow stem, - used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.

A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.

The key or sound of the voice.

The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.

The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.

An elongated body or vein of ore.

A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; - so called because put together like a pipe.

A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.

A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.

To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.

To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.

To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

To become hollow in the process of solodifying; - said of an ingot, as of steel.

To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.

To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.

To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.

A tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco

A long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.

A hollow cylindrical shape

A tubular wind instrument

The flues and stops on a pipe organ

Utter a shrill cry

Transport by pipeline;

Play on a pipe;

Trim with piping;