| 1. | a rather deep, round dish or basin, used chiefly for holding liquids, food, etc. |
| 2. | the contents of a bowl: a bowl of tomato soup. |
| 3. | a rounded, cuplike, hollow part: the bowl of a pipe. |
| 4. | a large drinking cup. |
| 5. | festive drinking; conviviality. |
| 6. | any bowl-shaped depression or formation. |
| 7. | an edifice with tiers of seats forming sides like those of a bowl, having the arena at the bottom; stadium. |
| 8. | Also called bowl game. a football game played after the regular season by teams selected by the sponsors of the game, usually as representing the best from a region of the country: the Rose Bowl. |
| 9. | Typography. a curved or semicircular line of a character, as of a, d, b, etc. |
| 10. | to give (a floor) a gentle inclination on all sides toward some area, as a stage or platform. |
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