Bowl
A bowl is a round, open-top container used in many cultures to serve hot and cold food. Bowls are also used for drinking, as in the case of caffè latte. Bowls used for storing non-food items range from small bowls used for holding tips at a coffee shop to large bowls used for storing DVDs or CDs. Bowls are typically small and shallow, as in the case of bowls used for single servings of soup or cereal. Some bowls, such as punch bowls, serving bowls, fruit bowls and salad bowls are larger and often intended to serve many people.
Bowls have existed for thousands of years. Very early bowls have been found in China, Ancient Greece, Crete and in certain Native American cultures. Modern bowls can be made of ceramic, metal, wood, plastic, and other materials. Their appearance can range from very simple designs of a single color to designs sophisticated artwork.
Ancient history
In examining bowls found during an archaeological dig in North America, the anthropologist Vincas Steponaitis defines a bowl by its dimensions, writing that a bowl's diameter rarely falls under half its height and that historic bowls can be classified by their edge, or lip, and shape. The British/American standard soup bowl has a mouth, the opening not including the extent of its lip, with a diameter of 18.5 centimetres, and should be able to adequately accommodate at least 24 ounces of liquid.
Bowl (disambiguation)
A bowl is a common vessel used to serve food.
Bowl(s) or The Bowl may also refer to:
Sports
- The Bowl (Utah vs. New Mexico), an annual college football game
Other uses
- Bowl, a part of a smoking pipe
See also
Bowl (smoking)
A pipe bowl, when referred to in pipe smoking, is the part of a smoking pipe or bong which is used to hold tobacco, cannabis, or other substances.
The exterior surface of the bowl of some pipes may be fashioned with some kind of design. The character Henry Flower, in James Joyce's Ulysses carries a tobacco pipe with the bowl carved into a head: "He carries a silverstringed inlaid dulcimer and a longstemmed bamboo Jacob’s pipe, its clay bowl fashioned as a female head."
Thomas Curtis' London Encyclopaedia of 1839 describes a "fumigator", an instrument found in a doctor's surgery "for injecting tobacco smoke into the anus of drowned persons, with a view to excite the irritability of the muscles". Curtis describes the best as being made by a W. Willurgby "the bowl of which is of cast brass and is large enough to contain about an ounce and a half of tobacco".
Scholarly interest in the history of the evolution of the bowl of the clay tobacco pipe, extends as far back as 1863. In the 1860s antiquaries attempted to date clay pipe bowls by their evolving shapes and sizes.
'Bowl' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Raimo's Price (2010)
Actors: Angelo Angrisani (actor), P.J. Bracco (actor), Robin Brecker (actor), Ethan Cadoff (actor), Tom Christinger (actor), Allan S. Gitlin (actor), Karl Guenther (actor), Walter Lemiska (actor), Patrick T. McGowan (actor), John Mensah (actor), John Mensah (actor), Lisa Marie Blake (actress), Mary Bonczek (actress), Araba Essien (actress), Heather Genievich (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Taglines: Starting Over Never Cost So Much.
Dai mo wai (2004)
Actors: Wai-Man Chan (actor), Steven Cheung (actor), Tat-Ming Cheung (actor), Kenny Kwan (actor), Tats Lau (actor), Kar-Ying Law (actor), Wai-Kai Law (actor), Ray Lui (actor), Quinton Wong (actor), Charlene Choi (actress), Gillian Chung (actress), Katie Kwok (actress), Nga-Bok Lee (producer), Kan-Cheung Tsang (producer), Albert Yeung (producer),
Plot: Bowl and Noodle are two idle high school students who need to evade at least three menaces each day before they can get to school. There are the nasty neighborhood bully Razor, uniformed policeman David and small-time hood Ganker who is constantly on the lookout for new blood to replenish his ever shrinking gang. Bowl and Noodle inadvertently join Ganker's gang and find a shortcut to fame but a deadly mission... With ten hours to go, there is money to spend, families to visit, idols to meet and unspoken love to be voiced.
Genres: Action,Taglines: 10 hours till dawn. 10 hours till glory ... or death
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (1974)
Actors: Fritz Bartholdt (actor), Heinrich Buttchereit (actor), Carl Heinz Choynski (actor), Johannes Conrad (actor), Victor Deiß (actor), Werner Dissel (actor), Martin Flörchinger (actor), Michael Gerber (actor), Wolfram Handel (actor), Erich Haußmann (actor), Hermann Hiesgen (actor), Wolfgang Holz (actor), Peter Kalisch (actor), Siegfried Kilian (actor), Günther Arndt (actor),
Genres: History,The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1972)
Actors: Bruce Boa (actor), Phil Brown (actor), Larry Cross (actor), Peter Frye (actor), Hal Galili (actor), Weston Gavin (actor), Hal Jeayes (actor), Al Mancini (actor), George Margo (actor), Cal McCord (actor), Frank Middlemass (actor), Mark Murphy (actor), Robert O'Neil (actor), Mark Russel (actor), James Berwick (actor),
Genres: Drama, History,Podcasts:
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The road ahead is a mystery
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The time has come
And I gotta say I'm not afraid
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I feel stronger, so much stronger
The road ahead is a mystery
Your love is here
Oh and I believe inside of me
Watch me now, I can stand my ground
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