Pipe vs. Bowl — What's the Difference?
By Urooj Arif & Maham Liaqat — Updated on May 2, 2024
A pipe is a cylindrical tool used for conveying liquids or gases, while a bowl is a round, open-top container used primarily for holding food or liquids.
Difference Between Pipe and Bowl
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Key Differences
Pipes are typically part of plumbing or industrial systems, designed to transport fluids from one place to another. Whereas, bowls are commonly found in kitchens and dining areas, used for serving and eating meals.
The material of a pipe can vary from metal, plastic, to concrete, depending on its application, such as in water supply or sewage systems. On the other hand, bowls are often made from materials like ceramic, glass, or plastic, suitable for culinary use.
Pipes function by allowing a flow through them, facilitated by pressure or gravity. In contrast, bowls function as receptacles to hold substances, relying on their depth and shape to contain items.
The design of a pipe is influenced by the need for durability and the ability to withstand pressure, often being long and narrow. Meanwhile, bowls are designed based on aesthetics and practicality, being wide and shallow to accommodate a variety of contents.
Pipes are essential components in various infrastructure systems, playing crucial roles in both residential and industrial settings. Bowls, while fundamental in household and culinary contexts, are primarily used for storage and consumption of food and liquids.
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Comparison Chart
Definition
A cylindrical tool for transporting fluids.
A round, open-top container for holding contents.
Primary Use
Transporting liquids and gases.
Serving and eating food or liquids.
Material Types
Metal, plastic, concrete.
Ceramic, glass, plastic.
Functional Design
Long and narrow, withstands pressure.
Wide and shallow, designed for easy access.
Context of Use
Industrial, residential infrastructure.
Household, culinary settings.
Compare with Definitions
Pipe
Can be underground or exposed, depending on use.
The city is replacing old underground pipes to improve water quality.
Bowl
Can be decorative or functional.
The decorative bowl on the table holds fresh fruit.
Pipe
A conduit for water or gas flow.
The plumber installed a new water pipe under the sink.
Bowl
Used for eating, serving, or mixing food.
She served the salad in a large ceramic bowl.
Pipe
Requires installation and maintenance.
Regular inspections are crucial for maintaining pipe integrity.
Bowl
Comes in various sizes and materials.
For baking, he prefers using a glass mixing bowl.
Pipe
Often made of durable materials like PVC or steel.
The factory's system uses steel pipes for steam transport.
Bowl
Essential kitchen utensil found in every home.
Every kitchen needs a set of mixing bowls.
Pipe
Used in various systems from plumbing to oil transport.
Oil pipes span thousands of miles across countries.
Bowl
Often dishwasher safe, facilitating easy cleanup.
After dinner, she placed the bowls in the dishwasher.
Pipe
A tube used to convey water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances.
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.
Pipe
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 smell of pipe tobacco
Bowl
A round, deep dish or basin used for food or liquid
A mixing bowl
A sugar bowl
Pipe
A wind instrument consisting of a single tube with holes along its length that are covered by the fingers to produce different notes
The tone of a reed pipe
Bowl
A natural basin.
Pipe
A command which causes the output from one routine to be the input for another.
Bowl
A stadium for sporting or musical events
The Hollywood Bowl
Pipe
A cask for wine, especially as a measure equal to two hogsheads, usually equivalent to 105 gallons (about 477 litres)
A fresh pipe of port
Bowl
A wooden or hard rubber ball, slightly asymmetrical so that it runs on a curved course, used in the game of bowls.
Pipe
Convey (water, gas, oil, or other fluid substances) through a pipe or pipes
Water from the lakes is piped to Manchester
Bowl
A spell or turn of bowling in cricket.
Pipe
Play (a tune) on a pipe or pipes
He believed he'd heard music—a tune being piped
Bowl
Roll (a ball or other round object) along the ground
She snatched her hat off and bowled it ahead of her
Pipe
(of a bird) sing in a high or shrill voice
Outside at the back a curlew piped
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
Pipe
Decorate (clothing or soft furnishings) with thin cord covered in fabric and inserted into a seam.
Bowl
Move rapidly and smoothly in a specified direction
They bowled along the country roads
Pipe
Arrange (food, particularly icing or cream) in decorative lines or patterns
She had been piping cream round a flan
Bowl
A hemispherical vessel, wider than it is deep, used for holding food or fluids.
Pipe
Propagate (a pink or similar plant) by taking a cutting at the joint of a stem.
Bowl
The contents of such a vessel.
Pipe
A hollow cylinder or tube used to conduct a liquid, gas, or finely divided solid.
Bowl
A drinking goblet.
Pipe
A section or piece of such a tube.
Bowl
A bowl-shaped part, as of a spoon or pipe.
Pipe
A device for smoking, consisting of a tube of wood, clay, or other material with a small bowl at one end.
Bowl
A bowl-shaped topographic depression.
Pipe
An amount of smoking material, such as tobacco, needed to fill the bowl of a pipe; a pipeful.
Bowl
A bowl-shaped stadium or outdoor theater.
Pipe
A tubular part or organ of the body.
Bowl
(Football) Any of various postseason games played between specially selected teams, especially at the college level.
Pipe
Pipes The passages of the human respiratory system.
Bowl
A ball, traditionally made of wood, that is weighted or slightly flattened so as to roll with a bias, used in lawn bowling.
Pipe
A large wine cask, especially one having a capacity of 126 gallons or 2 hogsheads (478 liters).
Bowl
A roll or throw of a ball in lawn bowling and other bowling games.
Pipe
This volume as a unit of liquid measure.
Bowl
Bowls(used with a sing. verb) See lawn bowling.
Pipe
A tubular wind instrument, such as a flute.
Bowl
A revolving cylinder or drum in a machine.
Pipe
Any of the tubes in an organ.
Bowl
To participate in a game of bowling
I bowl every Thursday night in a league.
Pipe
Pipes A small wind instrument, consisting of tubes of different lengths bound together.
Bowl
To throw or roll a ball in a game of bowling
It's your turn to bowl.
Pipe
Pipes A bagpipe.
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.
Pipe
Pipes(Informal) The vocal cords; the voice, especially as used in singing.
Bowl
To move quickly and smoothly, especially by rolling
The sportscar bowled along through the countryside.
Pipe
A birdcall.
Bowl
To throw or roll (a ball).
Pipe
(Nautical) A whistle used for signaling crew members
A boatswain's pipe.
Bowl
To make (a specified score) in bowling
Placed first by bowling 237.
Bowled a strike in the first frame.
Pipe
A vertical cylindrical vein of ore.
Bowl
To perform (a specified amount, as a string or game) in bowling
She bowled eight frames before deciding to use a different ball.
Pipe
One of the vertical veins of eruptive origin in which diamonds are found in South Africa.
Bowl
To move quickly and smoothly by or as if by rolling
Bowled a tire from the garage.
Pipe
(Geology) An eruptive passageway opening into the crater of a volcano.
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.
Pipe
(Metallurgy) A cone-shaped cavity in a steel ingot, formed during cooling by escaping gases.
Bowl
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
Pipe
To convey (liquid or gas) by means of pipes.
Bowl
As much as is held by a bowl.
You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.
Pipe
To convey as if by pipes, especially to transmit by wire or cable
Piped music into the store.
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
Pipe
To provide with pipes or connect with pipes.
Bowl
A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
Pipe
To play (a tune) on a pipe or pipes.
Bowl
The round hollow part of anything.
Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.
Pipe
To lead by playing on pipes.
Bowl
The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
Pipe
To signal (crew members) with a boatswain's pipe.
Bowl
A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking
Let's smoke a bowl!
Pipe
To receive aboard or mark the departure of by sounding a boatswain's pipe.
Bowl
(typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
Pipe
To utter in a shrill reedy tone.
Bowl
(landforms) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
Pipe
To furnish (a garment or fabric) with piping.
Bowl
An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
Pipe
To force through a pastry tube, as frosting onto a cake.
Bowl
(American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
Pipe
(Slang) To take a look at; notice.
Bowl
The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
Pipe
To play on a pipe.
Bowl
The action of bowling a ball.
Pipe
To speak shrilly; make a shrill sound.
Bowl
The game of bowls.
Pipe
To chirp or whistle, as a bird does.
Bowl
(transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
Pipe
(Nautical) To signal the crew with a boatswain's pipe.
Bowl
(intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
Pipe
(Metallurgy) To develop conical cavities during solidification.
Bowl
(intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
Pipe
Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
Bowl
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
We were bowled rapidly along the road.
Pipe
(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.
Bowl
To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
Pipe
(music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
Bowl
A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
Brought them food in bowls of basswood.
Pipe
The key or sound of the voice.
Bowl
Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
Pipe
A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
Bowl
The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
Pipe
Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
Bowl
The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
Pipe
A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
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.
Pipe
A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
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.
Pipe
Meanings relating to a container.
Bowl
The game of tenpins or bowling.
Pipe
A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
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.
Pipe
The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
Bowl
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
Pipe
Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
Bowl
To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth,And bowled to death with turnips
Pipe
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.
Bowl
To play with bowls.
Pipe
A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
Bowl
To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
Pipe
(geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
Bowl
To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.
Pipe
(lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
Bowl
A round vessel that is open at the top; used for holding fruit or liquids or for serving food
Pipe
(mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
Bowl
A concave shape with an open top
Pipe
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.
Bowl
A dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods
Pipe
Meanings relating to computing.
Bowl
The quantity contained in a bowl
Pipe
(computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
Bowl
A large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
Pipe
A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
A fat pipe is a high-bandwidth connection.
Bowl
A wooden ball (with flattened sides) used in the game of bowls
Pipe
Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
Bowl
A small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco
Pipe
(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.
Bowl
Roll (a ball)
Pipe
The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
Bowl
Engage in the sport of bowling;
My parents like to bowl on Friday nights
Pipe
(slang) A telephone.
Pipe
(ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
Pipe
(intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
Pipe
(intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
Pipe
(intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
Pipe
Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
Pipe
(transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
Pipe
(transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
Pipe
(transitive) To dab moisture away from.
Pipe
To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
Pipe
) at the command line.
Pipe
To create or decorate with piping (icing).
To pipe flowers on to a cupcake
Pipe
To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
Pipe
To see.
Pipe
To invent or embellish (a story).
Pipe
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.
Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.
Pipe
Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
Pipe
A small bowl with a hollow stem, - used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
Pipe
A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
Pipe
The key or sound of the voice.
Pipe
The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.
Pipe
The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
Pipe
An elongated body or vein of ore.
Pipe
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.
Pipe
A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
Pipe
A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
Pipe
To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced.
Pipe
To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
Pipe
To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
Pipe
To become hollow in the process of solodifying; - said of an ingot, as of steel.
Pipe
To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes.
Pipe
To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft.
Pipe
To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
Pipe
A tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
Pipe
A long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
Pipe
A hollow cylindrical shape
Pipe
A tubular wind instrument
Pipe
The flues and stops on a pipe organ
Pipe
Utter a shrill cry
Pipe
Transport by pipeline;
Pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert
Pipe
Play on a pipe;
Pipe a tune
Pipe
Trim with piping;
Pipe the skirt
Common Curiosities
Can bowls be used for anything other than food?
Yes, bowls can also be used for decorative purposes or as part of craft projects.
What types of materials are best for kitchen bowls?
Ceramic, glass, and food-grade plastic are popular for kitchen bowls due to their durability and safety.
What are some common problems associated with pipes?
Leakage, blockage, and corrosion are common issues that can affect pipes.
Are pipes always round?
Most pipes are round because this shape withstands internal pressures evenly, but there are exceptions based on specific needs.
What is the primary function of a pipe?
The primary function of a pipe is to transport fluids or gases from one place to another.
What differentiates pipes used in industrial settings from those in residential areas?
Industrial pipes are often larger and made from stronger materials to handle higher pressures and corrosive substances.
How should ceramic bowls be cared for?
Ceramic bowls should be handled carefully to avoid chips and cracks and can often be washed in a dishwasher.
Can bowls be made from materials other than ceramic or glass?
Yes, bowls can also be made from materials like wood, metal, or biodegradable substances.
How do you maintain pipes in a home setting?
Regular checks for leaks, clogs, and corrosion are essential to maintain home pipes.
Are there any specific uses for bowls in professional culinary settings?
In professional kitchens, bowls are essential for preparing, mixing, and serving food efficiently.
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