noun
Meaning 1
One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
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Standard Lemma guide
boule
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/buːl/
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CMU ARPABET: B UW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
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noun
Meaning 3
A round loaf of bread.
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noun
Meaning 4
A round piece of dough.
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noun
Meaning 5
A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
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noun
Meaning 6
Alternative form of buhl.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Topics: arts, business, carpentry, construction, crafts, hobbies, lifestyle, manufacturing, woodworking
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noun
Meaning 7
A council of citizens in Ancient Greece
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Usage: historical
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verb
Meaning 8
To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball.
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Usage: nonstandard, rare, transitive
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 9
an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: boulle, buhl
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Broader terms: embellishment
History
Etymology
From French boule. Doublet of bull (etymologies 2 and 4) and bulla, or of bowl and pulla, depending on the etymology of the French word.
Alteration of Boulle. See buhl.
Etymology tree Ancient Greek βούλομαι (boúlomai) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek βουλή (boulḗ)bor. English boule Borrowed from Ancient Greek βουλή (boulḗ).
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: un pa — A round loaf of bread
- Catalan: fogassa — A round loaf of bread
- Persian: کوماج (kumâj) — A round loaf of bread
- Spanish: bola — A round loaf of bread
- Spanish: pan bola — A round loaf of bread
- Spanish: bolla — A round loaf of bread
- Catalan: bolla — A round piece of dough
- Spanish: bola — A round piece of dough
- Italian: bulè — Translations
- Spanish: bolear — Shape a piece of dough into a ball