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A transparent bowl in which small fish are kept
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fishbowl
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A small simple aquarium. 2 A term describing a place or event of intense scrutiny. Enthusiastic sports cities are often said to place the players on their team in a "fishbowl" atmosphere.
WordNet
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n. a state of affairs in which you have no privacy; "the president lives in a goldfish bowl" [syn: goldfish bowl , fish bowl ] a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept [syn: fish bowl , goldfish bowl ]
Wikipedia
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Fishbowl is a mobile phone architecture developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to provide a secure Voice over IP (VoIP) capability using commercial grade products that can be approved to communicate classified information . It is the first ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He had never been comfortable in the fishbowl . ▪ Then I walked in and he had this thing in a big fishbowl sitting up on the table beside his bed. ▪ Two uniformed men sat inside an armour-glass fishbowl in the centre of the floor. ...
Usage examples of fishbowl.
Ninth Circuit Court judge whose wife had beaned him with a fishbowl during an argument about his alledged extramarital affair--the assassination protocols had been downgraded.
They could make no objection, wronged as they felt themselves to be, when Sister Mary Philomel organized them into after-school work details, to clean the fishbowl her fat carp swam in, to cut out turkeys and shamrocks and lilies green and white to festoon her walls at the proper seasons, not even when she took it on herself to have them mop their bedroom floors and remake their beds, like prison trusties.
In your house they could be breeding in flower vases, saucers underneath houseplants, or even fishbowls and aquariums.
A woman with a blue face wandered past, holding a fishbowl of prophylactics and wearing a sign PRACTICE GLOVE LOVE.
From time to time, customers had crossed the cocktail lounge to drop folding money into a fishbowl atop the piano, tips for the musician.
The Raven's voice is a comforting rasp in my fishbowl, what with the thought of those aliens storming our world down below.