Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BOIL

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Definitions of BOIL

1. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
2. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
3. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
4. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
5. An instance of boiling.
6. A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
7. (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
8. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
9. (Scotland, archaic) A bubbling.
10. (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
11. (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.
12. (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
13. (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
14. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
15. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
16. (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
17. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.

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Examples of Using BOIL in a Sentence

• After the return of the Argonauts, Acastus's sisters were manipulated by Medea to cut their father Pelias in pieces and boil them.
• It is cognate with Gothic brunna ("spring"), Latin fervēre, from *fruur > furr by metathesis of the vowel, meaning to bubble or boil.
• To make the drink, milk was heated to a boil, then mixed with wine or ale, which curdled it, and spiced with nutmeg and cinnamon.
• If left overnight or brought nearly to a boil, the flavor of niboshi permeates the water to make the stock.
• To create a steady simmer, a liquid is brought to a boil, then its heat source is reduced to a lower, constant intensity (smaller flame on a gas stove, lower temperature on an induction/electric stove).
• The words boil, bake, fry, and roast, for example, would fall under the larger semantic category of cooking.
• The water was brought to a boil and as the steam rose, the oil from the liver dripped into the water and was skimmed off.
• By the fall of 1917, a dispute between Eddie Livingstone, owner of the Blueshirts, and the owners of the NHA's other four clubs—the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs had come to a boil.
• While working at the Valseter mountain farm near Gålå in 1863, Anne Hov (sometimes spelled Anne Haav) came up with the idea of adding cream to the whey when boiling, and to boil it down in an iron pot until the fluid content was reduced to less than 80 percent, creating a firmer, fattier, more cheese-like product.
• A boil is a localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection of the hair follicle.
• About 70 small family businesses year-round boil, cut, dry and smoke the pungent fish, often sending a unique odor of steam, smoke and fish scent across the downtown area and out to sea.
• Their language also contributed common words, such as how food was prepared: boil, broil, fry, roast, and stew, as well as words related to the nobility: prince, duke, marquess, viscount, baron, and their feminine equivalents.
• The festival is named after the ceremonial "Pongal", which means "to boil, overflow" and refers to the traditional dish prepared from the new harvest of rice boiled in milk with jaggery.
• Mizithra is made from raw, whole ewe's or goat's milk in the simplest way possible: milk is brought to a slow boil for a few minutes and then curdled by adding rennet or whey from a previous batch (see below) or else some acidic substance such as lemon juice, vinegar or even a fresh broken fig tree sprig.
• A still is an apparatus used to distill liquid mixtures by heating to selectively boil and then cooling to condense the vapor.
• Design work in the early 2010s has developed an approach to substantially reduce hydrogen boiloff, and to economically utilize the small remaining boiloff product for requisite in-space tasks, essentially achieving zero boil off (ZBO) from a practical point of view.
• Coffee and water, usually with added sugar, is brought to the boil in a special pot called cezve in Turkey, and often called ibrik elsewhere.
• On that occasion, the name Grytviken ("The Pot Cove") was given by the Swedish archaeologist and geologist Johan Gunnar Andersson who surveyed part of Thatcher Peninsula and found numerous artefacts and features from sealers’ habitation and industry, including a shallop (a type of small boat) and several try-pots used to boil seal oil.
• The Chinese writer, poet, and politician Zhang Hua of the Jin dynasty wrote in his book Bowuzhi how people in Zigong, Sichuan, excavated natural gas and used it to boil a rock salt solution.
• Notable characters on the show include Doug McKenzie of beer-swilling brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie, editorialist Bill Needle, Scottish scone-chef/bluesman Angus Crock, motor-mouthed TV ad announcer Harvey K-Tel, Lowery organist/curio pitchman Tex Boil and the "Cruising Gourmet".
• The boil can go on from four to seven hours or more, depending on quantity and the age of the peanut (green peanuts cook faster and tend to be better tasting), and the boilings will most often be of several gallons of water.
• It was about that time that lead vocalist/guitarist Michael Haaga left the group to pursue other interests and Dead Horse replaced Haaga with Austin musician Scott Sevall (ex-Force Fed) and rerecorded a new demo BOIL receiving positive review in Metal Maniacs in later 1995.
• The Pomo, Kashaya, Tolowa and Yurok of Northern California boil the leaves of western Labrador tea similarly, to make a medicinal herbal tea to help with coughs and colds.
• The Irish hydronym Bhearú has been derived from the Proto-Celtic *boru- ("boil, brew"), which would make it cognate with Borvo, the Celtic god of minerals and spring water.
• The impeachment of Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, for use as a scapegoat for a scandal by which Louis XIV bought the neutrality of Charles's government with an outright bribe, caused anti-Catholic sentiments in parliament to boil over, resulting in a parliamentary push to exclude James from the throne.

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