Definitions for Boil
bɔɪlboil

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. boil, furunclenoun

   a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus

2. boiling point, boilverb

   the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level

   "they brought the water to a boil"

3. boilverb

   come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor

   "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius"

4. boilverb

   immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes

   "boil potatoes"; "boil wool"

5. boilverb

   bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point

   "boil this liquid until it evaporates"

6. churn, boil, moil, roilverb

   be agitated

   "the sea was churning in the storm"

7. seethe, boilverb

   be in an agitated emotional state

   "The customer was seething with anger"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Boilnoun

2. To Boilverb

   To heat, by putting into boiling water; to seeth.

   To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense cannot inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   In eggs boiled and roasted, into which the water entereth not at all, there is scarce any difference to be discerned. Francis Bacon.

3. To BOILverb

   Etymology: bouiller, Fr. bullio, Lat.

   1. To be agitated by heat; to fluctuate with heat.

   He saw there boil the firy whirlpools. George Chapman, Odyssey.

   Suppose the earth removed, and placed nearer to the sun, in the orbit of Mercury, there the whole ocean would boil with extremity of heat. Richard Bentley.

   2. To be hot; to be fervent, or effervescent.

   That strength with which my boiling youth was fraught,
   When in the vale of Balasor I fought. John Dryden, Aurengzebe.

   Well I knew,
   What perils youthful ardour would pursue,
   That boiling blood would carry thee too far. John Dryden, Æn.

   3. To move with an agitation like that of boiling water.

   Then headlong shoots beneath the dashing tide,
   The trembling sins the boiling waves divide. John Gay.

   In the dubious point, where, with the pool,
   Is mixt the trembling stream, or where it boils
   Around the stone. James Thomson, Spring.

   4. To be in hot liquour, in order to be made tender by the heat.

   Fillet of a fenny snake,
   In the cauldron boil and bake. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   5. To cook by boiling.

   If you live in a rich family, roasting and boiling are below the dignity of your office, and which it becomes you to be ignorant of. Jonathan Swift, Directions to the Cook.

   6. To boil over. To run over the vessel with heat.

   A few soft words and a kiss, and the good man melts; see how nature works and boils over in him. William Congreve, Old Batchel.

   This hollow was a vast cauldron, filled with melted matter, which, as it boiled over in any part, ran down the sides of the mountain. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Boil

   A boil, also called a furuncle, is a deep folliculitis, which is an infection of the hair follicle. It is most commonly caused by infection by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, resulting in a painful swollen area on the skin caused by an accumulation of pus and dead tissue. Boils which are expanded are basically pus-filled nodules. Individual boils clustered together are called carbuncles. Most human infections are caused by coagulase-positive S. aureus strains, notable for the bacteria's ability to produce coagulase, an enzyme that can clot blood. Almost any organ system can be infected by S. aureus.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. boil

   Boil refers to the process where a liquid changes to a gas due to an increase in temperature, often reaching the liquid's boiling point. It can also refer to a painful, pus-filled bump on the skin caused by bacterial infection under the skin.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Boil

   to be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils

2. Boil

   to be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves

3. Boil

   to pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away

4. Boil

   to be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger

5. Boil

   to be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling

6. Boilverb

   to heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water

7. Boilverb

   to form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt

8. Boilverb

   to subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes

9. Boilverb

   to steep or soak in warm water

10. Boilnoun

    act or state of boiling

11. Boilnoun

    a hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Boil

   boil, v.i. to bubble up from the action of heat: to be hot: to be excited or agitated.—v.t. to heat to a boiling state: to cook or dress by boiling.—ns. Boil′er, one who boils: that in which anything is boiled: a vessel in which steam, usually for a steam-engine, is generated: a vessel for heating water for baths, &c.; Boil′ing, the bubbling up of any liquid by the application of heat: the act of dressing food by boiling water.—adj. bubbling: swelling with heat or passion.—n. Boil′ing-point, the temperature at which liquids begin to boil under heat.—To boil down, to reduce in bulk by boiling, to extract the substance of, to epitomise; To boil over, to bubble over the sides of the containing vessel, to break out into unrestrained indignation. [O. Fr. boillir—L. bullīre—bulla, a bubble.]

2. Boil

   boil, n. an inflamed swelling or tumour. [A.S. býl; Ger. beule.]

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British National Corpus

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   Rank popularity for the word 'Boil' in Verbs Frequency: #993

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Boil in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Boil in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Boil in a Sentence

1. Kate Winslet:

   And what comes along with that? Eating disorders. And that makes my blood boil. And is the reason we don’t have any social media in our house. let your kids climb trees. Take the device out of their hand. Play Monopoly! You go to a cafe and grown-ups are at one end of the table and children the other, on devices, not looking up.

2. Romanian Proverb:

   Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you.

3. Maneo Motsamai:

   I boil water to cook mealie meal (maize porridge) and the power goes. I can’t eat, it’s a waste. I can’t cope like that.

4. Seth Moulton:

   Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi wants to boil this down to a personal argument, but this is so much bigger than Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, it's about the entire, stagnant, three-person leadership team and having a serious conversation about promoting leaders who reflect the future of our caucus.

5. Prime Minister David Cameron:

   You can boil down all of my negotiations to one word: flexibility. Is this organization flexible enough to make sure that countries inside the eurozone can grow and succeed, and countries outside the eurozone like Britain can find what they need as well, if it's flexible enough, we'll stay. If it's not flexible enough we'll have to ask ourselves a very profound question: is this organization for us?

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Boil
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Boil
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boil
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Boil
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Boil