boil

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noun

Plural noun:

boilsboylboyle

1.
A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
Đồng nghĩa: abscess, carbuncle, cyst, furuncle, pimple, pustule
2.
The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil.
3.
An instance of boiling.
Surface water will do, but give it a good boil before drinking it.
4.
A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
a down-home boil with plenty of crab
5.
(US)A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
a down-home boil at the town hall
6.
(nonstandard, rare)The collective noun for a group of hawks.
7.
(archaic)A bubbling.

verb

V_es/s

boils

V_ing/Gerund

boiling

V_ed/pp

boiledboilt

1.
(transitive)(transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
Boil some water in a pan.
Đồng nghĩa: seethe, well, plaw, cook, do
2.
(ambitransitive)To cook in boiling water.
Boil the eggs for three minutes.
Is the rice boiling yet?
3.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
4.
(New Zealand, UK, informal, transitive)To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
5.
(informal, intransitive)(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
It’s boiling outside!
Đồng nghĩa: bake, scorch, swelter
6.
(informal, intransitive)(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?
Đồng nghĩa: seethe, bake, stew
7.
(transitive)To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
to boil sugar or salt
8.
(obsolete)To steep or soak in warm water.
9.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of liquids) To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
the boiling waves of the sea
10.
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
His blood boils with anger.

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From Middle English bile, büle (boil, tumor), from Old English bȳl, bȳle (boil, swelling), from Proto-Germanic *būlijō, *būlō (boil).