boil

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Synonyms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.3.2 Verb 1.3.2.1 Synonyms 1.3.2.2 Antonyms 1.3.2.3 Derived terms 1.3.2.4 Translations 1.3.3 See also 1.3.4 See also 1.4 Anagrams

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[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /bɔɪl/, SAMPA: /bOIl/

  Rhymes: -ɔɪl

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English bile, from Old English.

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boil (plural boils)

1. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

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• abscess, carbuncle, pimple, pustule

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Old French boillir (French: bouillir), from Latin bullīre, present active infinitive of bulliō (“‘I bubble, boil’”), from bulla (“‘bubble’”).

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boil (plural boils)

1. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.

   Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil.

2. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
3. The collective noun for a group of hawks.

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to boil (third-person singular simple present boils, present participle boiling, simple past and past participle boiled)

1. (transitive) To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

   Boil some water in a pan.

2. (transitive) To cook in boiling water.

   Boil the eggs for two minutes.

3. (intransitive) Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas.

   Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.

4. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.

   It’s boiling outside!

5. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.

   I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?

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• (of the weather): be baking, be scorching, be sweltering
• (of a person): be baking, be stewing

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• (of a liquid): condense
• (of the weather): be freezing
• (of a person): be freezing

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• azeotrope
• bullion
• bully beef
• burn
• cathepsin
• comfrey
• eczema
• effervesce
• fervent
• fervor
• phreatic
• pot-walloper
• samovar
• zeolite

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• bake
• condense
• freeze
• fry
• grill
• poach
• steam

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: bilo
• biol, biol.