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boil
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Etymology 1
From Middle English bile, büle (“boil, tumor”), from Old English b?l, b?le (“boil, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *b?lij?, *b?l? (“boil”). Akin to German Beule (“boil, hump”), Icelandic beyla (“swelling, hump”).
Noun
boil (plural boils)
- A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- sand boil (pathology)
Translations
Further reading
- Boil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English boillen, from Old French boillir (French: bouillir) from Latin bull?re, present active infinitive of bulli? (“I bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”). Displaced native Middle English sethen (“to boil”) (from Old English s?oþan (“to boil, seethe”)), Middle English wellen (“to boil, bubble”) (from Old English wiellan (“to bubble, boil”)), Middle English wallen (“to well up, boil”) (from Old English weallan (“to well up, boil”)). More at seethe, well.
Noun
boil (plural boils)
- The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
- Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil.
- A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
- (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
boil (third-person singular simple present boils, present participle boiling, simple past and past participle boiled)
- (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- (transitive, Britain, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 20–21:
- I'll boil the kettle.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 20–21:
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
- (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
- (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
- To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
- To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
Synonyms
- (of a liquid): seethe, well, plaw (UK, dialectal, dated, uncommon); see also Thesaurus:cook
- (of the weather): be baking, be scorching, be sweltering
- (of a person): be seething, be baking, be stewing
Antonyms
- (of a liquid): condense
- (of the weather): be freezing
- (of a person): be freezing
Derived terms
Related terms
- ebullient
Translations
See also
- bake
- condense
- freeze
- fry
- grill
- poach
- steam
Further reading
- Boiling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- bilo, biol, biol., boli, lobi
boil From the web:
- what boils faster
- what boiling point
- what boils at what temperature
- what boiling water looks like
- what boils look like
- what boils at room temperature
- what boils water faster
- what boils at 100 degrees celsius
fizz
English
Etymology
Onomatopoeia.
Pronunciation
- enPR: f?z, IPA(key): /f?z/
- Rhymes: -?z
Noun
fizz (countable and uncountable, plural fizzes)
- An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.
- I poured a cola and waited for the fizz to settle down before topping off the glass.
- The sound of such an emission.
- Evan sat back in the hot tub and listened to the relaxing fizz and pops produced by the eruption of bubbles.
- A carbonated beverage, especially champagne.
- Nathan ordered an orange fizz from the soda jerk at the counter.
Synonyms
- (emission of bubbles): effervescence, foam, froth, head
- (sound of bubbles): bubble, fizzle, hiss, sputter
- (carbonated beverage): pop, seltzer, soda, tonic
Translations
Verb
fizz (third-person singular simple present fizzes, present participle fizzing, simple past and past participle fizzed)
- (intransitive) To emit bubbles.
- (intransitive) To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound.
- the fizzing fuse of a bomb
- (intransitive) To shoot or project something moving at great velocity.
- To travel at a great velocity, producing a sound caused by the speed.
Synonyms
- (emit bubbles): bubble, effervesce, foam, froth
- (make bubbling sound): fizzle, hiss, sizzle, sputter
Derived terms
- fizzy
Translations
fizz From the web:
- what fizzes in water
- what fizzes with vinegar
- what fizzle means
- what fizzles
- what fizz means
- what fizzes when mixed with water
- what fizzy means
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