different between boil vs froth

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)

1. 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)

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. (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)

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

2. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
3. (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.

4. (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.

5. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.

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

7. (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
8. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
9. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
10. 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

English

Etymology

From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþ?; Old English ?fr?oþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f???/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /f???/
• Rhymes: -??, Rhymes: -???

Noun

froth (countable and uncountable, plural froths)

1. foam

2. (figuratively) unimportant events or actions; drivel

   Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth?

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

froth (third-person singular simple present froths, present participle frothing, simple past and past participle frothed)

1. (transitive) To create froth in (a liquid).
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Book Two, Chapter 7, [1]

     One lacquey carried the chocolate-pot into the sacred presence; a second, milled and frothed the chocolate with the little instrument he bore for that function; a third, presented the favoured napkin; a fourth (he of the two gold watches), poured the chocolate out.

   I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.

2. (intransitive) (of a liquid) To bubble.
   • 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” lines 21-4, [2]

     Colder and louder blew the wind,

     A gale from the Northeast,

     The snow fell hissing in the brine,

     And the billows frothed like yeast.

   • 1973, “Black Day in Brussels,” Time, 19 February, 1973, [3]

     English beer, along with European brews, is already the subject of an EEC investigation to determine whether additives like stabilizers (used to prevent frothing during shipment) should be allowed.

3. (transitive) To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
   • 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, a Tragedy, Act I, Scene 1, [4]

     The Mufti reddens; mark that holy cheek.

     He frets within, froths treason at his mouth,

     And churns it thro’ his teeth […]

   • 1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Merlin and Vivien” in Idylls of the King, [5]

     […] is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?

4. (intransitive) (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.
   • 1958, Nikos Kazantzakis, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938), translated by Kimon Friar, London: Secker and Warburg, Book XIII,

     The clumsy suckling struck out with her still soft claws,

     opened her frothing mouth until her milk teeth shone.

   • 1962, “Riding Crime's Crest” in Time, 25 April, 1962, [6]

     As doctors tried in vain to save April's right eye, news stories frothed at her assailant. He was “fiendish” (the Examiner), “sadistic” (the News-Call Bulletin), “probably a sexual psychopath” (the Chronicle).

5. (transitive) To cover with froth.

   A horse froths his chain.

Translations

Derived terms

• frothy
• froth at the mouth
• froth up

References

Anagrams

• Forth, forth, forth-