different between boil vs gurgle

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

Back formation from Middle English gurguling (“a rumbling in the belly”). Akin to Middle Dutch gorgelen (“to gurgle”), Middle Low German gorgelen (“to gurgle”), German gurgeln (“to gargle”), and perhaps to Latin gurguli? (“throat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.??l/
• Rhymes: -??(r)??l

Verb

gurgle (third-person singular simple present gurgles, present participle gurgling, simple past and past participle gurgled)

1. To flow with a bubbling sound.

   The bath water gurgled down the drain.

   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.

2. To make such a sound.

   The baby gurgled with delight.

Translations

Noun

gurgle (plural gurgles)

1. A gurgling sound.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

Translations

Anagrams

• glurge, lugger

German

Verb

gurgle

1. inflection of gurgeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I