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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:
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mulse
English
Etymology
Latin mulsum (vinum), from mulsus (“mixed with honey, honey-sweet”), past participle of mulcere (“sweeten, soften”).
Noun
mulse (uncountable)
- Wine boiled and mixed with honey.
Anagrams
- Lemus, Mules, mules
Latin
Participle
mulse
- vocative masculine singular of mulsus
mulse From the web:
- mulesed wool
- what does mulse mean
- mule means
- what does mule
- what does non mulesed wool mean
- what is non mulesed wool
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