English | German | Russian | Czech
Englishfor English speakers
Englishas a second language
A2

boil English

Meaning boil meaning

What does boil mean?
Definitions in simple English

boil Verb

— To get to a temperature that a liquid lets out bubbles and gas at. Water boils at 100°C. Anne boiled the water in the kettle.

boil Noun

— If you bring something to a boil, you heat it to 100&;nbsp;°C. — A swelling on the skin that is filled with pus. Lots of boils started appearing on his skin.

boil

— verb come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius — verb immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes boil potatoes boil wool — verb bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point boil this liquid until it evaporates — noun a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus — noun the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level they brought the water to a boil — verb (= churn) be agitated the sea was churning in the storm — verb (= seethe) be in an agitated emotional state The customer was seething with anger

Synonyms boil synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as boil?

boil English » English

cook abscess seethe sore pimple furuncle simmer tumour swelling carbuncle bubble ulcer boiling blister tumor wound pustule effervesce bubble up roast steam sizzle rash poach fume fry decoct cook by boiling churn burn wart stew roil pus moil lump heat foam brew well wash smolder rage prepare parboil paint overflow melt infuse hot

Topics boil topics

What do people use boil to talk about?
Daily life Food Food preparation

Cooking methods
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry
Universe, creation World

Solid, liquid, gas
Universe, creation Water

Water quality
Person Healthy Disease

Skin disease
Person Healthy

Injure
Work and occupation Agriculture Growing crops Growing grass

Growing sugarcane
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move quickly
States Quality

Hot

Conjugation boil conjugation

How do you conjugate boil?

boil · verb

Examples boil examples

How do I use boil in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It takes over 40 minutes to boil an emu egg.
Boil the milk bottles.
It made my blood boil to hear that.
Boil down the report to one page.
The water will come to a boil in 5 minutes or so.
Boil the soup down until it becomes thick.
How many minutes shall I boil this frozen asparagus?
Boil some water.
Cover the potatoes with cold water and bring to the boil.
Cover the potatoes with cold water and bring to a boil.
Bring the water to a boil.
Boil the news down to a hundred words.
I'll boil you the potatoes.
I cannot even boil water, much less roast a turkey.
Water will boil if heated enough.
Please boil an egg for me.
Boil one egg.

Movie subtitles

Your pot is gonna boil over.
When your blood begins to boil, yell out.
Be sure you boil that water before you drink it.
Go light a fire on the stove. Boil water in the kettle.
Indeed, it was so hot one could boil an egg in it.
We'd rather do that than feel our blood boil!
But he wants a bottle of the boil.
When I think we let that sucker off scot-free, it makes my blood boil!
Boil some water and get some clean rags.
We have reason to believe they'll boil over.
Give them to Cookie to boil.
Again and again, I begged her to boil the drinking water.
We mustn't let what's on the stove boil ove.
The Bailey family has been a boil on my neck long enough.
Why, if I had my way, I'd boil you in oil.
I got something to fry, and I got something to boil.
Remember it? He used to stand right where you are and boil the tar out of me.
It makes my blood boil. If that ever happened, I'd wring her neck.
Boil water in the kettle.
When I see what Isobel does to Jerry, it makes me boil.
Again and again, I begged her to boil the drinking water. She wouldn't.
Folks, don't let your tempers boil over. These men will be dealt with by the law.
We mustn't let what's on the stove boil over.
Oh, I tell you, Ruth, it just makes my blood boil every time I go up there and see that poor little youngster in such an atmosphere.
It really makes my blood boil.
She has to be on the boil.
Not enough to boil an egg.
It's going off the boil.
He used to stand right where you are and boil the tar out of me.
Boil some water, lots of it.
Just see that the laundry doesn't starch my collars, boil my eggs four minutes, toast dry, coffee black and don't knock on the bathroom door.
But watch out when still water starts to boil!
We won't speak about those people any more, they make my blood boil.

News and current affairs

Finally, long-simmering tensions in the Middle East between Israel and the US on one side and Iran on the other on the issue of nuclear proliferation could reach a boil by 2013.
So long has the country been in crisis, indeed, that the question is no longer if it may boil over, but when.
So Mexico's challenges boil down to liberating the labor movement, breaking up the private monopolies and opening the public monopolies to competition, and lowering entry barriers that restrict access to the political arena.
Resentment against the advanced economies, which account for a vastly disproportionate share of global pollution and commodity consumption, could boil over.
Regardless of which new technologies arise, however, education will boil down to teachers and students.
Apart from promises to reduce employment regulation, all of the new measures boil down to officials directing state money and subsidies to companies and projects of their choosing.
Worries about globalization and the computer revolution ultimately boil down to the same thing, because globalization is mostly a consequence of new information technology.
Long-simmering disagreements between Turkey and the US came to a boil with the emergence of the Kurds of northern Iraq as the Pentagon's main allies in the Iraq War.
You can practically see the blood of US officials boil when they discuss it.
One hopes that this task has been made slightly simpler by the publication of a book in which the Copenhagen Consensus economists boil down their insights.
If the Iran crisis were to boil over, the pivot to Asia would no longer be America's main foreign-policy priority.
SDRs are highly complicated and difficult to grasp, but they boil down to the international creation of money.
Argentina's crisis has been heating up for a long time. So long has the country been in crisis, indeed, that the question is no longer if it may boil over, but when.
The meeting's timing is fortunate, because a number of critical Asian issues are coming to a boil.
Already, longstanding tensions have begun to boil over; tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets since Putin's 2011 announcement that he would reclaim the presidency.
If they ever calm down, interest rates will shoot up, and that could well bring the global economy's simmering imbalances to a raging boil.
China's Iranian interests boil down to economics.
On the other hand, talk of military intervention - which, under the circumstances, would largely boil down to air strikes - is cheap.
Publishing jingoistic, anti-foreign articles plays to national sensitivities that always simmer, and thus can easily be brought to a boil, with obvious benefits for the bottom line.
But the composed manner in which they delivered their remarks belied their countries' long-simmering tensions over the islands, which have come to a near boil in the last few months.

Are you looking for...?

boiler alarm | Boi | boid | boiler antiscaling compositions | boil away | boil down | Boidae | boiler | boil off | boiled | boil out | boil over
Wordcyclopedia Gutes Wörterbuch Толстый словарь Dobrý slovník
Sources WordNet, Open Multilingual Wordnet, Wiktionary, Dbnary, Panlex, FreeLing, Tatoeba, OpenSubtitles.org, Project Syndicate, OPUS, Kelly Project, SIL Semantic Domains
Contact info@wordcyclopedia.com
Creative Commons BY-SA