boilnoun詞源 1/bɔɪ(ə)l/

• 1

  A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

boilnoun詞源 2/bɔɪ(ə)l/

• 1

  The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.

  • Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil.
• 2

  An instance of boiling.

  • Surface water will do, but give it a good boil before drinking it.
• 3

  A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.

  • a down-home boil with plenty of crab
  • This is Brad's classic shrimp boil—a recipe he makes for every tailgate party. Brad demands, “Don't use utensils!” INGREDIENTS: Two 6-ounce boxes Old Bay crab/shrimp boil seasoning[…]
• 4

  A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)

  • a down-home boil at the town hall
  • Men and boys also learn to cook at the public and semipublic food events at which men are the primary cooks. These include crawfish and seafood boils, family boucheries, and community festivals. For example, at one crab boil I attended, a grandfather and his eight-year-old grandson cooked the second batch of crabs […]. The advent of crawfish farming has expanded the availability of live crawfish beyond the old seasonal limits just described, but few Cajuns in St. Martin Parish have crawfish boils, or eat crawfish in any form, out of season.
• 5

  rareA group of hawks.

  • Hawks often look at each other as they ride their thermals, and if one is rising more rapidly, dozens of hawks—even hundreds—will join it, forming a "kettle" or a "boil" of hawks, one of the most spectacular sights in the bird world.
  • The clouds last evening: white, bountiful, against a field of cerulean sky. A boil of hawks darted above me.
• 6

  archaicA bubbling.

  • He swam to the place where Mary disappeared but there was neither boil nor gurgle on the water, nor even a bell of departing breath, to mark the place where his beloved had sunk.
  • The sea round them clouded and darkened, and then frizzed up in showers of tiny silver fish, and over a space of five or six acres the cod began to leap like trout in May; while behind the cod three or four broad gray-backs broke the water into boils.

boilverb詞源 2/bɔɪ(ə)l/

• 1

  To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

  • Boil some water in a pan.
• 2

  To cook in boiling water.

  • Boil the eggs for three minutes.
  • Is the rice boiling yet?
• 3

  To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.

  • Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
• 4

  informalTo bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.

  • 'I'll boil the kettle,' he said.
• 5

  informalTo be uncomfortably hot.

  • It’s boiling outside!
• 6

  informalTo feel uncomfortably hot.

  • I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?
• 7

  To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.

  • to boil sugar or salt
  • Another leader in the packaged product business was the Procter & Gamble Company, formed in Cincinnati in 1837 by William Procter, who molded candles, and his brother-in-law, James Gamble, who boiled soap.
• 8

  obsoleteTo steep or soak in warm water.

  • To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense cannot inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner.