boil

== English == === Alternative forms === (obsolete) boyl, boyle === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /bɔɪ(ə)l/ (Indic) IPA(key): /bɔj(ᵻ)l/, (father-bother merger) /bɑj(ᵻ)l/ Rhymes: -ɔɪl === Etymology 1 === From Middle English bile, büle (“boil, tumor”), from Old English bȳl, bȳle (“boil, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *būlijō, *būlō (“boil”). Akin to Dutch buil (“boil, swelling”), German Beule (“boil, hump”), Icelandic beyla (“swelling, hump”). The expected form is bile; the rounding of the diphthong could be caused by the initial b- and/or by association with etymology 2. ==== Noun ==== boil (plural boils) A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection. Synonyms: abscess, carbuncle, cyst, furuncle, pimple, pustule ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== Further reading ===== Boil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Etymology 2 === From Middle English boillen, from Old French boillir (see French bouillir) from Latin bullīre (“to bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”). Displaced native Old English weallan (intransitive) and wiellan (transitive). More at wall, well. ==== Noun ==== boil (plural boils) The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point. An instance of boiling. A dish of boiled food, especially seafood. (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.) (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks. (archaic) A bubbling. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== boil (third-person singular simple present boils, present participle boiling, simple past and past participle boiled or (nonstandard, regional) boilt) (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas. Synonyms: seethe, well, (UK, dialectal, dated, uncommon) plaw; see also Thesaurus:cook Antonym: condense (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water. (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe. (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot. Synonyms: be baking, be scorching, be sweltering Antonym: be freezing (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot. Synonyms: be seething, be baking, be stewing Antonym: be freezing (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water. (intransitive, of liquids) To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== ===== Further reading ===== Boiling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Boli, lobi, biol., boli, biol, Bilo, bilo