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BOILING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("boiling" is a kind of...):
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("boiling" is a kind of...):
heating; warming (the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature)
evaporation; vapor; vaporisation; vaporization; vapour (the process of becoming a vapor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boiling"):
decoction mashing; decoction process ((brewing) a process in which part of the mash is removed and boiled and then returned)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb boil
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely
Example:
boiling mad
Classified under:
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Context examples:
The room was a long and lofty one, stone floored and bare, with a fire at the further end upon which a great pot was boiling.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"We're tolerable, sir, I thank you," replied Grace, lifting the boiling mess carefully on to the hob: "rather snappish, but not 'rageous."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A synthetic, brick-red crystalline solid that is only slightly soluble in cold water and ethanol but is soluble in boiling water, acetic acid, glycerol, ethylene glycol and propylene glycol.
(Phenazopyridine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
I never saw a man so thoroughly enjoy himself amid the fragrance of lemon-peel and sugar, the odour of burning rum, and the steam of boiling water, as Mr. Micawber did that afternoon.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I could see the waves boiling white under her forefoot.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
When the water in the kettle was boiling, the cook went into the bedroom to fetch Fundevogel and throw him into it.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The process of heating (without boiling) a mixture of water and an essential oil (scented liquid taken from a plant) to release a pleasant aroma.
(Aromatherapy infusion, NCI Dictionary)
An illegal drug composed of the smokable, baseform of cocaine that is produced by dissolving cocaine hydrochloride in an alkali solution, usually sodium bicarbonate and water, and subsequent boiling.
(Crack Cocaine, NCI Thesaurus)
I was boiling the kettle when I fell asleep, sir.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
‘Oh, tut, tut! sweating—rank sweating!’ he cried, throwing his fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling passion.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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