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Definition of Boiling

1. Noun. The application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas.

2. Adverb. Extremely. "Boiling mad"

3. Noun. Cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil.

Definition of Boiling

1. a. Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.

2. n. The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.

Definition of Boiling

1. Verb. (present participle of boil) ¹

2. Noun. The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point. ¹

3. Adjective. That boils or boil. ¹

4. Adjective. (context: of a thing informal hyperbole) Extremely hot. ¹

5. Adjective. (context: of a person informal hyperbole) Feeling uncomfortably hot. ¹

6. Adjective. (context: of the weather hyperbole) Very hot. ¹

7. Adverb. (context: of adjectives associated with heat) Extremely ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Boiling

1. boil [v] - See also: boil

Medical Definition of Boiling

1. Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena of ebullition. This is different for different liquids, and for the same liquid under different pressures. For water, at the level of the sea, barometer 30 in, it is 212 deg Fahrenheit; for alcohol.96 deg; for ether.8 deg; for mercury, about 675 deg . The boiling point of water is lowered one degree Fahrenheit for about 550 feet of ascent above the level of the sea. Boiling spring, a spring which gives out very hot water, or water and steam, often ejecting it with much force; a geyser. To be at the boiling point, to be very angry. To keep the pot boiling, to keep going on actively, as in certain games. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boiling

boileries boilermaker boilermaker's deafness boilermakers boilerman boilermen boilerplate boilerplates boilers boilers suit

boilersuit boilersuited boilersuits boilery boiley boiling (current term) boiling frog boiling hot boiling point boiling point elevation

boiling points boiling water reactor boilingly boilings boiloff boiloffs boilover boilovers boils boine

Literary usage of Boiling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1869)
"On the Action of Solid Nuclei in liberating Vapour from boiling Liquids." By CHARLES TOMLINSON, FRS Received November 5, 1868. History. ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1912)
"The boiling points of these two liquids present an interesting relation. It has been shown' in the case of the octanes previously synthesized, ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"We are clearly of opinion that a change in the mode of cooking the meat from broiling, roasting or steaming to boiling, all the other parts of the process ..."

4. Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator by Edward Whymper (1892)
"Observations of the boiling-point were, however, made at seventeen ... It was found, in all cases, that the mean boiling-point at every station was higher ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1876)
"On the Discovery of a boiling Lake in Dominica. ... The nature of the boiling Lake is, I believe, exactly the same as that of the many ..."

6. Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin by University of Wisconsin (1910)
"So far as boiling point is concerned /3-pinene might be present in fraction No. 1, but it can be excluded on the ground of its higher specific gravity, ..."

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