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boiling

boiling

1 1.0
Cooking food in very hot water that is bubbling until it is done
  • noun
  • /ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/
translation icon : hervido
  • [BOILING]

Well, actually it's easiest to start at the boiling of the frog.

Examples

  • And that's been a problem in American and British cuisine is, you know, boiling up things like cabbage.

  • So you see, no boiling will produce bubbles.

  • Okay, all right, so boiling eggs, you put your colt, your eggs in the water.

  • [ Boiling ]

    Firestarter (1984)

  • BUT THE WORST WAS WHEN MARK HIT RAY IN THE FACE WITH HIS SHOE AND RAY TOOK BOILING WATER AND THREW IT ALL OVER MARK'S LEGS, GIVING HIM A THIRD-DEGREE BURN.

    Gravesend (1997)

  • (POT BOILING)

    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

  • The recipe instructs you to add the vegetables to the boiling broth.

  • After boiling the potatoes, mash them with butter and salt.

  • Boiling water for pasta is essential to achieving the right texture.

Antonyms

freezing
79 1.6

A change when a liquid turns into a solid because it gets very cold

chilling
2.5

Making food or drink cold to keep it fresh

Idioms

boiling mad
  • Informal
1 4.8

Feeling very angry

to keep the pot boiling
  • Informal
1 7.2

To make people stay interested and active in a project

frog in a boiling pot
  • Informal
9.3

A person who slowly fails to notice danger until it is too late

Compounds

boiling water
29 1.0

Water heated until it makes bubbles and steam

boiling point
  • Specialized
4 3.4

The temperature at which a liquid turns into a gas at normal air pressure

boiling point
  • Informal
4 4.4

A moment when anger or stress becomes so strong that someone shows it

boiling water reactor
  • Specialized
1 7.0

A machine in a nuclear power plant that boils water to make steam to turn a turbine

boiling frog
  • Informal
9.3

A person or group that does not react to slow harmful changes until serious damage happens

How Vigorous

boiling
1 1.0
to simmer
92 2.5
to poach
34 3.9

Surface Forms

boiling singular
boilings plural

Morphology

boiling = boil (transparent) = boil + ing

Standard gerund/nominal -ing formation from the verb 'boil' yields the cooking process, a directly derived meaning.

Etymology

Boiling comes from the old verb boil, which meant 'to bubble' or 'seethe'. Because cooking by boiling means putting food into hot water that bubbles, boiling is the word for that way of cooking.