boil
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noun (English)
1. (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)Examples: "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."; "The whole live crawfish typically are consumed at home and at crawfish boils and other social events where the crawfish is boiled[…]"US
2. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.nonstandardrare
3. (archaic) A bubbling.Examples: "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."archaic
verb (English)
1. (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.Examples: "Boil some water in a pan."Synonyms: seethe, well, plaw, cook, doAntonyms: condensetransitive
2. (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.Examples: "Boil the eggs for three minutes."; "Is the rice boiling yet?"; "Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha's thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i'th'charmed pot."ambitransitive
3. (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.Examples: "Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius."intransitive
4. (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.Examples: "'I'll boil the kettle,' he said."UKinformaltransitive
5. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.Examples: "It’s boiling outside!"Synonyms: bake, scorch, swelterAntonyms: freezeinformalintransitive
6. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.Examples: "I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?"Synonyms: seethe, bake, stewAntonyms: freezeinformalintransitive
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