Boil

[bɒɪl] or [bɔɪl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus.

(verb.) immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes; 'boil potatoes'; 'boil wool'.

(verb.) bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point; 'boil this liquid until it evaporates'.

(verb.) come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor; 'Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius'.

伊夫林整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v.) To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.

(v.) To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.

(v.) To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.

(v.) To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.

(v.) To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.

(v. t.) To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.

(v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.

(v. t.) To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.

(v. t.) To steep or soak in warm water.

(n.) Act or state of boiling.

(n.) A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.

整理:普雷斯利

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. [1]. Be agitated by heat.[2]. Bubble, rise in bubbles.[3]. Be ardent, be hot.

v. a. Seethe.

n. Furuncle, pustule, gathering, inflamed tumor.

戴夫校對

解釋/意思:

n. an inflamed swelling or tumour.

v.i. to bubble up from the action of heat: to be hot: to be excited or agitated.—v.t. to heat to a boiling state: to cook or dress by boiling.—ns. Boil′er one who boils: that in which anything is boiled: a vessel in which steam usually for a steam-engine is generated: a vessel for heating water for baths &c.; Boil′ing the bubbling up of any liquid by the application of heat: the act of dressing food by boiling water.—adj. bubbling: swelling with heat or passion.—n. Boil′ing-point the temperature at which liquids begin to boil under heat.—To boil down to reduce in bulk by boiling to extract the substance of to epitomise; To boil over to bubble over the sides of the containing vessel to break out into unrestrained indignation.

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