BOILING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boiling mean? 

• BOILING (noun)
  The noun BOILING has 2 senses:

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

2. cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil

  Familiarity information: BOILING used as a noun is rare.

• BOILING (adverb)
  The adverb BOILING has 1 sense:

1. extremely

  Familiarity information: BOILING used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOILING (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

boiling; simmering; stewing

Hypernyms ("boiling" is a kind of...):

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

• BOILING (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely

Context example:

boiling mad

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

Larger stars have a huge core enveloped in a thin layer of stellar material undergoing a process called convection, familiar to us from the circular motion of boiling water.

(Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster, NASA)

But in the galley, though a fire was burning and water boiling, I found no Maud.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Serle understands boiling an egg better than any body.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The temperature scale defined by the values 0 degree Celsius for the freezing point of water and 100 degrees Celsius for the boiling point of water.

(Celsius Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

When boiling carries them up to the surface and farther into the sun’s lower atmosphere, magnetic field lines rapidly snap back into place to resolve the tension, expelling plasma and energy.

(Scientists Uncover Origins of the Sun’s Swirling Spicules, NASA)

The insides of our homes can contain small molecules like chloroform or benzene a component of gasoline through simple actions like showering, boiling water, or storing cars on lawnmowers in attached garages.

(Common Houseplant with Genetic Modification Can Remove Polluted Air, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The images show a pattern of turbulent “boiling” plasma that covers the entire sun.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)

In this scale, the freezing point of water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit and the boiling point is 212 degrees, placing the boiling and melting points of water 180 degrees apart.

(Degree Fahrenheit, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

"Good-night!" said I, and vanished, like all disconsolate and broken-hearted heroes, into the darkness, with grief and rage and laughter all simmering within me like a boiling pot.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Derived by boiling impure water and condensing the resultant steam in a sterile container, distilled water has been shown to kill bladder cancer cells in vitro through osmotic lysis (cytolysis)

(Distilled Water, NCI Thesaurus)