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# boil

«boil» in Mova's school dictionary: **when a liquid gets so hot that it bubbles and turns into…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (boil, boils, boiled, boiling); noun (the boil; a boil, boils)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To boil is when a liquid gets so hot that it bubbles and turns into steam (gas). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boil/#m1)

2) To boil food is to cook it in boiling water: boil an egg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boil/#m2)

3) To boil the kettle means to heat water in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boil/#m3)

4) A boil is a painful red swelling on the skin, full of pus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boil/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, water boils at 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit) at sea level; boiling is a change of state from liquid to gas. In cooking and safety: boiling water and steam cause bad burns; turn pan handles inward and keep children away from the stove. Phrases: bring to the boil, boil over, boiling hot, it boils down to (the main point is).

### examples

- Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boil/#x1)
- Boil the pasta for ten minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boil/#x2)
- Mum is boiling the kettle for tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boil/#x3)
- Watch the milk so it does not boil over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boil/#x4)
- I like boiled eggs with toast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boil/#x5)
- Steam rises from the boiling water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boil/#x6)
- It is boiling hot today! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boil/#x7)
- Turn pan handles in so no one knocks the boiling water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boil/#x8)

### note

The adjective «boiling» can mean very hot weather (informal). Boiling is different from melting (solid to liquid) and evaporation (liquid to gas slowly, at any temperature). At the top of a high mountain water boils at a lower temperature. Maths: in temperature problems, boiling point of water = 100 °C.

### In the corpora

- [No real animal breathes fire; the bombardier beetle sprays a nearly boiling chemical mix from a tough chamber at attackers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/5/)
- [Vent water can be hotter than three hundred degrees, but it does not boil because of the huge pressure of the deep sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight/5/)
- [The plant stored that sugar as food for itself, and we squeeze it out and boil it into crystals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/2/)
- [Steam can burn worse than boiling water, because it gives out extra heat as it turns back into water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/14/)
- [Distillation is boiling a liquid and cooling the steam back to liquid; the drops are pure water, and the salt stays behind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «boil» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boil/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.