boiling

[ boi-ling ]

adjective

1. having reached the boiling point; steaming or bubbling up under the action of heat:

   boiling water.

2. fiercely churning or swirling:

   the boiling seas.

3. (of anger, rage, etc.) intense; fierce; heated.

adverb

1. to an extreme extent; very:

   August is usually boiling hot; boiling mad.

boiling

/ ˈbɔɪlɪŋ /

adjective

1. very warm

   a boiling hot day

noun

1. the whole boiling slang.
   the whole lot

Other Words From

• boiling·ly adverb
• half-boiling adjective
• non·boiling adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of boiling¹

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English; boil ¹ + -ing ²

Example Sentences

For example, when you think about a pot of boiling water, you don't really know about the vibrational motion of each individual water molecule.

From Science Daily

In the experiments the researchers cooked chicken breast using five different methods: pan frying, stir-frying, deep-fat frying, boiling and air-frying, in a well-controlled research kitchen.

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For pan frying, the peak concentration was 92.9; for stir-frying it was 26.7, for deep frying 7.7, for boiling 0.7 and for air-frying it was 0.6.

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The relative levels of pollution were in a similar order across the different cooking methods as for the particulate matter emissions, with pan-frying recording 260 ppb of VOCs; deep frying 230 ppb, stir-frying 110 ppb; boiling 30 ppb and air-frying 20 ppb.

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As a planet cools from its surface downward, cold and denser material sinks, while blobs of hotter fluid rise like boiling water -- a process called convection.

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Related Words

• baking
• fiery
• scalding
• scorching
• sizzling