Boyle

American  

[boil] / bɔɪl /

noun

1. Kay, 1903–1993, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and poet.

2. Robert, 1627–91, English chemist and physicist.

3. T. Coraghessan born 1948, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

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Boyle British  

/ bɔɪl /

noun

1. Robert . 1627–91, Irish scientist who helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy. He established that air has weight and studied the behaviour of gases; author of The Sceptical Chymist (1661)

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Boyle Scientific  

/ boil /

1. English physicist and chemist who is regarded as a founder of modern chemistry. Boyle rejected the traditional theory that all matter was composed of four elements and defined an element as a substance that cannot be reduced to other, simpler substances or produced by combining simpler substances. Boyle also conducted important physics experiments with Robert Hooke that led to the development of Boyle's law.

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Multi-disciplinary artist and educator Rosales puts a driving ’90s beat on the page in this look back at growing up in Boyle Heights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

"The stage play doesn't... monsterise Rupert Murdoch, which, of course, a lot of people do now," Boyle said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

“The interest payments are starting to snowball,” said Joe Boyle at Hartford Funds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

“It’s not just one thing,” Boyle said of what’s pushing up yields.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

Nowadays, in English, we can no more have a merely plausible proof than we can have a false fact; but Boyle is using ‘proof’ differently from us.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton