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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Example Sentences

One segment of the doc pulls from a somber video from the LAPD’s Hollenbeck division that describes Dead City’s Boyle Heights show in a “Critical Incident Community Briefing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

Mr. Boyle is the associate dean for graduate programs at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

“This investment of $360 million is to build, preserve and enhance affordable housing across Los Angeles,” Jurado said at a news conference in Boyle Heights.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Aoife Boyle, a bridal make-up artist from Ballyshannon, County Donegal, became involved with the project through social media.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

The terminology we now use to express this distinction, between primary and secondary qualities, was introduced by Boyle in 1666 and popularized by Locke in 1689.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton