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

Gavin Boyle is operations manager at Wunderbar, a live-music bar which has two venues in Glasgow and employs 130 staff.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Mariachis are a staple of the city, playing at quinceañeras, weddings, birthday parties, gathering at places such as Olvera Street in downtown and Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

House, the bill was introduced by Representative Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat in Washington, with Rep. Brendan Boyle, Democrat of Pennsylvania, as a co-sponsor.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 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

It looks as though at first Boyle wanted to keep these two sides of his intellectual life, with their different vocabularies, separate.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton