Definition of Boiling

Boiling

of Boil

Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.

The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.

Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.

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Boiling Quotations

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson Mandela

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.
Mitch Hedberg

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.
Skeet Ulrich

You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
Sam Donaldson

Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use.
James Lind

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.
Simone Schwarz-Bart

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.
Jack Johnson

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.
Edwin Newman

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Boiling Translations

boiling in French is bouillant
boiling in German is Siedegrad, kochend, auskochend
boiling in Latin is fervidus
boiling in Swedish is kokning

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