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Blazing vs Boiling - What's the difference?

blazing | boiling |

As verbs the difference between blazing and boiling

is that blazing is while boiling is .

As adjectives the difference between blazing and boiling

is that blazing is very fast while boiling is that boils or boil.

As nouns the difference between blazing and boiling

is that blazing is the act of something that blazes or burns while boiling is the process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.

As an adverb boiling is

(of adjectives associated with heat) extremely.

blazing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Very fast.
  • (sarcastically) Very slow.
    • Garden snails move at a blazing speed of about .03 miles per hour.
  • (slang, of a person) Sexually attractive.
    • The actress, with her perfectly-curved body, was simply blazing in her new movie!
  • Of tremendous intensity or fervor; white-hot.
    • It was a performance of blazing ferocity.
  • (colloquial) Exceedingly angry.
    • I've became so blazing that I can't control myself properly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that blazes or burns.
    • the blazings of many fires

    boiling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia boiling) (en noun)
  • The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That boils or boil.
  • (of a thing, informal, hyperbole) Extremely hot or active.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=10 citation , passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}
  • (of a person, informal, hyperbole) Feeling uncomfortably hot.
  • (of the weather, hyperbole) Very hot.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "boiling")

    Derived terms

    * boiling hot

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (of adjectives associated with heat) Extremely
    • He was boiling mad.
    English degree adverbs