Boil vs Blanch - What's the difference?
boil | blanch |
The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
(rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
(intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.
To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
(obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
* Francis Bacon
To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
* Bible, Job xii. 31
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
* Surrey
To grow or become white
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach
(cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding
To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
(figuratively) To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate
* Tillotson
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
* Francis Bacon
* Reliq. Wot
To cause to turn aside or back.
To use evasion.
* Francis Bacon
As a noun boil
is a localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection or boil can be the point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.As a verb boil
is to heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.As a proper noun blanch is
, a less common spelling of blanche.boil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bile, .Synonyms
* abscess * carbuncle * cyst * furuncle * pimple * pustuleExternal links
* (Boil)Etymology 2
(etyl) "to well up, boil"). More at seethe, well.Noun
(en noun)- Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil .
Verb
(en verb)- Boil some water in a pan.
- Boil the eggs for two minutes.
- Is the rice boiling yet?
- Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
- It’s boiling outside!
- I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?
- to boil sugar or salt
- To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense cannot inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner.
- the boiling waves of the sea
- He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.
- His blood boils with anger.
- Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath.
Synonyms
* (of a liquid) seethe, well, plaw ; see also * (of the weather) be baking]], be scorching, [[swelter, be sweltering * (of a person) be seething]], be baking, [[stew, be stewingAntonyms
* (of a liquid) condense * (of the weather) be freezing * (of a person) be freezingDerived terms
* boil away * boil down * boil down to * boil off * boil over * go off the boil * hard-boiled * make someone's blood boil * parboil * pot boiler * slow boil * soft-boiledSee also
* bake * condense * freeze * fry * grill * poach * steamExternal links
* (Boiling)blanch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) blanchirVerb
(es)- his cheek blanched with fear
- the rose blanches in the sun
- to blanch linen
- age has blanched his hair
- to blanch almonds
- Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.
Etymology 2
Variant of blenchVerb
(es)- Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger.
- I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.
- to blanch a deer
- Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch .