Boil vs Foil - What's the difference?
boil | foil |
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
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between boil and foil
is that boil is (obsolete) to steep or soak in warm water while foil is (obsolete) to defile; to soil.As nouns the difference between boil and foil
is that 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 while foil is a very thin sheet of metal or foil can be failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage or foil can be (hunting) the track of an animal.As verbs the difference between boil and foil
is that boil is to heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas while foil is to prevent (something) from being accomplished or foil can be (mathematics) to multiply two binomials together or foil can be (obsolete) to defile; to soil.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.