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Boiling vs Aboil - What's the difference?

boiling | aboil |

As adjectives the difference between boiling and aboil

is that boiling is that boils or boil while aboil is in a boil; boiling .

As adverbs the difference between boiling and aboil

is that boiling is (of adjectives associated with heat) extremely while aboil is in a boil; boiling .

As a verb boiling

is .

As a noun boiling

is the process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.

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

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    Derived terms

    * boiling hot

    Adverb

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

    aboil

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In a boil; boiling.
    • In the kitchen several pots were aboil .
  • Figuratively, heated up; excited.
    • In the drawing room, several conversations were aboil .

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a boil; boiling.
  • Figuratively, heated up; excited.

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