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Boiling vs Bailing - What's the difference?

boiling | bailing |

As verbs the difference between boiling and bailing

is that boiling is present participle of lang=en while bailing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between boiling and bailing

is that boiling is the process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point while bailing is the act by which something is bailed.

As an adjective boiling

is that boils or boil.

As an adverb boiling

is extremely.

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

    bailing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is bailed.
  • * Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages
    • He took a bucket and bailed the muddy stuff out right to the bottom, and let it fill up to be again bailed out. After three bailings the water came in cold, sweet, and pure as crystal.