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Boiling vs Cohobation - What's the difference?

boiling | cohobation |

As nouns the difference between boiling and cohobation

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 cohobation is (dated|chemistry) the boiling of a material in a liquid with the repeated return of the distillate.

As a verb boiling

is .

As an adjective boiling

is that boils or boil.

As an adverb boiling

is (of adjectives associated with heat) 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.
  • Derived terms

    * boiling hot

    Adverb

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

    cohobation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated, chemistry) The boiling of a material in a liquid with the repeated return of the distillate.