Boiling vs Excoct - What's the difference?
boiling | excoct |
The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.
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 (of a person, informal, hyperbole) Feeling uncomfortably hot.
(of the weather, hyperbole) Very hot.
(of adjectives associated with heat) Extremely
As verbs the difference between boiling and excoct
is that boiling is while excoct is to extract a material by boiling.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.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)Adjective
(en adjective)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.}}
Quotations
* (English Citations of "boiling")Derived terms
* boiling hotAdverb
(-)- He was boiling mad.