Boiling vs Falling - What's the difference?
boiling | falling |
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
That falls or fall.
The action of the verb to fall .
* (Jeremy Taylor)
As verbs the difference between boiling and falling
is that boiling is while falling is .As nouns the difference between boiling and falling
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 falling is the action of the verb to fall .As adjectives the difference between boiling and falling
is that boiling is that boils or boil while falling is that falls or fall.As an adverb boiling
is (of adjectives associated with heat) extremely.boiling
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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.
falling
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- falling leaves
- falling prices
Derived terms
* deviation of a falling body * downfalling * everfalling * falling action * falling band, falling-band * falling collar * falling diphthong * falling-disease * falling-door * falling dunes * falling-evil * falling factorial * falling film evaporator * falling front or back * falling-gate * falling-hinge * falling houses * falling-ill * falling-in * falling knife * falling leaf * falling limb * falling-mold, falling-mould * falling palate * falling rhythm * falling-rising * falling ruff * falling scream * falling sequential product * falling sickness, falling-sickness * falling-sluice * falling sphere * falling star, falling-star * falling stone * falling tide * falling tone * falling weather, falling-weather * falling weight deflectometer * in-falling, infalling * rising-falling * tear-falling * wall-fallingNoun
(en-noun)- Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.
