Braise vs Boil - What's the difference?
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A method of joining non-ferrous metal using a molten filler metal. Similar to but distinct from welding in that the filler is melted but not the metal being joined.
(brazing)
(cooking) To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan. Somewhere between steaming and boiling.
The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
(rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
To heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
(intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
Of a liquid, to begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) Said of weather being uncomfortably hot.
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot. See also seethe.
To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
(obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
* Francis Bacon
To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
* Bible, Job xii. 31
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
* Surrey
Boil is a hyponym of braise.
As nouns the difference between braise and boil
is that braise is an alternative spelling of lang=en while boil is a localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.As verbs the difference between braise and boil
is that braise is to cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan. Somewhere between steaming and boiling while boil is to heat (a liquid) to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.braise
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alain Rey, ed., Dictionnaire historique de la langue française , s.v. "braise" (Paris: Le Robert, 2006).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(brais) (wikipedia braise)Etymology 2
Synonyms
* beckerExternal links
* (Pagellus centrodontus) * (Pagellus centrodontus)References
Anagrams
* ----boil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bile, .Synonyms
* abscess * carbuncle * cyst * furuncle * pimple * pustuleExternal links
* (Boil)Etymology 2
(etyl) "to well up, boil"). More at seethe, well.Noun
(en noun)- Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil .
Verb
(en verb)- Boil some water in a pan.
- Boil the eggs for two minutes.
- Is the rice boiling yet?
- Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
- It’s boiling outside!
- I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?
- to boil sugar or salt
- To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense cannot inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner.
- the boiling waves of the sea
- He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.
- His blood boils with anger.
- Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath.
