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Broiling vs Torrid - What's the difference?

broiling | torrid |

As a verb broiling

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun broiling

is an instance of something being broiled.

As an adjective torrid is

very hot and dry.

broiling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of something being broiled.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 1, author=Sam Sifton, title=Cooking, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Amid them, he offers definitive, simple and deadly effective recipes for brisket and cholent; crispy, sweet mandelbrot; Romanian broilings of various sorts; chopped liver and borscht; even fantastic if anti-kosher crossover meals like the Chinese roast pork sandwich on buttery garlic bread that came down from the Catskills in the 1950s to take up residence on the menus of family restaurants across the southern tier of this city. }}

    torrid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very hot and dry.
  • Full of intense emotions arising from sexual love; ardent and passionate.
  • Full of difficulty.

    • Derived terms

    * torrid zone