Simmer vs Smoulder - What's the difference?
simmer | smoulder |
The state or process of simmering.
To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
To cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
*:I don't know if you have ever thought what a rare thing in the absence of man and in a temperate climate, flames must be. The sun's heat is rarely strong enough to burn even when focussed by dewdrops, as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts. Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this again rarely results in flames. Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
(obsolete) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
(obsolete) smoke; smother
* Gascoigne
As nouns the difference between simmer and smoulder
is that simmer is the state or process of simmering while smoulder is smoke; smother.As verbs the difference between simmer and smoulder
is that simmer is to cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point while smoulder is alternative form of lang=en.simmer
English
Alternative forms
* simber (obsolete)Noun
(-)- The kettle was kept on the simmer .
Verb
- The soup simmered on the stove.
- Simmer the soup for five minutes, then serve.
Synonyms
* coddleDerived terms
* simmer downAnagrams
* ----smoulder
English
Verb
(en verb)- (Holinshed)
- (Palsgrave)
Noun
- The smoulder stops our nose with stench.