boilingn.

/ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/

Etymology: < boil v. + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of bubbling up under the influence of heat; ebullition.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > state of being boiling (of liquid)

seethingc1300

boilingc1380

playing?c1425

ebullition1792

boil1813

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > agitation of liquid in boiling

walmOE

welling1371

boilingc1380

fervence14..

fervoura1440

play1440

effervescence1651

exaestuation1666

effervescency1681

estuation1684

wambling1686

popple1826

soubresaut1849

tottling1864

c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 202 Þis boylyng wole after quenche.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. xxxvi. 251 The heete that makyth boyllynge and sethyng.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bollynge or bubblynge vp of water.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 40 Evolved rapidly, with formation of bubbles, as in the ordinary process of boiling.

b. With down: the process of boiling or heating something to reduce its bulk or to liberate oil or the like. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > boiling down

decoction1650

boiling1848

1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. vi. 71 The process of ‘boiling down’, or converting the whole carcase into tallow.

1859 F. Fuller Five Years' Resid. N.Z. viii. 166 A boiling-down price for wethers would be reached in a few years.

1903 Westm. Gaz. 31 Jan. 8/1 A Grimsby fishing vessel..if properly equipped with boiling down works could gather the oil [from seals].

2. transferred and figurative.

a. A bubbling like that of boiling water; disturbance, turmoil, raging.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun]

boilingc1384

fervence14..

bubblinga1500

burbling1528

bullitiona1626

ebullition1646

fermentationa1661

intumescence1661

effervescence1685

struggle1741

struggling1764

bubblement1842

bubble1870

creaming1888

hotter1923

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Jonah i. 15 The se stode of his buylyng.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xcii. 983 [Lettuce] keliþ heete and boylyng of blood.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 813 The boilinge or risinge vp of water out of a spring.

1882 Observatory V. 357 It [sc. a comet] shows a turmoil or boiling of the light about the nucleus.

b. Heating of the body or mind; violent agitation, inflammation, fever, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [noun]

fever1340

motiona1398

quotidian?a1439

rufflea1535

commotion1581

fret1582

hurry1600

puddering1603

tumultuousnessa1617

trepidation1625

feverishness1638

boilingc1660

fermentationc1660

tumult1663

ferment1672

stickle1681

fuss1705

whirl1707

flurry1710

sweat1715

fluster1728

pucker1740

flutter1741

flustration1747

flutteration1753

tremor1753

swithera1768

twitteration1775

state1781

stew1806

scrow1808

tumultuating1815

flurrification1822

tew1825

purr1842

pirr1856

tête montée1859

go1866

faff1874

poultry flutter1876

palaver1878

thirl1879

razzle-dazzle1885

nervism1887

flurry-scurry1888

fikiness1889

foment1889

dither1891

swivet1892

flusterment1895

tither1896

overwroughtness1923

mania1925

stumer1932

tizzy1935

two and eight1938

snit1939

tizz1953

tiswas1960

wahala1966

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > violent agitation

boilingc1660

convulsiona1701

tempest-tossing1867

paroxysm1893

the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [noun] > burning with passion

glowing1578

boilingc1660

c1660 J. Gibbon in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1882) VI. Ps. cxix. 9 A young man all in the heat and boiling of his blood.

1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 214 Tortures and boylings of mind.

a. The action of heating a liquid to boiling point; of subjecting (anything) to the action of a boiling liquid, esp. so as to cook it; of making or obtaining some substance by this process.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun] > boiling

seethinga1387

playing?c1425

boiling1481

walm1558

rolling boil1940

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun]

welling1371

seethinga1387

boiling1481

ebullition1594

elixation1605

estuating1674

1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (1841) 422 For the dressynge and boylyng of iij. saltes, ijs.

1631 E. Jorden Disc. Nat. Bathes (1669) ii. 13 The boyling of Beans.

1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World iii. xliii. §15. 224/1 The boyling and baking of Sugar as it is now used.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 286 I set Friday to Work to boiling and stewing.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Goose Give them fourteen or fifteen Boilings.

1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery vii. 184 The advantages of gentle simmering over the usual fast-boiling of meat.

b. With down: the process of condensing or abridging literary matter; concrete a condensation or epitome. (See boil v. 8.)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > summarizing or abridging

bridginga1425

breviation1509

abbreviating1548

abridgement1579

contracting1585

curtailing1586

contraction1655

condensation1798

curtailment1799

epitomization1805

summarizing1808

entailment1822

boiling1898

predigestion1904

1898 Daily News 27 Jan. 8/4 The book is little more than a boiling-down of the vast literature on the subject. But the boiling-down is well done.

4. That which is boiled or being boiled, a decoction; a quantity boiled at one time: hence the whole boiling (slang): ‘the whole lot’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > that which is boiling or boiled

seething1382

boiling1674

boil1756

the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot

every whita1450

every stitch?a1500

the devil and all1543

prow and poop1561

Christ-cross-row1579

every snip1598

thread and thrum1600

boodle1625

hair and hoof1705

rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725

tutti quanti1772

lot1791

lock, stock, and barrel1824

stock and fluke1825

the whole boiling1837

box and dice1839

the whole caboodlea1848

sub-cheese1859

the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo)1859

the whole jingbang1866

the whole hypothec1871

the whole ball of wax1882

the whole (entire) shoot1884

(at) every whip-stitch1888

work1899

issue1919

guntz1958

full monty1979

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 113 Syrup, steepings, boylings, setlings or extract.

1786 New Haven Gaz. 13 Apr. 75/3 The d—l ran a hunting with the boiling of them.

1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. xiii. 171 [He] may..whip the whole boiling of us off to the Ingies.

c1842 E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 13 This liquor is to be boiled until it is a thick syrrup; skim the boiling.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

boiling-like adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > violent or convulsive > violently agitated

worya1225

boilinga1382

convulsed1632

convulse1684

convulsive1686

boiling-like1835

roiling1905

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 629/1 The water..was thrown into a boiling-like motion.

C2.

boiling-furnace n. a reverberatory furnace sometimes employed in the decarbonization of cast-iron.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > furnaces for melting or refining metals > furnaces for treating iron > puddling furnaces

finery1539

finery hearth1693

refinery1750

finery furnace1786

puddling furnace1797

forge-fire1855

boiling-furnace1875

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 1001 The construction of the ‘boiling’ furnace does not materially differ from that of the ‘puddling’ furnace.

boiling-heat n. the temperature at which anything boils, i.e. turns from the liquid to the gaseous state; spec. the boiling-point of water (at the sea level 212° Fahr., 100° Cent.); figurative a high degree of excitement, indignation, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > specific degree of heat

red heatc1540

fury fire1644

adustness1652

white heat1664

blood heat1678

welding heat1710

black heat1800

welding1842

boiling-heat1846

red-hot1865

melting heat1868

1846 Punch 9 206 The maids have subsided from boiling-heat to simmering.

boiling-house n. a building for boiling (soap, sugar, etc.), a boilery.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific jobs are done > [noun] > boiling

bullery1542

boilery1628

boiling-house1647

1647 L. Haward Charges Crown Revenue 30 The Boyling house. Two Yeomen.

1712 Act 10 Anne in London Gaz. No. 5012/2 All Soap, Oil, Tallow..in any private Boiling-house.

boiling-point n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > [noun] > a high degree of excitement

heat1588

boiling-point1773

fever pitch1837

fortissimo1856

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > [noun] > at which some specific condition occurs

freezing-point1748

boiling-point1773

absolute zero1798

firing point1807

melting temperature1827

ice point1832

dew-point1833

melting point1838

neutral temperature1854

fusing point or temperature1860

welding point1868

flashing-point1878

flashpoint1878

mp1880

ignition temperature1881

silver-point1882

fire point1884

ignition point1887

neutral point1892

smoking point1915

smoking temperature1915

pour point1922

smoke point1933

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase to highest point or degree > highest point of increase

status1577

apex1624

sublimity1637

climax1647

culmination1657

acme1761

boiling-point1773

crescendo1925

1773 S. Horsley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 64 227 M. de luc's boiling point.

1807 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. 243 At the freezing point is set the number 32, and..212 at the boiling point.

1848 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Reasoner No. 2. 17 One man is brought to the boiling point by the excitement of conversation.

boiling-temperature n.

Draft additions December 2004

boiling ring n. = ring n.¹ 3g.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > part of

hotplate1803

firebox1838

range cock1842

hearth1845

boiling ring1894

griller1895

grill1907

ring1911

cooktop1941

hob1962

back burner1963

splashplate1967

1894 Junior Army & Navy Stores Price List 1199 (caption) The ‘Gem’ Gas Stove, with oven and roaster, all cast iron... No. 1.—With 1 Boiling Ring.

1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 203/1 The stove..is primarily designed as a boiling ring but it will also serve as a space heater.

1999 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 18 July 1 Five weeks ago all four boiling rings stopped operating and engineers have been unable to get the spare part needed to get it working again.

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boilingadj.

Etymology: Formed as boil v. + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈboiling.

a. Bubbling up under the influence of heat; at boiling temperature.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [adjective]

wallingc1000

welling?a1200

seethinga1300

boilingc1320

playing1440

ebullient1599

bullient1682

aboil1846

c1320 Seuyn Sag. 2460 A gret boiland cauderoun.

1579 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (Edinb.) iii. l. 1318 in Shorter Poems (1967) 87 Full of Brintstane, Pick, and bulling Leid.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1827) VIII. lxiv. 34 Cast headlong into the boiling water.

1832 Athenæum 7 Jan. 17 The cook with the boiling kettle in her hand.

1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. 229 Two boiling sulphureous springs.

b. Hyperbolically: extremely hot. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adjective] > having or communicating much heat > very

wall-hotc1000

walm-hotOE

hot as hellOE

welling?a1200

welling hota1400

aestuant?1440

burning1484

scalding?a1513

broiling1555

roasting1567

walming hot1601

boiling hot1607

baking1656

stewing-hot1711

piping1823

grilling1839

seething1848

white-hot1855

stewing1856

incandescent1859

swithering1895

boiling1930

1930 R. Lehmann Note in Music 34 He was the sort of boy who would..declare on the coldest day that he was boiling.

2. transferred. Violently agitated, raging; fiercely hot; heaving with molecular disturbance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > violent or convulsive > violently agitated

worya1225

boilinga1382

convulsed1632

convulse1684

convulsive1686

boiling-like1835

roiling1905

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. lvii. 21 As the boilinge se, that resten mai not.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxxii. 501 None coude abyde there, for it was all a quycke boylyng sande.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 62 Rocks the bellowing Voice of boiling Seas rebound.

1868 T. W. Webb Celest. Objects ii. (1873) 39 [The comet] is quite hazy, luminous in the centre, and boiling (atmospherically unsteady).

3. figurative. Inflamed, in a state of passionate agitation, bursting with passion, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [adjective] > inflamed with passion

fire-hotOE

eschaufedc1374

on firea1393

inflammatec1450

inflamed1526

enkindled1549

boiling1579

seething1590

heated1595

red-hot1598

aflame1632

on flame1656

ablaze1819

burnt1859

incandescent1859

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 238/2 Mens desires are too much boyling.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxi. x. 398 A youth boyling in ambition.

1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. ii. i. 18 My boyling passions settle and goe down.

1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 58 His Understanding 'scapes the common Cloud Of Fumes, arising from a boiling Breast.

1871 J. C. Young Mem. C. M. Young I. x. 362 She found him in a state of boiling indignation.

1878 J. Morley Diderot I. 319.

4. quasi-adv., esp. in boiling hot.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adjective] > having or communicating much heat > very

wall-hotc1000

walm-hotOE

hot as hellOE

welling?a1200

welling hota1400

aestuant?1440

burning1484

scalding?a1513

broiling1555

roasting1567

walming hot1601

boiling hot1607

baking1656

stewing-hot1711

piping1823

grilling1839

seething1848

white-hot1855

stewing1856

incandescent1859

swithering1895

boiling1930

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 401 Hogs grease and bran boiling hot.

1862 Enquire Within 83 It should be poured on boiling-hot.

1893 W. K. Post Harvard Stories 118 The conflict was at its height, when dead Cæsar appeared, boiling drunk.

Draft additions June 2014

boiling water reactor n. a nuclear reactor in which the coolant is water, steam from its discharge being used to drive a turbine; abbreviated BWR.

ΚΠ

1954 San Diego Union 25 Mar. 3/2 ‘In the boiling water reactor,’ Hafstad said, ‘we eliminate the heat exchanger and also the need for high pressure to the reactor itself.’

1984 G. H. Clarfield & W. M. Wiecek Nucl. Amer. App. 1. 449 American power reactors are predominantly of two kinds: boiling water reactors (BWR) and pressurized water reactors (PWR).

2013 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Feb. b1 Regulators in the United States have been studying whether to require filters..on the vents of each of the country's 31 boiling water reactors.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	boiling
释义	boilingn. /ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/ Etymology: < boil v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of bubbling up under the influence of heat; ebullition. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > state of being boiling (of liquid) seethingc1300 boilingc1380 playing?c1425 ebullition1792 boil1813 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > agitation of liquid in boiling walmOE welling1371 boilingc1380 fervence14.. fervoura1440 play1440 effervescence1651 exaestuation1666 effervescency1681 estuation1684 wambling1686 popple1826 soubresaut1849 tottling1864 c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 202 Þis boylyng wole after quenche. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. xxxvi. 251 The heete that makyth boyllynge and sethyng. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bollynge or bubblynge vp of water. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 40 Evolved rapidly, with formation of bubbles, as in the ordinary process of boiling. b. With down: the process of boiling or heating something to reduce its bulk or to liberate oil or the like. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > boiling down decoction1650 boiling1848 1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. vi. 71 The process of ‘boiling down’, or converting the whole carcase into tallow. 1859 F. Fuller Five Years' Resid. N.Z. viii. 166 A boiling-down price for wethers would be reached in a few years. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 31 Jan. 8/1 A Grimsby fishing vessel..if properly equipped with boiling down works could gather the oil [from seals]. 2. transferred and figurative. a. A bubbling like that of boiling water; disturbance, turmoil, raging. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun] boilingc1384 fervence14.. bubblinga1500 burbling1528 bullitiona1626 ebullition1646 fermentationa1661 intumescence1661 effervescence1685 struggle1741 struggling1764 bubblement1842 bubble1870 creaming1888 hotter1923 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Jonah i. 15 The se stode of his buylyng. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xcii. 983 [Lettuce] keliþ heete and boylyng of blood. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 813 The boilinge or risinge vp of water out of a spring. 1882 Observatory V. 357 It [sc. a comet] shows a turmoil or boiling of the light about the nucleus. b. Heating of the body or mind; violent agitation, inflammation, fever, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [noun] fever1340 motiona1398 quotidian?a1439 rufflea1535 commotion1581 fret1582 hurry1600 puddering1603 tumultuousnessa1617 trepidation1625 feverishness1638 boilingc1660 fermentationc1660 tumult1663 ferment1672 stickle1681 fuss1705 whirl1707 flurry1710 sweat1715 fluster1728 pucker1740 flutter1741 flustration1747 flutteration1753 tremor1753 swithera1768 twitteration1775 state1781 stew1806 scrow1808 tumultuating1815 flurrification1822 tew1825 purr1842 pirr1856 tête montée1859 go1866 faff1874 poultry flutter1876 palaver1878 thirl1879 razzle-dazzle1885 nervism1887 flurry-scurry1888 fikiness1889 foment1889 dither1891 swivet1892 flusterment1895 tither1896 overwroughtness1923 mania1925 stumer1932 tizzy1935 two and eight1938 snit1939 tizz1953 tiswas1960 wahala1966 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > violent agitation boilingc1660 convulsiona1701 tempest-tossing1867 paroxysm1893 the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [noun] > burning with passion glowing1578 boilingc1660 c1660 J. Gibbon in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1882) VI. Ps. cxix. 9 A young man all in the heat and boiling of his blood. 1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 214 Tortures and boylings of mind. 3. a. The action of heating a liquid to boiling point; of subjecting (anything) to the action of a boiling liquid, esp. so as to cook it; of making or obtaining some substance by this process. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun] > boiling seethinga1387 playing?c1425 boiling1481 walm1558 rolling boil1940 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] welling1371 seethinga1387 boiling1481 ebullition1594 elixation1605 estuating1674 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (1841) 422 For the dressynge and boylyng of iij. saltes, ijs. 1631 E. Jorden Disc. Nat. Bathes (1669) ii. 13 The boyling of Beans. 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World iii. xliii. §15. 224/1 The boyling and baking of Sugar as it is now used. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 286 I set Friday to Work to boiling and stewing. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Goose Give them fourteen or fifteen Boilings. 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery vii. 184 The advantages of gentle simmering over the usual fast-boiling of meat. b. With down: the process of condensing or abridging literary matter; concrete a condensation or epitome. (See boil v. 8.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > summarizing or abridging bridginga1425 breviation1509 abbreviating1548 abridgement1579 contracting1585 curtailing1586 contraction1655 condensation1798 curtailment1799 epitomization1805 summarizing1808 entailment1822 boiling1898 predigestion1904 1898 Daily News 27 Jan. 8/4 The book is little more than a boiling-down of the vast literature on the subject. But the boiling-down is well done. 4. That which is boiled or being boiled, a decoction; a quantity boiled at one time: hence the whole boiling (slang): ‘the whole lot’. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > that which is boiling or boiled seething1382 boiling1674 boil1756 the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot every whita1450 every stitch?a1500 the devil and all1543 prow and poop1561 Christ-cross-row1579 every snip1598 thread and thrum1600 boodle1625 hair and hoof1705 rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725 tutti quanti1772 lot1791 lock, stock, and barrel1824 stock and fluke1825 the whole boiling1837 box and dice1839 the whole caboodlea1848 sub-cheese1859 the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo)1859 the whole jingbang1866 the whole hypothec1871 the whole ball of wax1882 the whole (entire) shoot1884 (at) every whip-stitch1888 work1899 issue1919 guntz1958 full monty1979 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 113 Syrup, steepings, boylings, setlings or extract. 1786 New Haven Gaz. 13 Apr. 75/3 The d—l ran a hunting with the boiling of them. 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. xiii. 171 [He] may..whip the whole boiling of us off to the Ingies. c1842 E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 13 This liquor is to be boiled until it is a thick syrrup; skim the boiling. Compounds C1. General attributive. boiling-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > violent or convulsive > violently agitated worya1225 boilinga1382 convulsed1632 convulse1684 convulsive1686 boiling-like1835 roiling1905 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 629/1 The water..was thrown into a boiling-like motion. C2. boiling-furnace n. a reverberatory furnace sometimes employed in the decarbonization of cast-iron. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > furnaces for melting or refining metals > furnaces for treating iron > puddling furnaces finery1539 finery hearth1693 refinery1750 finery furnace1786 puddling furnace1797 forge-fire1855 boiling-furnace1875 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 1001 The construction of the ‘boiling’ furnace does not materially differ from that of the ‘puddling’ furnace. boiling-heat n. the temperature at which anything boils, i.e. turns from the liquid to the gaseous state; spec. the boiling-point of water (at the sea level 212° Fahr., 100° Cent.); figurative a high degree of excitement, indignation, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > specific degree of heat red heatc1540 fury fire1644 adustness1652 white heat1664 blood heat1678 welding heat1710 black heat1800 welding1842 boiling-heat1846 red-hot1865 melting heat1868 1846 Punch 9 206 The maids have subsided from boiling-heat to simmering. boiling-house n. a building for boiling (soap, sugar, etc.), a boilery. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific jobs are done > [noun] > boiling bullery1542 boilery1628 boiling-house1647 1647 L. Haward Charges Crown Revenue 30 The Boyling house. Two Yeomen. 1712 Act 10 Anne in London Gaz. No. 5012/2 All Soap, Oil, Tallow..in any private Boiling-house. boiling-point n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > [noun] > a high degree of excitement heat1588 boiling-point1773 fever pitch1837 fortissimo1856 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > [noun] > at which some specific condition occurs freezing-point1748 boiling-point1773 absolute zero1798 firing point1807 melting temperature1827 ice point1832 dew-point1833 melting point1838 neutral temperature1854 fusing point or temperature1860 welding point1868 flashing-point1878 flashpoint1878 mp1880 ignition temperature1881 silver-point1882 fire point1884 ignition point1887 neutral point1892 smoking point1915 smoking temperature1915 pour point1922 smoke point1933 the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase to highest point or degree > highest point of increase status1577 apex1624 sublimity1637 climax1647 culmination1657 acme1761 boiling-point1773 crescendo1925 1773 S. Horsley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 64 227 M. de luc's boiling point. 1807 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. 243 At the freezing point is set the number 32, and..212 at the boiling point. 1848 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Reasoner No. 2. 17 One man is brought to the boiling point by the excitement of conversation. boiling-temperature n. Draft additions December 2004 boiling ring n. = ring n.¹ 3g. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > part of hotplate1803 firebox1838 range cock1842 hearth1845 boiling ring1894 griller1895 grill1907 ring1911 cooktop1941 hob1962 back burner1963 splashplate1967 1894 Junior Army & Navy Stores Price List 1199 (caption) The ‘Gem’ Gas Stove, with oven and roaster, all cast iron... No. 1.—With 1 Boiling Ring. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 203/1 The stove..is primarily designed as a boiling ring but it will also serve as a space heater. 1999 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 18 July 1 Five weeks ago all four boiling rings stopped operating and engineers have been unable to get the spare part needed to get it working again. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). boilingadj. Etymology: Formed as boil v. + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈboiling. 1. a. Bubbling up under the influence of heat; at boiling temperature. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [adjective] wallingc1000 welling?a1200 seethinga1300 boilingc1320 playing1440 ebullient1599 bullient1682 aboil1846 c1320 Seuyn Sag. 2460 A gret boiland cauderoun. 1579 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (Edinb.) iii. l. 1318 in Shorter Poems (1967) 87 Full of Brintstane, Pick, and bulling Leid. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1827) VIII. lxiv. 34 Cast headlong into the boiling water. 1832 Athenæum 7 Jan. 17 The cook with the boiling kettle in her hand. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. 229 Two boiling sulphureous springs. b. Hyperbolically: extremely hot. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adjective] > having or communicating much heat > very wall-hotc1000 walm-hotOE hot as hellOE welling?a1200 welling hota1400 aestuant?1440 burning1484 scalding?a1513 broiling1555 roasting1567 walming hot1601 boiling hot1607 baking1656 stewing-hot1711 piping1823 grilling1839 seething1848 white-hot1855 stewing1856 incandescent1859 swithering1895 boiling1930 1930 R. Lehmann Note in Music 34 He was the sort of boy who would..declare on the coldest day that he was boiling. 2. transferred. Violently agitated, raging; fiercely hot; heaving with molecular disturbance. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > violent or convulsive > violently agitated worya1225 boilinga1382 convulsed1632 convulse1684 convulsive1686 boiling-like1835 roiling1905 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. lvii. 21 As the boilinge se, that resten mai not. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxxii. 501 None coude abyde there, for it was all a quycke boylyng sande. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 62 Rocks the bellowing Voice of boiling Seas rebound. View more context for this quotation 1868 T. W. Webb Celest. Objects ii. (1873) 39 [The comet] is quite hazy, luminous in the centre, and boiling (atmospherically unsteady). 3. figurative. Inflamed, in a state of passionate agitation, bursting with passion, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [adjective] > inflamed with passion fire-hotOE eschaufedc1374 on firea1393 inflammatec1450 inflamed1526 enkindled1549 boiling1579 seething1590 heated1595 red-hot1598 aflame1632 on flame1656 ablaze1819 burnt1859 incandescent1859 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 238/2 Mens desires are too much boyling. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxi. x. 398 A youth boyling in ambition. 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. ii. i. 18 My boyling passions settle and goe down. 1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 58 His Understanding 'scapes the common Cloud Of Fumes, arising from a boiling Breast. 1871 J. C. Young Mem. C. M. Young I. x. 362 She found him in a state of boiling indignation. 1878 J. Morley Diderot I. 319. 4. quasi-adv., esp. in boiling hot. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [adjective] > having or communicating much heat > very wall-hotc1000 walm-hotOE hot as hellOE welling?a1200 welling hota1400 aestuant?1440 burning1484 scalding?a1513 broiling1555 roasting1567 walming hot1601 boiling hot1607 baking1656 stewing-hot1711 piping1823 grilling1839 seething1848 white-hot1855 stewing1856 incandescent1859 swithering1895 boiling1930 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 401 Hogs grease and bran boiling hot. 1862 Enquire Within 83 It should be poured on boiling-hot. 1893 W. K. Post Harvard Stories 118 The conflict was at its height, when dead Cæsar appeared, boiling drunk. Draft additions June 2014 boiling water reactor n. a nuclear reactor in which the coolant is water, steam from its discharge being used to drive a turbine; abbreviated BWR. ΚΠ 1954 San Diego Union 25 Mar. 3/2 ‘In the boiling water reactor,’ Hafstad said, ‘we eliminate the heat exchanger and also the need for high pressure to the reactor itself.’ 1984 G. H. Clarfield & W. M. Wiecek Nucl. Amer. App. 1. 449 American power reactors are predominantly of two kinds: boiling water reactors (BWR) and pressurized water reactors (PWR). 2013 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Feb. b1 Regulators in the United States have been studying whether to require filters..on the vents of each of the country's 31 boiling water reactors. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1380adj.c1320
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