What's the difference between boil and broil?

Boil


Definition:

  • (v.) To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
  • (v.) To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
  • (v.) To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
  • (v.) To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
  • (v.) To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
  • (v. t.) To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
  • (v. t.) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
  • (v. t.) To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.
  • (v. t.) To steep or soak in warm water.
  • (n.) Act or state of boiling.
  • (n.) A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He says the next step will be moving to bore water, which will require people to boil water to drink.
  • (2) In addition to the proteinase, 3 or 4 peptides (16-22.0 kDa) were visible in SDS-PAGE gels of gland cell proteins; on boiling, these peptides aggregated to 31 kDa.
  • (3) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.
  • (4) Serum SIRS-inducing activity was abrogated by treatment with proteinase K or boiling, but was not affected by dialysis, acidification to pH 2, or heating to 56 degrees C. This serum factor could be distinguished functionally and antigenically from SIRS and from interferon (IFN) alpha or IFN gamma.
  • (5) Next they are lucky if they can obtain an appointment before the boil bursts.
  • (6) The result that shed walls can be solubilized by boiling in SDS-dithiothreitol indicates that disulfide linkages are critical for wall integrity.
  • (7) Doctors refuse to discharge 'Baby Asha' because of fears for safety on Nauru Read more It’s understood the baby girl, who is about a year old and is known as Asha, suffered burns when boiling water was accidentally spilt on her on Nauru.
  • (8) Illness was also significantly associated with eating lightly cooked eggs (unmatched p = 0.02), but not soft boiled eggs, and precooked hot chicken (matched p = 0.006).
  • (9) The method is based on sonification of bacterial suspension in the presence of lysozyme and EDTA and subsequent extraction of the pellet with boiling water.
  • (10) Cobra poly C9 that is resistant to reduction and boiling in SDS could also be demonstrated.
  • (11) The vacuum flask method of using boiling water to decontaminate soft contact lenses is better and less expensive than other ways of using moist heat and can be safely and effectively applied under most domestic circumstances.
  • (12) The stimulating effect of the extract on 14C-NA incorporation into mitochondria is retained after dialysis, but is removed upon boiling of the extract.
  • (13) From about 1891 to 1905 home rule seemed to go off the boil in Ireland; people agitated instead over land reform and Irish universities.
  • (14) To examine the safety of foods (meat and milk) obtained from animals whose feeds were preserved with allyl isothiocyanate (AITC), the authors investigated the status and development of animals, some aspects of protein, lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, some enzymes, hemopoiesis and reproduction function of Wistar rats fed diets containing the above products (55 g dry milk or 50 g boiled meat per 100 g diet).
  • (15) The exception was potato crisps which gave a similar glycemic response to boiled potato.
  • (16) The debate about house prices is reignited on Mondayamid claims by Britain's biggest property website that prices for homes have come "off the boil".
  • (17) This issue boils down to the question whether the ballot sponsors are more like citizens with strong policy views about a law (who normally cannot defend a law in federal court) or, instead, surrogate public officials who can act as the state for purposes of this lawsuit when the state itself refuses to do so (who would be permitted to defend the law).
  • (18) The findings will bring to the boil a long-simmering row over whether those differences mean organic food is better for people, with one expert calling the work sexed up.
  • (19) In animal experiments cholesterol is reduced by supplementing the diet with large doses of fresh, boiled, or dried products.
  • (20) The distribution of pancreatic polypeptide (PP)-like immunoreactivity (LI) in rat tissue was determined by a specific radioimmunoassay (RIA) after extraction with boiling 1 N acetic acid.

Broil


Definition:

  • (n.) A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
  • (v. t.) To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.
  • (v. t.) To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.
  • (v. i.) To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mutagens detectable by Salmonella typhimurium TA98, after activation by liver S-9 fraction, are formed when meat is cooked by frying, broiling and boiling.
  • (2) Frying or broiling of meat or fish yields powerful genotoxic carcinogens such as 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ) and related amino-imidazo azaarene carcinogens.
  • (3) Further studies appear warranted to determine whether some of the adverse effects of environmental carcinogens, as found in cigarette smoke, charcoal-broiled meats, and industrial wastes, might be alleviated by dietary intervention.
  • (4) A high pressure liquid chromatographic procedure has been developed and applied to the analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH's) in 70 samples of smoked food products commercially available in Canada, and in 6 charcoal broiled meats.
  • (5) Initial applications have been demonstrated in the analysis of 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ) and 2-amino-3,4-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (MeIQ) in broiled salmon flesh.
  • (6) The ratios of the average concentrations of APAP in plasma to those of phenacetin markedly increased after the charcoal-broiled beef diet.
  • (7) Treatment of broiled chicken with 0.5-3 mM nitrite, which is a physiologically feasible concentration in the human stomach under some conditions, induced direct-acting mutagenicity.
  • (8) Sugimura and associates discovered new types of mutagens as heterocyclic amines that are formed during frying or broiling of meats and fish.
  • (9) We have synthesized 11 heterocyclic aromatic amines with chemical structures related to that of 2-amino-3-methylimidazo [4,5-f] quinoline (IQ), a potent mutagen occurring in broiled sardines, fried beef and beef extract.
  • (10) The rat granuloma pouch assay was used to assess the in vivo mutagenic potential of 2-amino-3-methyl-imidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ), a heterocyclic aromatic amine which is formed during the frying of meat and broiling of fish.
  • (11) Initial application is demonstrated in the analysis of 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ) and 2-amino-3,4-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (MeIQ) in broiled salmon.
  • (12) Smoke formed during pan-broiling of lean pork was recovered at 3 different pan temperatures: 200, 250 and 300 degrees C, using an efficient device for collection of aerosol and volatiles.
  • (13) The addition of bran reduced BPH activity to 65% of that observed with the fiber-free, charcoal-broiled beef diet.
  • (14) Participants who achieved the greatest success reported substituting baking and broiling for frying as their method of food preparation, exercising routinely, eating smaller portions of food, and setting goals for weight loss.
  • (15) The effect of cooking time on mutagenic activity in crust, pan residue and smoke from pan-broiled pork patties was studied in the Ames Salmonella mutagenicity test system.
  • (16) The meat mutagens are usually produced in the crust of animal foods during frying, broiling, and baking.
  • (17) The flavour of the broiled meat indicated deterioration after 11 days of storage.
  • (18) High levels of mutagenic activity are formed rapidly when frying, or more slowly during broiling.
  • (19) The central and eastern parts of the state are ribbed with dry mountain ranges and wide, high deserts, broiling in summer and freezing in winter.
  • (20) Four test were performed to each patient with the intake of: (a) 400 ml of water, (b) 100 g (c) 300 g and (d) 500 g of broiled stems of O. streptacantha Lem.