(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.
Bubble
Definition:
(n.) A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
(n.) A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters.
(n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
(n.) A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
(n.) The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
(n.) Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
(n.) A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.
(n.) To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
(n.) To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.
(n.) To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(2) The survival time of the lambs was markedly shortened with the bubble oxygenator, although much longer than had been anticipated.
(3) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(4) Bubbles after N2-He-O2 dives contained substantially more N2 than He (up to 1.9 times more) compared to the dive mixture; bubbles after N2-Ar-O2 dives contained more Ar than N2 (up to 1.8 times more).
(5) There was more bubble formation in the eye cup with positively charged than with negatively charged substances.
(6) The surface activity of two surfactant preparations, Lipid Extract Surfactant (LES) and Survanta, was examined during adsorption and dynamic compression using a pulsating bubble surfactometer.
(7) Private gardens in Belgravia, London, in the middle of a house price bubble.
(8) Bubble-free gels as thin as 25 microns can be routinely cast on this device.
(9) Following injection at pressures between 2.8 and 26.6 kPa, the mean PO2 of equilibrated saline containing an air bubble was 0.80 kPa higher than the mean value obtained at injection pressures of less than 2.8 kPa.
(10) On the point about whether the estate is “viable”: if the alternative is the land beneath it on the open market, for a private developer to pay bubble prices, then nothing is really viable.
(11) 'No social housing' boasts luxury London flat advert for foreign investors Read more Only by rebalancing housing provision can we avoid another bursting property bubble.
(12) During negative equilibrium gas in the bubble gradually simulates tissue gas with eventual shrinkage of the bubble.
(13) And none of them are making money, they are all buying revenue with huge war chests.” Patrick reckoned the 2.0 tech bubble will come to be defined by the unicorn.
(14) In summary, weight loss does not result from the gastric bubble alone.
(15) Burst your bubble: five conservative articles to read as protests stymie Trump Read more There’s the shrinking minority of Americans who believe he’s doing a good job.
(16) The unusual behavior characterized as "bubbling" was interpreted as either thermoregulation or a nectar concentration.
(17) Experiments show that the primary source of air bubbles in such a system is the drip chamber.
(18) Patients were randomly assigned either to receive the gastric bubble or to have a sham procedure.
(19) Training grounds during a World Cup turn out to be a strange little bubble of a world.
(20) We all knew from the beginning that Little Mix would be in with a shout for the final rounds, because they were young and possessed of more than a modicum of talent and so no one … old … no matter how talented, would pop their bubble.