What's the difference between boil and stew?

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.

Stew


Definition:

  • (n.) A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
  • (n.) An artificial bed of oysters.
  • (v. t.) To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.
  • (v. i.) To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
  • (v. t.) A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
  • (v. t.) A brothel; -- usually in the plural.
  • (v. t.) A prostitute.
  • (v. t.) A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
  • (v. t.) A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
  • (2) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
  • (3) Four University of the Free State students filmed themselves drinking in a bar and then one of them urinating into a stew before feeding it to five black staff members, four of them women, at their dormitory on the Bloemfontein campus accompanied by shouts of "take it, take it".
  • (4) We have included pig’s trotters in our recipe to give the stew a gelatinous richness, and you can also throw in some ears for the same effect.
  • (5) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
  • (6) By any measure Poland’s recent history is one of triumph It was a war that was as much personal as it was political, with enmities that had been stewing for a decade erupting as the lid of communist rule was lifted.
  • (7) But rather than stew in bitterness, Hodgson's departure seems to have focused the band in much the same way as getting dropped in their early days (in their incarnation as Parva) did.
  • (8) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
  • (9) Readers may recall the Burl Ives record about a poor, cold, tired hobo who sings about the fantastical land with "the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings …" Yup, that's where we're living now, although the chancellor might have ruled out "the lake of stew and of whiskey too", since whisky is up 36p a bottle, while stew tax remains unchanged.
  • (10) However often its members drop elderly patients or leave them to stew in their own pee, the RCN gracefully embraces the public's image of them as the National Union of Angels.
  • (11) GCSE results are a thin gruel to feed developing minds when what is needed is a rich stew Jeremy Cushing We won’t see real progress until politicians treat education more like medicine, supporting a coherent programme of gradual research-based improvements, creatively designed and carefully developed until they work well.
  • (12) The muscle and fatty tissue of 101 deep-frozen fattened stewing chickens was tested for Hg content.
  • (13) ID7720613 Restaurante da Praia, Praia da Arrifana, Algarve Stewed octopus with sweet potato is the speciality at this restaurant, which sits alone at the bottom of the steep access road that winds down to one of Portugal’s most beautiful and geologically interesting beaches.
  • (14) Gastric emptying and small bowel transit were measured by computer analysis of data from a scintillation camera using technetium Tc 99m-tagged chicken liver mixed with beef stew and were compared with the results in five control subjects.
  • (15) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.
  • (16) The study provides data which suggest that the consumption of red meat, savoury meals (pizza, pies, stew, etc.)
  • (17) It was found that boiling in water and frying decreased twofold the ammonia content in meat, while stewing produced no effect.
  • (18) Over my week in the Netherlands, I’d tried other delicacies: locust tabbouleh; chicken crumbed in buffalo worms; bee larvae ceviche; tempura-fried crickets; rose beetle larvae stew; soy grasshoppers; chargrilled sticky rice with wasp paste; buffalo worm, avocado and tomato salad; a cucumber, basil and locust drink; and a fermented, Asian-style dipping sauce made from grasshoppers and mealworms.
  • (19) There must be something to marry with the richness of the stew, and nothing beats the fluffy inside of a camp-baked potato.
  • (20) GB Burlotto Barolo Monvigliero, Piedmont, Italy 2008 (£28, The Wine Society ) This has the classic barolo paradox of power (14.5% alcohol) and ethereal fragrance (rose floral and subtle earthiness), but there's a ripeness and generosity of fruit here that you don't always find in nebbiolo at this age: a treat for wild mushroom risotto or pulse-based stews.