(a.) Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion.
(n.) The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation.
(n.) Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.
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.
Sweltering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swelter
Example Sentences:
(1) When the summer heat strikes the Korean peninsula, it's not ice or water that North Korea's authorities recommend to get through the sweltering conditions – it's dog meat, among other "revitalising" foods.
(2) For seven sweltering rounds, against all prognoses, Ali allowed Foreman, the brutish, one-blow Goliath, actually to punch himself out on his arms, as Ali himself lay on the ropes, head back as if out of a bedroom window to check if the cat was on the roof.
(3) With beautiful parks, a world class zoo, great public transportation and year round festivals this place would be paradise if it were not for the sweltering summers.
(4) The agents were waiting for the arrival of a flight from San Vicente del Caguán, a cattle-ranching town in the sweltering southern lowlands, the largest town in a region dominated by the country's most powerful guerrilla army - the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).
(5) Shola Obadeyu wore a heavy duffel coat while queueing in Heathrow for a flight back to her sweltering home city of Abuja.
(6) Against a backdrop of the East River and the Manhattan skyline, addressing thousands of supporters who braved sweltering summer heat, Clinton portrayed herself as a fighter and champion of progressive causes as she laid out the themes that will define her second bid for the White House.
(7) Wales take on Cyprus in the sweltering heat of Nicosia on Thursday night before hosting Israel in Cardiff on Sunday and Coleman has been involved in football long enough to recognise the perils of getting into a discussion on the six points in 72 hours that would seal qualification for Euro 2016 with two fixtures to spare.
(8) Health experts think mosquito transmission probably will occur in the US, but the expectation is that it will be in low-elevation, sweltering places where the insect has been a steady problem – like southern Florida or southern Texas .
(9) The officer closed the door and soon Hutcherson began sweltering from the heat in the stifling room.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A young girl eats porridge in a sweltering hot shipping container in Bentiu.
(11) It is a sweltering day in the west London neighbourhood of Hammersmith, but for one estate agent the temperature of the housing market has been distinctly colder in recent weeks.
(12) The horizon is fringed with the tall trees of the Ghanaian rainforest, but for Huang, this dilapidated shelter is his only shade from the sweltering tropical sun.
(13) Perhaps Oprah really did work with “Teavana’s leading teaologist, Naoko Tsunoda” to create it, through long, hard hours in some sweltering Starbucks tea mill, up to her elbows in cardamom, beset by cloves, painstakingly measuring and remeasuring piles of pot-pourri to achieve the perfect balance of inspiration and spiritual health.
(14) More than 1,800 people were killed; others were stranded for days without food or drinking water in sweltering temperatures, producing searing images of a human catastrophe and government failure.
(15) The theme of this week's meeting in the sweltering Indonesian resort island of Bali is global partnership, the orphan child of the millennium development goals (MDGs).
(16) The majority of respondents from Colombia were from the Andean city of Bogotá, which is not believed to have been badly affected, while most Venezuelan respondents were from the sweltering coastal capital Caracas, which is thought to have suffered high rates of infection.
(17) Many now swelter in tiny concrete cells for months on end without charge, their detention renewed by a judge every 45 days .
(18) Souvenir stands sell doormats and toilet rolls bearing the image of Yanukovych, and of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Just a few hundred people remain, sweltering in the summer heat, a far cry from the tens of thousands who stood there during the icy winter evenings prior to Yanukovych's fall.
(19) Born in a market town not far from the capital city of Asmara, Teklehaimanot explained on a sweltering day in Amsterdam, at the team’s official presentation before the start of the race in Utrecht, how cycling was in his blood.
(20) Courtesy of Australia they are enjoying a dystopian coming of age in broken families trapped in a makeshift prison on a sweltering island.