boilとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English bile, büle (“boil, tumor”), from 古期英語 bȳl, bȳle (“boil, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *būlijō, *būlō (“boil”). Akin to German Beule (“boil, hump”), Icelandic beyla (“swelling, hump”).

名詞

boil (複数形 boils)

1. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

同意語

派生語

• sand boil (pathology)

Further reading

• Boil on Wikipedia.

語源 2

From Middle English boillen, from Old French boillir (French: bouillir) from Latin bullīre, present active infinitive of bulliō (“I bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”). Displaced native Middle English sethen (“to boil”) (from 古期英語 sēoþan (“to boil, seethe”)), Middle English wellen (“to boil, bubble”) (from 古期英語 wiellan (“to bubble, boil”)), Middle English wallen (“to well up, boil”) (from 古期英語 weallan (“to well up, boil”)). More at seethe, well.

名詞

boil (複数形 boils)

1. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.

   Add the noodles when the water comes to the boil.

2. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
3. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.

派生語

動詞

boil (三人称単数 現在形 boils, 現在分詞 boiling, 過去形および過去分詞形 boiled)

1. (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

   Boil some water in a pan.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.

   Boil the eggs for three minutes.

   Is the rice boiling yet?

   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:

     Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha's thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i'th'charmed pot.

3. (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.

   Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.

4. (transitive, Britain, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 20–21:

     I'll boil the kettle.

5. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.

   It’s boiling outside!

6. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.

   I’m boiling in here – could you open the window?

7. (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.

   to boil sugar or salt

   • 2016, Alex Groner, American Heritage History of American Business:

     Another leader in the packaged product business was the Procter & Gamble Company, formed in Cincinnati in 1837 by William Procter, who molded candles, and his brother-in-law, James Gamble, who boiled soap.

8. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
   • 1631, [Francis Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:

     To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense cannot inform; but if you boil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner.

9. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.

   the boiling waves of the sea

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Job 12:31:

     He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.

10. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

    His blood boils with anger.

    • 1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Second Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl.; William Bolland, editor, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1814, OCLC 940064673:

      Then boyld my breſt with flame and burning wrath, / To reuenge my town vnto ſuch ruine brought.

同意語

• (of a liquid): seethe, well, plaw (英国用法, dialectal, dated, まれに); see also Thesaurus:cook
• (of the weather): be baking, be scorching, be sweltering
• (of a person): be seething, be baking, be stewing

反意語

• (of a liquid): condense
• (of the weather): be freezing
• (of a person): be freezing

派生語

関連する語

• ebullient