The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it past its boiling point
If you say that you are boiling or boiling hot, you mean that you feel very hot, usually unpleasantly hot. When everybody else is boiling hot, I'm freezing! = sweltering. very hot freezing. Cooking of food by immersion in water, stock, or other liquid heated to its boiling point. Boiling is used to cook meats, vegetables, and some grain foods (pasta, for example). Scalding, accomplished by heating to about 185 °F (85 °C), is commonly used to prepare milk to be used as an ingredient in various dishes. At just above the scalding temperature, fish and eggs may be poached. At the simmering point, just below that of boiling, soups, stews, and pot roasts may be prepared. Many foods, especially vegetables, are steamed in a rack placed above boiling water
cooking in a boiling liquid the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas extremely; "boiling mad
Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion
The change of phase from liquid to gas that occurs beneath the surface in the liquid The gas forms bubbles that rise to the surface and escape
a process in which a yarn or garment made from staple fibre containing wool or animal hair is left in boiling water so that the original fabric construction is obscured by the felted surface