The word 'boil' is both a noun (boil, boils) and a verb (boil, boils, boiling, boiled).
Examples:
He brought a kettle of water to the boil. (noun)
She developed a painful boil on her leg. (noun)
I can boil your eggs or fry them. (verb)
The noun kettle is a singular, common, concrete noun; a word for a pot used to boil liquids; a word for a thing.
Whether time is a count noun or a mass noun depends on how you use the word.When we use the word time to mean minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, it is a mass noun. "How much timedoes it take to boil an egg?"When we use the word time to mean incidences of events, it is a count noun. "I saw that movie six times!"
The word boiled is a verb, the past tense of 'to boil'. Boiled is also used as an adjective to describe such things as 'a boiled egg', or 'boiled potatoes'.
Well, there is no difference in terms of the act of "boiling," but there is a grammatical difference. Saying "bring it to the boil" is unnecessary. There is no need for using the definite article "the" for "boil". Merely say or write "bring to boil" or "boil." These are good enough.
Son, Can You "Boil" Some Water For Spaghetti , Please
The noun kettle is a singular, common, concrete noun; a word for a pot used to boil liquids; a word for a thing.
It is not a noun, but it can be a verb or an adjective (e.g. boiled eggs).It is the past tense and past participle of the verb to boil.
Whether time is a count noun or a mass noun depends on how you use the word.When we use the word time to mean minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, it is a mass noun. "How much timedoes it take to boil an egg?"When we use the word time to mean incidences of events, it is a count noun. "I saw that movie six times!"
Furoncle is a French equivalent of the English word "boil." The pronunciation of the masculine singular noun -- which references the mound-like, red-colored skin infection and which translates more formally as "furuncle" -- will be "fyoo-rokl" in French.
The word for bringing to a boil is "boil" or "bring to a simmer."
30 gallons
The word boiled is a verb, the past tense of 'to boil'. Boiled is also used as an adjective to describe such things as 'a boiled egg', or 'boiled potatoes'.
Well, there is no difference in terms of the act of "boiling," but there is a grammatical difference. Saying "bring it to the boil" is unnecessary. There is no need for using the definite article "the" for "boil". Merely say or write "bring to boil" or "boil." These are good enough.
No you can not boil a watermelon.
A blind boil is a boil which suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head.
you boil it in water
Soda water boil.