blister vs boil

blister

noun
  • A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection. 

  • A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities. 

  • A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface. 

  • An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate. 

  • A bubble, as on a painted surface. 

  • Hyponyms: bulla, vesicle, vesicula. 

  • A cause of annoyance. 

  • A swelling on a plant. 

  • Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine. 

verb
  • To break out in blisters. 

  • To sear after blaching. 

  • To raise blisters on. 

  • To have a blister form. 

  • To criticise severely. 

boil

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

  • The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point. 

  • A dish of boiled food, especially seafood. 

  • A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.) 

  • The collective noun for a group of hawks. 

verb
  • To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation. 

  • To feel uncomfortably hot. 

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

  • To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil. 

  • To begin to turn into a gas, seethe. 

  • To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas. 

  • To be uncomfortably hot. 

  • To cook in boiling water. 

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

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