boil vs chill

boil

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

  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

chill

verb
  • To become hard by rapid cooling. 

  • To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. 

  • To lower the temperature of something; to cool. 

  • To smoke marijuana. 

  • To discourage, depress. 

  • To become cold. 

  • To relax; to lie back. 

  • To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling. 

noun
  • A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness. 

  • A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire. 

  • An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold. 

  • A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness. 

  • Calmness; equanimity. 

  • The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel. 

  • An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.. 

  • A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness. 

adj
  • "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group. 

  • Moderately cold or chilly. 

  • Okay, not a problem. 

  • Unwelcoming; not cordial. 

  • Calm, relaxed, easygoing. 

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