boil vs cool

boil

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

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

  • To feel uncomfortably hot. 

  • 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. 

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. 

cool

verb
  • To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. 

  • To lose heat, to get colder. 

  • To make cooler, less warm. 

  • To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. 

  • To kill. 

adj
  • Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem. 

  • Calmly audacious. 

  • Allowing or suggesting heat relief. 

  • Very interesting or exciting. 

  • (followed by with) Able to tolerate; to be fine with. 

  • Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others. 

  • (of an act or situation) annoying, irritating. 

  • (of a pair of people) holding no grudge against one another; having no beef. 

  • Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold. 

  • Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself. 

  • Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. 

  • In fashion and fancy, part of or befitting the most leading trends and habits of the in crowd; originally hipster slang. 

  • Of a color, in the range of violet to green. 

  • Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical. 

noun
  • A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness. 

  • A calm temperament. 

  • The property of being cool, popular or in fashion. 

How often have the words boil and cool occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )