boil vs frost

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. 

frost

verb
  • To anger or annoy. 

  • To cover with frost. 

  • To become covered with frost. 

  • To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched. 

  • To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice. 

  • To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost. 

noun
  • A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing. 

  • Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. 

  • The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form. 

  • A shade of white, like that of frost. 

  • A kind of light diffuser. 

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