boil

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I just think it's worth noting that there are good reasons to prefer underlining links that don't boil down to "stuck in 1996".

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Quick take

a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus

noun

the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level; "they brought the water to a boil"

verb

come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for boil.

noun

a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus

noun

the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level; "they brought the water to a boil"

verb

come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius"

verb

immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes; "boil potatoes"; "boil wool"

verb

bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point; "boil this liquid until it evaporates"

verb

be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm"

verb

be in an agitated emotional state; "The customer was seething with anger"

Example sentences

I just think it's worth noting that there are good reasons to prefer underlining links that don't boil down to "stuck in 1996".

"They're paid for it, there is nothing illegal about it"Ah, Hacker News, where all ethical questions boil down to "were they paid?

The people doing the reviews don't know how to program and don't take input from programmers, so the review boil down to random guessing.

They generally boil down to a combination of the following:1.

That's why so many of the 'How did X get traction' stories on Quora boil down to "It suddenly took off with group foo, we weren't sure why".

It's interesting that these sorts of problems with memcpy, etc., always boil down to the same thing - C arrays are lowered to simple pointers when they are passed as function arguments.

Wow there is a lot of hate in this thread...A lot of the arguments here seem to boil down to "Much smarter people are working on this and they haven't solved it, who the hell does this KID think he is?!?

It's funny how that line of thinking should boil down to "capitalism, or at least the way we are practicing it, misallocates resources", but the thought-buck always stops with the smart people.

Glancing through the objections, the non-political ones all seem to boil down to "We don't actually know that they work at commercial scales, because we've never used them at commercial scale before.

But four of your six reasons why people use dollars kinda boil down to "people use dollars because lots of people use dollars".He's realized that "money" is just a very complicated game we play with each other.

" Well, many of the discussions around Apple seem to boil down to one person saying that Apple copied/stole the idea, or the idea was inevitable, and the other person saying "Yeah, but Apple pulled off he execution.

Will your design let you make small design changes with relatively small and localized code changes, or has your complicated template/inheritance-based design "locked up" your code into a particular pattern, where changing any of the design assumptions requires "unwinding" a highly intertwined structure?I don't know the rigorous answer to this question, so I design with various heuristics, which mostly boil down to some version of "this is getting a bit too complex or too highly leveraged.