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BOILING POINT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being highly angry or excited; ready to boil over
Example:
after an hour of waiting I was at the boiling point
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("boiling point" is a kind of...):
excitability; excitableness; volatility (being easily excited)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
Example:
they brought the water to a boil
Synonyms:
boil; boiling point
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("boiling point" is a kind of...):
temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity))
