Boil vs. Blister: Know the Difference

To change from a liquid to a vapor by the application of heat

A local swelling of the skin that contains watery fluid and is caused by burning or irritation.

To reach the boiling point.

A similar swelling on a plant.

To undergo the action of boiling, especially in being cooked.

A raised bubble, as on a painted or laminated surface.

To be in a state of agitation; seethe

A rounded, bulging, usually transparent structure, such as one used for observation on certain aircraft or for display and protection of packaged products.

To be stirred up or greatly excited, especially in anger

To cause a blister to form on.

To vaporize (a liquid) by the application of heat.

To reprove harshly.

To heat to the boiling point.

To break out in or as if in blisters.

To cook or clean by boiling.

A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.

To separate by evaporation in the process of boiling

A swelling on a plant.

The condition or act of boiling.

(medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.

Lower Southern US A picnic featuring shrimp, crab, or crayfish boiled in large pots with spices, and then shelled and eaten by hand.

A bubble, as on a painted surface.

An agitated, swirling, roiling mass of liquid

(roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.

A painful, circumscribed pus-filled inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissue usually caused by a local staphylococcal infection. Also called furuncle.

A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.

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

A cause of annoyance.

The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.

(uncountable) A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.

A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.

(transitive) To raise blisters on.

The collective noun for a group of hawks.

To sear after blaching.

A bubbling.

(intransitive) To have a blister form.

To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.

(transitive) To criticise severely.

(ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.

(intransitive) To break out in blisters.

To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.

A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.

To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.

Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.

To be uncomfortably hot.

A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.

To feel uncomfortably hot.

To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.

(transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.

To raise a blister or blisters upon.

(obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.

To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.

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

(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid

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

Get blistered;

To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.

Subject to harsh criticism;

To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.

Cause blisters to from on;

To pass from a liquid to an aëriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.

To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.

To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.

To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.

To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.

To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.

To steep or soak in warm water.

Act or state of boiling.

A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.

A painful sore with a hard pus-filled core

The temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level;

Come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor;

Cook in boiling liquid;

Bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point;

Be agitated;

Be in an agitated emotional state;