Boil vs. Concrete — What's the Difference?

A boil, also called a furuncle, is a deep folliculitis, infection of the hair follicle. It is most commonly caused by infection by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, resulting in a painful swollen area on the skin caused by an accumulation of pus and dead tissue.

Concrete is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens (cures) over time. In the past, lime based cement binders, such as lime putty, were often used but sometimes with other hydraulic cements, such as a calcium aluminate cement or with Portland cement to form Portland cement concrete (named for its visual resemblance to Portland stone).

(with reference to a liquid) reach or cause to reach the temperature at which it bubbles and turns to vapour

Existing in a material or physical form; not abstract

(with reference to food) cook or be cooked by immersing in boiling water or stock

A building material made from a mixture of broken stone or gravel, sand, cement, and water, which can be spread or poured into moulds and forms a mass resembling stone on hardening

(of the sea or clouds) be turbulent and stormy

Cover (an area) with concrete

The temperature at which a liquid bubbles and turns to vapour

Form (something) into a mass; solidify

A casual outdoor meal at which shellfish is prepared by boiling

Of or relating to an actual, specific thing or instance; particular

An inflamed pus-filled swelling on the skin, caused typically by the infection of a hair follicle.

Relating to nouns, such as flower or rain, that denote a material or tangible object or phenomenon.

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

Existing in reality or in real experience; perceptible by the senses; real

To reach the boiling point.

Formed by the coalescence of separate particles or parts into one mass; solid.

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

Made of hard, strong, conglomerate construction material.

To be in a state of agitation; seethe

A hard, strong construction material consisting of sand, conglomerate gravel, pebbles, broken stone, or slag in a mortar or cement matrix.

To be stirred up or greatly excited, especially in anger

A mass formed by the coalescence of particles.

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

To build, treat, or cover with hard, strong conglomerate construction material.

To heat to the boiling point.

To form into a mass by coalescence or cohesion of particles or parts.

To cook or clean by boiling.

To harden; solidify.

To separate by evaporation in the process of boiling

Real, actual, tangible.

The condition or act of boiling.

Being or applying to actual things, not abstract qualities or categories.

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

Particular, specific, rather than general.

An agitated, swirling, roiling mass of liquid

United by coalescence of separate particles, or liquid, into one mass or solid.

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

Made of concrete, a building material.

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

(obsolete) A solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion.

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

Specifically, a building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.

A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.

(logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.

The collective noun for a group of hawks.

Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

A bubbling.

(US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.

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

(chemistry) An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.

(ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.

To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).

To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.

To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).

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

To unite or coalesce into a mass or a solid body.

To be uncomfortably hot.

United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.

To feel uncomfortably hot.

Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; - opposed to abstract.

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

A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.

(obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.

A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.

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

A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.

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

Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

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.

To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.

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

To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.

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

To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.

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

A strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water

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

Cover with cement;

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

Form into a solid mass; coalesce

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

Capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary;

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.

Formed by the coalescence of particles

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;