Boiler Meaning
/ˈbɔɪlə/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA person who boils something.
nounA steam boiler.
Sentence Examples
The boiler was heavily scaled.
Give me a reading on that meter near the boiler.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The old ____ in the basement burst, flooding the room with boiling water.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ in the basement broke down, so we have no hot water tonight.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.? Latin bulla Proto-Indo-European *-yétider. Latin -iō Latin bulliō Old French boillirbor. Middle English boillen English boil Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English boiler From boil + -er.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"While it appears the FRM40_TEXT table is the answer, saving a form with boiler text does not seem to insert into this table."
— 1994 May 4, Glenn Nicholas, “Re: Forms4 boilerplate accessible?”, in comp.databases.oracle (Usenet):
"Nearly every employer in my field has similar terms (they all come out of a legal boiler mill somewhere)."
— 2007, Jim Casey, “Re: NRA vs Bar Assoc over guns in cars”, in tx.guns (Usenet):
"Just aligning all the paragraphs of 'boiler text' is tedious but trying to insert values in alignment is impossible!"
— 2009 March 30, hughess7, “Re: Mail merge to PDF”, in microsoft.public.access (Usenet):
"Our Patent Museum now forms a portion of "The Boilers," but, although in them, it is not of them."
— 1866, Saturday Review: Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 781:
"The quadrangle, unlike the Boilers (which were later moved to house the Bethnal Green Museum), still stands as part of the Victoria and Albert Museum."
— 2007, Hannah Gay, The History of Imperial College London, 1907-2007, page 62:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The old ____ in the basement burst, flooding the room with boiling water.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ in the basement broke down, so we have no hot water tonight.