contract H J& HE ; $r if if |b] o bogus claims of injury by workers

bogy, bogy-man = bogey, bogeyman bohemian /bau'hiimian; NAmE bou'h-/ noun a person, often sb who is involved with the arts, who lives in a very informal way without following accepted rules of behaviour

► bo he mian adj.: a bohemian existenceAifestyle

boh-rium /'boiriam/ noun [u] (symb Bh) a radioactive chemical element, produced when atoms collide (= crash into each other) ^ )

boil tH* /boil/ verb, noun

u verb 1 when a liquid boils or when you boil it, it is heated to the point where it forms bubbles and turns to steam or vapour ( f ) $i; MB', $SJF: M The

water was bubbling and boiling away. tJc fE Pf JIlo o [VN] Boil plenty of salted water, then add the spaghetti. fE£lt ^&7jc$£TV o vocabulary notes on page R15 2 when a kettle, pan, etc. boils or when you boil a kettle, etc., it is heated until the water inside it boils ( fEsSL $J7jC ) [VN] I’ll boil the kettle and make some tea.

0 [V] (BrE) The kettle’s boiling. 3eJFT₀ O [V-ADJ] She left the gas on by mistake and the pan boiled dry (= the water boiled until there was none left). ^S»fTo 3 to cook

or wash sth in boiling water; to be cooked or washed in boiling water jflSMcjfc ( ) ; Ifcjfc ( ) : [V]

She put some potatoes on to boil. Mif; T^±s₀ o [VN] boiled carrots/cabbage 7&0MW h / 0 [VN, VNN] to

boil an egg for sb 0 to boil sb an egg *£

KAAT^:§f 4 [V] if you boil with anger, etc. or anger, etc. boils inside you, you are very angry fig ik 4¹ ;

# H: He was boiling with rage, ilk fig T ill ₀

H»!7il see blood n., watch v. boil 'down |

,boil sth—down to be reduced or to reduce sth by boiling ( ) M$fc, ,boil sth 'down (to sth) to

make sth, especially information, shorter by leaving out the parts that are not important M if; B Wi; BE : The original speech I had written got boiled down to about ten minutes. i#65'Mi#jgt$g&£E3\ 7 A^ +

,boil 'down to sth (not used in the progressive tenses 7 fl 7 ff $f) (of a situation, problem, etc.

IeJM#) to have sth as a main or basic part %J; 3£A['h]MJI:: In the end, what it all boils down to is money, or the lack of it.

, boil 'over 1 (of liquid $£i£) to boil and flow over the side of a pan, etc. M'M; vH th 2 (informal) to become very angry & A # ; jc 0 3 (of a situation, an

emotion, etc. M , 'If #) to change into sth more dangerous or violent 31 it ; M ^171 explode _: Racial tension finally boiled over in the inner city riots.

,boil ’up if a situation or an emotion boils up, it becomes dangerous, worrying, etc. ( If ) $£

A M &, 4" A ifi tt: I could feel anger boiling up inside me. HiIiJ ^ A T ₀ .boil sth—’up to heat a

liquid or some food until it boils fB ( ) f&ff

it noun 1 [sing.] a period of boiling; the point at which liquid boils $5ft; B£k: (BrE) Bring the soup to the boil, then allow it to simmer for five minutes. jfcJEi

0 (NAmE) Bring the soup to a boil. iEW Mff° 2 [C] a painful infected swelling under the skin which is full of a thick yellow liquid (called pus) fp; f£ Tit#; — off the ’boil (BrE) less good than

before T IU 0U: The second series of the show really

went off the boil. 1? @ H H W Ji$ iS; 4 S. on the ’boil very active TiFif #P A#R^: We have several

projects all on the boil at once. AJ&IWjB'tJiS,

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.boiled 'sweet (BrE) (NAmE .hard 'candy [u]) noun a hard sweet/candy made from boiled sugar, often with fruit flavours 5jg$t ( #jlfl7j<.M$fc ) boil er /'boila(r)/ (also furnace especially in NAmE) noun a container in which water is heated to provide hot water and heating in a building or to produce steam in an engine $3^;