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The coffee war between Starbucks and McDonald's is coming to a boil this week, as the two chains launch national marketing campaigns.

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boil (HEAT) Show phonetics
verb
1 [I or T] to reach, or cause something to reach, the temperature at which a liquid starts to turn into a gas:
Liquid nitrogen boils at a very low temperature.
She scalded herself on some boiling water.
If you give water to a small baby to drink, you have to boil it first.

2 [I or T] to heat a container, especially one used for cooking, until the liquid in it starts to turn into a gas:
Could you boil the kettle for me?
The pan's boiling.

3 [T] to cook food by putting it in water that is boiling:
I've boiled some potatoes for dinner.
boiled carrots
See picture .

4 [T] to wash clothes in a container of very hot water

5 boil dry If a container or food boils dry, all the liquid in the container in which the food was cooking turns to gas.

6 [I usually continuous] INFORMAL to be extremely angry:
He was boiling with rage.

boil Show phonetics
noun [S]
1 when you wash or cook something in very hot water

2 the boil the state of boiling:
Bring the water to the boil, then add the pasta.
Let the liquid come to the boil and then reduce the heat.

boiled Show phonetics
adjective
boiled eggs/bacon
a hard-/soft-boiled egg (= one boiled for a long/short time)

boiling (hot) adjective INFORMAL
very hot:
I wish I'd worn something cooler - I'm boiling.
We don't usually have such boiling hot weather.


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Merrill Tries to Lance the Boil

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Merrill Lynch is selling more than $30 billion in mortgage assets at a steep loss and said it plans to raise $8.5 billion in new stock -- all in a bid to stabilize its balance sheet and get past the credit crisis. The brokerage's shares were ahead slightly after-hours after dropping 12% in regular trading. 11:00 p.m.

lance (CUT)
verb [T]
to cut the skin with a sharp tool in order to release infected matter that has collected under it:
She had a boil lanced at the doctor's this morning.

in short

To sum up; briefly:we hope, in short, to bring theory and practice together in each session

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in short order

chiefly North American Immediately; rapidly:after the killing the camp had been shut down in short order