Boiling and Cold

Boiling

Boiling adjective - Having a notably high temperature.
Usage example: it was boiling in that car, and the owners had foolishly left their pet in it

Cold is an antonym for boiling in very hot topic.

Nearby Words: boil, boiled, boiler

Cold

Cold adjective - Having a low or subnormal temperature.
Usage example: an unusually cold spring that was followed by a sweltering summer

Boiling is an antonym for cold.

Nearby Words: coldness, coldly, coldish

Both words in one sentence

  • Do Not Do This Cool Thing In order to demonstrate just how cold it was during the US's "polar vortex" of January 2014, NBC News threw a pot of boiling water in the air, which immediately froze.
  • Video Game / Banjo-Kazooie You accidentally push one into a pool of boiling water in order to make it safe, and you kill the other one in cold blood for her Jinjo.
  • Space Is Cold While the game makes it clear that Explosive Decompression and boiling organs are fantasies of the pre-Fall media, characters do still take 10 points of cold damage per minute the second they enter space without thermal protection.
    Source: Space Is Cold
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