boil-v; 7 Senses

Sense Number 1: (Cause to) come to the boiling point and change from liquid to vapor.

Commentary:
NOTE: PATIENT must be a liquid.

Examples:
Water boils at 100 degrees Celcius.
The sauce should boil down to one cup.
The chef boiled down the sauce by cooking it for a long time.
I boiled the water to purify it.

Mappings:
VerbNet: cooking-45.3
FrameNet: Apply_Heat,Absorb_Heat
PropBank: boil.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 3
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
boil_down 2, 3

Sense Number 2: Immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, for purposes of cooking or processing.

Commentary:
NOTE: PATIENT must NOT be a liquid. Compare to Sense 1.

Examples:
The chef boiled the potatoes.
Factory workers boil the wool in preparation for drying and spinning.
They extracted confessions by boiling prisoners alive.

Mappings:
VerbNet: cooking-45.3,preparing-26.3-2
FrameNet: Cause_harm,Absorb_heat,Apply_heat
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 3: Be agitated.

Commentary:
NOTE: Do note use for emotional states; this sense refers only to physical agitation.

Examples:
The sea boiled in the storm.
The skies boiled with dark, swirling clouds.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4

Sense Number 4: Be agitated in an emotional state.

Examples:
The customer was boiling with anger.
Anger boiled inside the customer.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: Emotion_heat
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5

Sense Number 5: BOIL DOWN: be the essential element

Commentary: IS: BOIL DOWN

Examples:
The proposal boils down to a compromise.
The whole novel boils down to an insecure, highschool fantasy.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
boil_down 1

Sense Number 6: BOIL OVER: (cause to) overflow while boiling.

Commentary:
NOTE: entity that boils over must either be a liquid or imply the presence of a liquid.

Examples:
The milk is boiling over.
Charles' negligence caused the rice to boil over.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: boil.02
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
boil_over 1

Sense Number 7: BOIL OVER: (Cause) an emotional state to become apparent or acted upon; (cause) a situation to change state or status by (emotional) will.

Commentary: IS: BOIL OVER

Examples:
His anger boiled over and he began to beat his opponent.
A long-running controversy over the publication of caricatures of the
Prophet Muhammad by a Danish newspaper boiled over in the past few
days.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM