hot having a high temperature; (used about a person) feeling heat in an uncomfortable way: Do you like this hot weather? ♦ Be careful - the plates are hot. ♦ If you're hot, take off your sweater. warm with a temperature that is high but not very high, so that it feels pleasant; not hot and not cold: Wash the blouse in warm soapy water. ♦ It's cold outside but it's nice and warm in here. ♦ Are you warm enough? ♦ I jumped up and down to keep warm. —ANTONYM cold , cool
lukewarm slightly warm, often in an unpleasant way: The food was only lukewarm. ♦ Add half a cup of lukewarm water to the mixture. boiling ( informal )
very hot in an unpleasant way: You must be boiling in that heavy coat. ♦ Can you turn the heat down? It's boiling hot in here. —ANTONYM freezing
boil • ing point / ' boilig |point / noun [ count ]
( general science ) the temperature at which a liquid starts to boil
bois • ter • ous / boistaras / adjective
noisy and full of energy
The kids were a little too boisterous on the school bus.
bold / bould / adjective ( bold . er , bold . est )
1 brave and not afraid
It was very bold of you to ask for more money.
2 that you can see clearly bold colors
bold • ly / ' bouldli / adverb He boldly said that he disagreed.
bo • lo • gna ( also ba . lo . ney ) / ba ' louni / noun [noncount]
a meat that people often eat for lunch, made from different types of cooked meats: a bologna sandwich
bolt / boult / noun [ count ]
a thick metal pin that you use with another piece of metal (called a nut ) to fasten things together
a piece of metal that you move across a door to lock it
a sudden bright light in the sky during a storm a bolt of lightning
bolt verb ( bolts , bolt . ing , bolt . ed )
to lock a door by putting a bolt across it
bolts
bomb 1 w / bam / noun [ count ] a thing that explodes and hurts or damages people or things Aircraft dropped bombs on the city. A bomb went off (= exploded ) at the station.
bomb 2 4?/ bam / verb ( bombs , bomb . ing , bombed )
to attack people or a place with bombs The city was bombed in the war.
bomb • er / ' bamar / noun [ count ]
a type of airplane that drops bombs
a person who makes a bomb explode somewhere
bondawД / band / noun [ count ]
something that joins people or groups of people together a strong bond offriendship
bone О / boun / noun [ count ]
one of the hard white parts inside the body of a person or an animal
She broke a bone in her foot. This fish has a lot of bones in it.
bon • fire / ban|faiar / noun [ count ] a big fire that you make outside
bon • net / banat / noun [ count ]
a soft hat that you tie under your chin bo • nus / bounas / noun [ count ] ( plural bon . us . es )
( business ) an extra payment that is added to what you usually get
to receive an annual bonus
something good that you get in addition to what you expected
My cell phone service includes free texts as an added bonus .
bon • y / ' bouni /adjective ( bon i • er, bon i • est )
very thin, so that you can see the shape of the bones long bony fingers
boo / bu / exclamation, noun [ count ] ( plural boos )
a word people use to show that they do not like someone or something
The speech was met with boos from the audience.
a sound that you make to frighten or surprise someone He jumped out from behind the door and shouted "Boo!" ► boo verb ( boos , boo • ing , booed )
