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The correct spelling is bile.
How to pronounce bile
noun
IPA: /baɪl/
Say it like: Bil-e
The correct spelling is bile. A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion. For example: "Boil some water in a pan."
Usage Examples
“Boil some water in a pan.”
“Boil the eggs for three minutes.”
“Pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
- 2.Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
- 3.Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
- 4.A boil (kind of swelling).
verb
- 1.(of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- 2.To cook in boiling water.
- 3.(of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- 4.To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
- 5.(used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
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