simmering

«simmering» in Mova's school dictionary: just below boiling, with small bubbles — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (simmer, simmers, simmered, simmering — -ing form); adjective (simmering)

meaning for a pupil

1) Cooking gently in liquid that is just below boiling, with small bubbles. tree →

2) (of feelings) Growing slowly inside someone without fully showing yet, like anger or excitement. tree →

3) (of a problem or argument) Continuing quietly and likely to grow worse. tree →

4) «Simmering down» — becoming calmer after being angry or excited. tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking and science, simmering is gentle heating below 100 °C at sea level, used for soups and sauces; safety lessons remind pupils to keep pan handles turned in. In stories simmering anger shows a character close to exploding. In news, «simmering tensions» describes a dispute that has not yet become a fight.

examples

• The soup is simmering on the stove. tree →
• Let the sauce keep simmering for ten minutes. tree →
• She was simmering with anger but said nothing. tree →
• There were simmering tensions between the two teams. tree →
• "Simmer down!" said the teacher when we got too loud. tree →
• Leave the pan simmering, not boiling hard. tree →
• The simmering argument finally boiled over at lunch. tree →

note

Regular verb; doubled «m» already in «simmer». Simmering is gentler than boiling: small, slow bubbles. «Boil over» (literally and figuratively) is what happens after things simmer too long.

In the corpora

• When you cook with alcohol, some of it always stays in the food; long simmering removes most but not all.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «simmering» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.