American English pronunciation
How to pronounce boyle
IPA transcription: ['bɔɪl]
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Noun
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United States writer (1902-1992)
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Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691)
Usage examples
- He was born in Wilsonville, in Boyle County, Kentucky, near Parksville.
- The following day, Boyle besieged and took Carrigadrohid castle.
- Boyle and Maria eventually leave the country towards the United States.
- Roger Boyle had been a supporter of Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War.
- Boyle was educated in London at Charterhouse, and later studied colonial administration and law.
- The prestigious Boyle Trophy has a long association with the school.
- Those predecessors included Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, John Locke, and Henry Cavendish.
- Both Boyle and Smith were avid sailors who took many trips together.
- Boyle was a brother of Robert Boyle.
- It was written for his wedding to his young bride, Elizabeth Boyle.