Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To subject (a substance) to distillation.
- intransitive verb To separate (a distillate) by distillation.
- intransitive verb To increase the concentration of, separate, or purify by or as if by distillation.
- intransitive verb To separate or extract the essential elements of.
- intransitive verb To exude or give off (matter) in drops or small quantities.
- intransitive verb To undergo or be produced by distillation.
- intransitive verb To fall or exude in drops or small quantities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.
- intransitive verb To flow gently, or in a small stream.
- intransitive verb To practice the art of distillation.
- transitive verb To let fall or send down in drops.
- transitive verb To obtain by distillation; to subject to a process of evaporation and subsequent condensation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify
- transitive verb To subject to distillation
- transitive verb rare To dissolve or melt.
- transitive verb to extract out and present the essence of; to shorten and refine; to present the essential elements of; -- of ideas or texts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To subject a
substance todistillation . - verb intransitive To undergo or be produced by distillation.
- verb transitive To make by means of distillation, especially
whisky . - verb transitive To
exude in small drops. - verb transitive To
impart in small quantities. - verb transitive To
extract the essence of;concentrate ;purify . - verb intransitive To
trickle down or fall in smalldrops ;ooze out. - verb intransitive To be
manifested gently or gradually. - verb intransitive To
drip or bewet with.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops
- verb extract by the process of distillation
- verb remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
- verb give off (a liquid)
- verb undergo the process of distillation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word distill comes from the Latin destillare, “to drip.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The word distill comes from the Latin destillare, “to drip.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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For a perverse death cult with powerful members in every stratum of society has learned how to distill from the bones of their sacrificed victims the ultimate thrill — a nectar that, once tasted, is impossible to resist.
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I believe that oil wins (b) by a large margin, but hydrogen may win (a) and (c), depending on the source of the energy required to "distill" it.
McCain: We Can Achieve "Strategic Independence" From Foreign Oil By 2025 2009
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To take a single case, why should he not have spelt _until_ with two _l_s, instead of one, -- as he does "distill,"
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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But I was trying with this book, and it is a big book and it goes off on all these - and tells a lot of different stories, but I was trying to kind of distill a series of patterns that you see again and again in the stories of innovation, and particularly in the environments that lead to breakthrough ideas.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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And if you feel you must distill the history from the fiction, then you are welcome to do research of your own.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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The process of picking up the pieces is still underway, and on Monday in Washington the International Monetary Fund kicks off a two-day conference of top economists to try to distill some lessons.
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You'll read books that capture and distill the human condition, that pry your eyes open to the lives and realities beyond our own.
Brock Cohen: A Promise to the Students of an Uncool Teacher Brock Cohen 2010
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In the book of Job, there is a remarkable description of how evaporation works: “He draws up the drops of water water vapor NLT, they distill rain from the mist; which the clouds pour down” 36:27–28 NASB.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
pecanarchy commented on the word distill
"alembic" would be a good word to include as a related word!
September 25, 2023