to distill
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5.2
- verb
- /dɪˈstɪl/
- Specialized
:
destilar
- Vives had also successfully employed Pierre Poissonier's invention for distilling fresh water from the sea.
- distill information
- distill the essence
So you'll have your big row column, then you'll have a distilling head up here.
- So you'll have your big row column, then you'll have a distilling head up here.
- You can get rid of forever chemicals by all water filtration systems that use distillation that distill the water.
- But because we distill it so high, it pulls out the properties that are gluten, carb, sugar and fat.
Examples
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That's why we're distilling at very low temperatures.
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Mr. Mirkin also has a knack for elegantly distilling complex scientific concepts to their core meanings.
Blog text (1) -
You can, in America, distill nothing at home, not one single drop.
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- I distill it myself down here.
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Let's cut through all of the claptrap and distill American foreign policy down to its essence.
Blog text (18) -
In the eastern Oaxaca Valley, many local residents distill the juice to make a less-refined alcoholic beverage, mescal.
Academic text (2002) -
The distillery uses traditional methods to distill whiskey from pure grains.
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After boiling the mixture, the chemist was able to distill the essential oils into a clear liquid.
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They plan to distill the fermented fruit juice to create a stronger beverage.
Synonyms
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4.1
To get a substance from a plant or material by a special process
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3.9
Remove unwanted parts from a material to make it pure
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4.6
To remove dirt and bad chemicals from water or air to make them clean
How Pure
Surface Forms
Etymology
Distill comes from the Latin distillare, which meant 'to drip down' from de- 'down' and stilla 'drop'. So to distill a liquid is like making pure drops fall: heat turns it to vapor and cooling makes clean drops you can collect.