distill
/dis'til/ Cách viết khác : (distill) /dis'til/
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Definition
Verb (Transitive):
- To purify or concentrate a liquid by heating it to create vapor and then cooling the vapor to collect the resulting purified liquid.
- To extract the essential meaning, quality, or element of something abstract.
- To cause a liquid to fall in drops or to give off a liquid in drops.
Verb (Intransitive):
- To undergo the process of distillation.
- To fall or be released in drops.
Examples of Usage
Verb (Transitive):
- They distill whiskey from fermented grain. (They purify and concentrate whiskey through heating and condensation.)
- The book distills years of research into a single chapter. (The book extracts and presents the most essential findings from years of research.)
- The doctor distilled a few drops of antiseptic onto the wound. (The doctor caused a few drops of antiseptic to fall onto the wound.)
Verb (Intransitive):
- Salt water can be made drinkable by distilling. (Salt water can be purified by undergoing the process of distillation.)
- The steam will distill on the cold surface. (The steam will condense and fall in drops on the cold surface.)
Advanced Usage
- "to distill out": To separate or extract a specific substance or idea through distillation or a similar refining process.
- The chemist distilled out the pure compound from the mixture.
- Used figuratively to describe the process of refining complex information into a clear, concentrated form.
- Her philosophy distills ancient wisdom for the modern reader.
Variants and Related Words
- Distillation (n): The process of distilling a liquid or an abstract concept.
- The distillation of crude oil produces various fuels.
- This report is a distillation of the committee's findings.
- Distiller (n): A person or apparatus that distills, especially alcoholic spirits.
- The distiller checked the aging barrels.
- Distillate (n): A liquid product condensed from vapor during distillation.
- The clear distillate was collected in a flask.
Synonyms
- Purify: To remove contaminants from something.
- Extract: To remove or take out, especially by effort.
- Condense: To change from a gas or vapor to a liquid; to make more concise.
- Refine: To remove impurities or unwanted elements; to improve by making small changes.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Distill off: To remove a volatile component by distillation.
- Heat the solution to distill off the solvent.
Related Idioms
- To distill something down to its essence: To reduce something to its most fundamental and important parts.
- The negotiation was complex, but it distilled down to a question of trust.
Verb
- give off (a liquid)
- The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound
- undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops
- water condenses
- The acid distills at a specific temperature
- extract by the process of distillation
- distill the essence of this compound
- undergo the process of distillation
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
- purify the water