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[dih-stild]

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obtained or produced by distillation.

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Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English. See distill, -ed²

Related forms

un·dis·tilled, adjective

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Libbrecht found that refrigerator spikes grown in tap water were rare, with distilled water producing the best crop.

The troupe distilled and energized the milieu of anomie, satirizing the lame old regime in a triumphant revolt.

But it has also distilled the group down to a committed core of members willing to be martyrs.

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Libbrecht found that refrigerator spikes grown in tap water were rare, with distilled water producing the best crop.

The troupe distilled and energized the milieu of anomie, satirizing the lame old regime in a triumphant revolt.

But it has also distilled the group down to a committed core of members willing to be martyrs.

The liquid may come from scented organic water, such as rose water, distilled water or aloe vera gel.

And darker distilled drinks and wines generally have more of these congeners than do lighter ones.

Ng used delicate brushes and mild solutions, some as basic as distilled water, to remove centuries of dust and dirt.

Best with distilled water so you don't spot the leaves.

True to form they are distilled from a number of articles and interviews over the last six years.

The panel tasted rhums agricoles and cachaças, captivating rums distilled purely from fresh sugar-cane juice.

Some of the rubber peppers are smothered with pepper oil while others are injected with distilled water and used as controls.

Distilled white vinegar works as a natural stain remover on carpets.

There can be no more distilled expression of a culture than its works of art.

I'll buy one myself and give disease-free distilled water to the neighbors.

Heavy drinking, especially binge drinking of beer or distilled spirits, should be avoided.

The sugar people, by contrast, prefer to follow the market's signals in deciding whether cane is crystallised or distilled.

To clean up urine, mix water and distilled white vinegar in equal amounts.

Adults drink tequila or other types of mezcal distilled from the agave plant.

Like beverage alcohol, fuel ethanol is yeast-fermented and then distilled.

Turpentine oil is a substance distilled from material that comes from pine trees.

Distilled beverages hints at cold drab winters, melancholia and risks of alcoholism.

Fill a spray bottle with purified or distilled water and add several drops of an organic essential oil.

Any good still water will do, but distilled water is best.

Flush out the nozzle of an empty pump-spray bottle with distilled water.

One trend: shochu, a distilled version of sake popular with old-timers.

Also known as rose oil, this fragrant, colorless liquid is distilled from the petals of certain species of roses.

By combining gait models distilled from the video with force measurements, they could quantify the elephants' biomechanics.

The resulting juice is then distilled over hand-fed fires.

If cocaine were free available, there would not be the demand for high end distilled variations.

I've distilled their talk into a short list of ways that you or anyone else can contribute to genuine science.

That's a lot of wisdom distilled into those two sentences.

It's much more complicated that what you've distilled it to here.

The yeast cells release ethanol as a byproduct of their metabolism, and the ethanol can be distilled to make it more concentrated.

Use filtered or distilled spring water from a bottle.

Distilled white vinegar removes perspiration stains and odor, as well as stains from deodorants.

Distilled water actually is a fairly good insulator.

I've distilled several methods into one that works for me and for my dogs, and seems to suit their breed abilities as well.

Tequila, distilled from the fermented juice of the blue agave, is having a banner year.

Distilled to its essence, the concern takes us back to.

The bath contains unset gel made with deionized or distilled water, which is calcium-free.

They also flavored some whiskey with cinnamon and distilled peaches, apples, persimmons and vinegar.

Marden distilled the basic elements of the image into.

Fill the steam cleaner's reservoir with plain hot water or a mixture of equal parts hot water and distilled white vinegar.

New research reveals that nearly all fights between romantic partners can be distilled into two fundamental complaints.

The plants possess all the physical characteristics of their larger counterparts distilled into a proportion of the size.

Credentials have been reviewed and distilled into a proposed rank and salary.

It maybe makes sense if the main purpose is home heating and maybe recovery of some organic chemicals which are distilled off.

It recently opened a copper distillery where delicately fragrant vodka is made from distilled cider.

It has been distilled into baseless celebrity commentary on subject matter the ethicist possesses no experience.

The goal is to land clear malts a place in their alcoholic-beverage pantheon between beer and distilled spirits.

Millions of gallons of wine are distilled into commercial alcohol every year.

Arneson had successfully distilled the involved tactical military campaigns into a virtual world of first-person action.

The first step will be to collect information from the companies that sell beer, wine and distilled spirits.

When all three are put in a beaker and mixed with distilled water, the peas' cellular structure starts to break down.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object), verb (used without object) -tilled, -til·ling. Chiefly British.

distill.

verb (used with object)

to subject to a process of vaporization and subsequent condensation, as for purification or concentration.

to extract the volatile components of by distillation; transform by distillation.

to concentrate, purify, or obtain by or as by distillation: to distill whiskey from mash.

to remove by distillation (usually followed by off or out): to distill out impurities.

to extract the essential elements of; refine; abstract: She managed to distill her ideas into one succinct article.

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to let fall in drops; give forth in or as in drops: The cool of the night distills the dew.

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verb (used without object)

to undergo or perform distillation.

to become vaporized and then condensed in distillation.

to drop, pass, or condense as a distillate.

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to fall in drops; trickle; exude.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English distillen (< Anglo-French distiller) < Latin distillāre, variant of dēstillāre, equivalent to dē- de- + stillāre to drip

Related forms

dis·till·a·ble, adjective

non·dis·till·a·ble, adjective

re·dis·till, verb (used with object)

re·dis·till·a·ble, adjective

re·dis·till·a·ble·ness, noun

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Word Origin & History

distill

late 14c., from O.Fr. distiller, from L. distillare "trickle down in minute drops," from dis- "apart" + stillare "to drip, drop," from stilla "drop." Related: Distilled; distilling.

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Medical Dictionary

distill dis·till (dĭ-stĭl)
v. dis·tilled or dis·tilled, dis·till·ing or dis·til·ling, dis·tills or dis·tils

To subject a substance to distillation.
To separate a distillate by distillation.
To increase the concentration of, separate, or purify a substance by distillation.

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