Brew vs Distill - What's the difference?
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To prepare (usually a beverage) by steeping and mingling; to concoct.
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To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to hatch.
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To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
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To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
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(obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage.
(slang) A beer.
(British, NZ) A cup of tea.
(British, NZ) The act of making a cup of tea.
(British, informal) A hill.
(lb) To subject a substance to distillation.
(lb) To undergo or be produced by distillation.
(lb) To make by means of distillation, especially whisky.
(lb) To exude in small drops.
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(lb) To impart in small quantities.
(lb) To extract the essence of; concentrate; purify.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
(lb) To trickle down or fall in small drops; ooze out.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Soft showers distilled , and suns grew warm in vain.
*Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
*:The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia.
(lb) To be manifested gently or gradually.
(lb) To drip or be wet with.
In transitive terms the difference between brew and distill
is that brew is to foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to hatch while distill is to extract the essence of; concentrate; purify.In intransitive terms the difference between brew and distill
is that brew is to be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering while distill is to drip or be wet with.As a noun brew
is the mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage.brew
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Verb
(en verb)- Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
- Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!
- I wash, wring, brew , bake, scour.
- There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest.
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