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Brewer vs Distill - What's the difference?

brewer | distill |

As a noun brewer

is (soccer) a player, supporter or other person connected with.

As a proper noun brewer

is an english occupational surname for a brewer of ale.

As a verb distill is

(lb) to subject a substance to distillation.

brewer

English

(Brewing)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who brews, or whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
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  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}

    Derived terms

    * brewer's droop

    See also

    * homebrewed

    distill

    English

    Alternative forms

    * distil (Commonwealth)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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.
  • :
  • (lb) To impart in small quantities.
  • (lb) To extract the essence of; concentrate; purify.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • Derived terms

    * distill an interface * distill out * distillable * distiller * distillery * distillment