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Concoction vs Distillation - What's the difference?

concoction | distillation |

As nouns the difference between concoction and distillation

is that concoction is (obsolete) digestion (of food etc) while distillation is distillation.

concoction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.260:
    • [Sorrow] hinders concoction , refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […].
  • The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
  • A mixture prepared in such a way.
  • Something made-up, an invention.
  • (obsolete, figurative) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
    • (John Donne)
  • (obsolete, medicine) Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.
  • (obsolete) The act of perfecting or maturing.
    • (Francis Bacon)

    distillation

    English

    (wikipedia distillation)

    Noun

  • The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
  • That which falls in drops.
    • (Johnson)
  • (chemistry, chemical engineering) The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam.
  • The substance extracted by distilling.
  • * 1599 , , III. v. 104:
    • to be stopped in, like a strong distillation , with stinking / clothes that fretted in their own grease.