Curate vs Distill - What's the difference?
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To act as a curator for.
To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
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To work or act as a curator.
(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.
As verbs the difference between curate and distill
is that curate is to act as a curator for while distill is (lb) to subject a substance to distillation.As a noun curate
is an assistant rector or vicar.curate
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Etymology 1
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* curate's eggEtymology 2
Verb
(curat)- She curated the traveling exhibition.
- They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.
- Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.
