Distil or Distill - What's the difference?
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To subject a substance to distillation.
* 1880 , Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine of Utah
To undergo or be produced by distillation.
To make by means of distillation, especially whisky.
To exude in small drops.
To impart in small quantities.
To extract the essence of; concentrate; purify.
* 2005 , .
To trickle down or fall in small drops; ooze out.
To be manifested gently or gradually.
To drip or be wet with.
(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.
Distill is a related term of distil.
Distill is a alternative form of distil.
In transitive terms the difference between distil and distill
is that distil is to extract the essence of; concentrate; purify while distill is to extract the essence of; concentrate; purify.In intransitive terms the difference between distil and distill
is that distil is to drip or be wet with while distill is to drip or be wet with.distil
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Alternative forms
* distill (North America)Verb
- In fact, it is used in a variety of medicines; we boil, burn, and distil it, to produce salts, corrodents, sublimates,
- Firs distil resin.
- he'll pretend not to know about mirrors or water or even seeing, but will ask you to give only what can be distilled from what you say.