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Distilled vs Foreshot - What's the difference?

distilled | foreshot |

As a verb distilled

is past tense of distil.

As a noun foreshot is

the spirits that first come over when an alcoholic liquid is distilled.

distilled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (British, Canada) (distil)
  • (US) (distill)

    • Derived terms

    * distilled water

    foreshot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The spirits that first come over when an alcoholic liquid is distilled
  • (chiefly, sport)
    • Foreshots knock the ball forward.
  • (geology)
  • * 1997 , Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems , volume 2:
    • Twelve foreshot and twelve backshot records at varying offsets were acquired for each geophone setup to achieve 24 fold duplicity.

    Coordinate terms

    * midshot, backshot

    References

    * OED 2nd edition (online)