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Distils vs Distill - What's the difference?

distils | distill |

As verbs the difference between distils and distill

is that distils is third-person singular of distil while distill is to subject a substance to distillation.

distils

English

Verb

(head)
  • (distil)

  • distil

    English

    Alternative forms

    * distill (North America)

    Verb

  • To subject a substance to distillation.
  • * 1880 , Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine of Utah
  • In fact, it is used in a variety of medicines; we boil, burn, and distil it, to produce salts, corrodents, sublimates,
  • To undergo or be produced by distillation.
  • To make by means of distillation, especially whisky.
  • To exude in small drops.
  • Firs distil resin.
  • To impart in small quantities.
  • To extract the essence of; concentrate; purify.
  • * 2005 , .
  • 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.
  • To trickle down or fall in small drops; ooze out.
  • To be manifested gently or gradually.
  • To drip or be wet with.
  • Derived terms

    * distillable * distiller * distillery * distilment ----

    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