transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪstɪl ]
( distils, distilling, distilled)
Note: in AM, use 'distill'
1.
If a liquid such as whisky or water is distilled , it is heated until it changes into steam or vapour and then cooled until it becomes liquid again. This is usually done in order to make it pure.
The whisky had been distilled in 1926 and sat quietly maturing until 1987...
You can’t actually drink the water from the marshland. But you can distil it...
VERB : be V-ed , V n
• dis‧til‧la‧tion
Any faults in the original cider stood out sharply after distillation.
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2.
If an oil or liquid is distilled from a plant, it is produced by a process which extracts the most essential part of the plant. To distil a plant means to produce an oil or liquid from it by this process.
The oil is distilled from the berries of this small tree.
...the art of distilling rose petals...
VERB : be V-ed from n , V n
• dis‧til‧la‧tion
...the distillation of rose petals to produce rosewater.
N-UNCOUNT : usu N of n
3.
If a thought or idea is distilled from previous thoughts, ideas, or experiences, it comes from them. If it is distilled into something, it becomes part of that thing.
Reviews are distilled from articles previously published in the main column...
Roy distills these messages into something powerful...
VERB : be V-ed from n , V n into n
• dis‧til‧la‧tion
The material below is a distillation of his work.
N-SING : usu N of n