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Distil meaning

To exude (a liquid) in small drops; also, to give off (a vapour) which condenses in small drops. | To impart (information, etc.) in small quantities; to infuse. | To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.

Example sentences (11)

Democracy, I remind again, is not oneness of thinking; does not distil to this: it had better be public harmony or there will eventual be social jeopardy.

It is rare to find a program that handles this content so deftly; where the incident is not fetishized or used as a means to distil character traits.

An acceptance that people will never be entirely ‘good’ or ‘bad’ but a complex myriad of a thousand thoughts and feelings, it’s also a perhaps unwitting observation on what themselves manage to distil over the course of fourth album ‘HEAVY JELLY’.

A trial typically begins with the prosecution setting out any agreed statement of facts - a document with facts agreed on by prosecution and defence, to distil the triable issues to be focused on.

We distil here the basic ingredients of their secret sauce, their guiding principles — which can guide all investing enthusiasts as well in their wealth-creation journey.

The increased demand had led to a proliferation of so-called boutique whiskey brands, many of which do not distil but merely age the product.

These have been imitated so widely, the zombie genre is now close to exhaustion —though this is not a problem for Jarmusch who likes his premises threadbare, all the better to distil them into absurdist ritual.

We have a serious need to distil out the poisonous flotsam floating about and pay attention to the platforms of each party.

In 1824, John Cumming took his enterprise above board and bought a licence to distil under the new Excise Act.

Although the acid itself does not distil, it imparts the additional aroma of diethyl ether to the resulting gin.

With a licence to distil Irish whiskey from 1608, the Old Bushmills Distillery in Northern Ireland is the oldest licensed whiskey distillery in the world.