different between brewing vs distillation

English

Etymology

From Middle English brewyng; equivalent to brew +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?u???/
• Rhymes: -u???

Verb

brewing

1. present participle of brew

Noun

brewing (countable and uncountable, plural brewings)

1. The production of alcoholic beverages, such as beer, by fermentation; the process of being brewed.
2. The business or occupation of a brewer.
3. The quantity of a brew made in a single batch.
   • 1824, Encyclopaedia Britannica

     The four last brewings, in which the quantity of yeast added was smaller than in the six first, took place during the month of May, when the heat is apt to make the fermentation run to excess.

4. The forming of a storm or the gathering of clouds.

Translations

Anagrams

• Winberg, webring

Middle English

Noun

brewing

1. Alternative form of brewyng

English

Etymology

From Middle English distillacioun, from Anglo-Norman distillacioun, from Latin dist?ll?ti?nem, accusative of dist?ll?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?st??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

distillation (countable and uncountable, plural distillations)

1. The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
2. That which falls in drops.
3. (chemistry, chemical engineering) The separation of more volatile parts of a substance from less volatile ones by evaporation and condensation.
   1. Purification through repeated or continuous distilling; rectification.
   2. (petroleum) Separation into specific hydrocarbon groups; fractionation.
4. The substance extracted by distilling.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, III. v. 104:

     to be stopped in, like a strong distillation, with stinking / clothes that fretted in their own grease.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 5:

     Then, were not summer's distillation left,

     A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass ...

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