different between concoction vs distillation
concoction
English
Etymology
From Latin concocti?.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k?n?k?k??n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?n?k?k??n/, [k??n?k??k??n], [k????k??k??n]
Noun
concoction (countable and uncountable, plural concoctions)
- The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
- A mixture prepared in such a way.
- Something made up, an invention.
- (obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).
- [Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […]
- (obsolete, figuratively) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
- (obsolete, medicine) Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.
- (obsolete) The act of perfecting or maturing.
- There are also divers other great alterations of matter and bodies , besides those that tend to concoction and maturation
Translations
French
Etymology
From Latin concocti?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.k?k.sj??/
Noun
concoction f (plural concoctions)
- concoction (mixture)
Further reading
- “concoction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Latin concocti?nem.
Noun
concoction f (plural concoctions)
- concoction (mixture)
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distillation
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)
- The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
- That which falls in drops.
- (chemistry, chemical engineering) The separation of more volatile parts of a substance from less volatile ones by evaporation and condensation.
- Purification through repeated or continuous distilling; rectification.
- (petroleum) Separation into specific hydrocarbon groups; fractionation.
- 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 ...
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, III. v. 104:
Translations
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