different between distillation vs distiller

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 ...

Translations

English

Etymology

distill +? -er

Noun

distiller (plural distillers)

1. A person who distills, especially alcoholic spirits or hard liquor by a process of distillation; a person who owns, works in or operates a distillery.
2. A device or apparatus that distills, a condenser; a still.
3. A company whose business is distilling, especially one that manufactures alcoholic spirits or liquor.

Related terms

• distil, distill
• distilland
• distillate
• distillation
• distilled water
• distilling

Translations

Anagrams

• redistill, ristellid

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin destill?re, present active infinitive of d?still? (“I distil, I trickle”).

Pronunciation

Verb

distiller

1. to distill

Conjugation

Related terms

• distillation

Further reading

• “distiller” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

dist?ller

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dist?ll?