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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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refine
English
Etymology
re- +? fine
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???fa?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
- Hyphenation: re?fine
Verb
refine (third-person singular simple present refines, present participle refining, simple past and past participle refined)
- (transitive) To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.
- (intransitive) To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
- (transitive) To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish.
- (transitive, intransitive) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
- (transitive) To make nice or subtle.
Related terms
- refinable
- refinement
- refiner
- refinery
Translations
Further reading
- refine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- refine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Feiner, enfire, ferine, fineer
Portuguese
Verb
refine
- first-person singular present subjunctive of refinar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of refinar
- first-person singular imperative of refinar
- third-person singular imperative of refinar
Spanish
Verb
refine
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of refinar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of refinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of refinar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of refinar.
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