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distilled

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d??st?ld/

Verb

distilled

  1. (Britain, Canada) simple past tense and past participle of distil
  2. (US) simple past tense and past participle of distill

Derived terms

  • distilled water

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foreshot

English

Etymology

From fore- +? shot.

Noun

foreshot (plural foreshots)

  1. The spirits that first come over when an alcoholic liquid is distilled
  2. (chiefly sports) A shot that sends something forewards, such as a shot that sends the ball ahead the player making it.
    Foreshots knock the ball forward.
  3. A measurement of the azimuth when sighting to the next point along a path that is being measured with a compass.
    • 1997, Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, volume 2:
      Twelve foreshot and twelve backshot records at varying offsets were acquired for each geophone setup to achieve 24 fold duplicity.
  4. (architecture) A portion of a building that protrudes out.
  5. (photography or cinematography) The foreground of a photographic image.

Verb

foreshot

  1. simple past tense and past participle of foreshoot

Coordinate terms

  • midshot, backshot

References

  • OED 2nd edition (online)

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