different between liquidation vs distillation

English

Etymology

liquidate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?kw??de???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

liquidation (countable and uncountable, plural liquidations)

1. The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
2. The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.

3. (euphemistic) Murder of dehumanized victims by a regime (and possibly its allies).

Related terms

• liquid
• liquidate
• liquidator
• liquidity
• liquidizer
• liquor

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.ki.da.sj??/

Noun

liquidation f (plural liquidations)

1. sale, liquidation (sale of goods at reduced prices)
2. liquidation

Further reading

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

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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