different between stripping vs distillation

English

Verb

stripping

1. present participle of strip

Noun

stripping (plural strippings)

1. The act of one who strips.
   • 1879, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Volume II Part IV: Ceremonial Institutions

     The mutual bows and courtesies […] are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive.

   • 1863, Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers

     Never were cows that required such stripping.

2. (chemistry, engineering) A physical separation process where one or more components are removed from a liquid stream by a vapor stream

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• trippings

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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