distil

verb

1. give off (a liquid)

e.g. The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound

Synonym: distill

2. undergo the process of distillation

Synonym: distill

3. extract by the process of distillation

e.g. distill the essence of this compound

Synonym: distillextract

4. undergo condensation
change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops

e.g. water condenses
The acid distills at a specific temperature

Synonym: condensedistill

1. 蒸馏;用蒸馏法提取
If a liquid such as whisky or water is distilled, it is heated until it changes into steam or vapour and then cooled until it becomes liquid again. This is usually done in order to make it pure.

e.g. The whisky had been distilled in 1926 and sat quietly maturing until 1987...
这种威士忌是在1926年通过蒸馏提取的，尔后静置到 1987年才酿熟。
e.g. You can't actually drink the water from the marshland. But you can distil it...
沼泽地的水不能饮用，但是可以将它蒸馏净化。

2. 提取(植物的)精华;提炼
If an oil or liquid is distilled from a plant, it is produced by a process which extracts the most essential part of the plant. To distil a plant means to produce an oil or liquid from it by this process.

e.g. The oil is distilled from the berries of this small tree.
油是从这种小树的浆果中提炼出来的。
e.g. ...the art of distilling rose petals...
提取玫瑰花瓣精油的技巧

3. 精炼，浓缩（想法等）;吸收…为一部分
If a thought or idea is distilled from previous thoughts, ideas, or experiences, it comes from them. If it is distilled into something, it becomes part of that thing.

e.g. Reviews are distilled from articles previously published in the main column...
述评是从先前刊登在主要专栏的文章中提炼出来的。
e.g. Eventually passion was distilled into the natural beauty of a balmy night...
最后激情融入了美丽宜人的夜色中。

1. distil的反义词

1. 蒸馏：威士忌酿酒厂的英文单词用的是Distiller而不是Brewry,原因是生产过程靠蒸馏(Distil)而成. 另外一个有趣的小知识:苏格兰的威士忌不同于美国造,前者用高地特产的大麦为原料,而后者使用的是小麦或玉米. 1745年,

2. 分馏：汽油 gasoline, petrol | 分馏 distil | 蒸发性 evaporating property

3. 蒸馏;滴下;提取...的精华：distension 膨胀 | distil 蒸馏;滴下;提取...的精华 | distilland 被蒸馏物

4. 摘出：distichous 二列的 | distil 摘出 | distil 抽取