дистиллировать — meaning in English
distillirovat
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English meaning
Senses
дистиллировать is used for these senses in English:
- distil To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.
- rectify (transitive, chemistry) To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation. [from 15th c.]
distil — full definition
- verb To ooze out in small drops, or to give off a vapour that forms droplets.
- verb To pass on information gradually, a little at a time.
- verb To purify or separate a liquid by heating it into vapour and then cooling the vapour back into liquid form.
- verb To remove a substance from something by this heating-and-cooling process, usually used with 'off' or 'out'.
rectify — full definition
- verb To correct a mistake or fix a problem.
- verb In electronics, to convert alternating current into direct current.
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