How to use "distill" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "distill" in popular movie and book plots

  • Meanwhile, three aliens — Christopher Johnson (Jason Cope), his son, and a friend — scavenge pieces of their technology from which they distill a fluid of their native provenance, and store it in a small canister.  - District 9
  • Rural residents build a lightweight, cheap horse-drawn buggy, and stills to distill alcohol from farm waste.  - Ecotopia Emerging
  • Miss Milray was secretly in love with her long-time employer, and thus ready to destroy the equipment Sir Charles used to distill the nicotine poison.  - Three Act Tragedy
  • When his supply of liquor runs out, Homer begins to distill his own homemade liquor.  - Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment
  • The villagers distill a potent sweet potato brandy in a matter of days which finds a ready market in the American army.  - The Teahouse of the August Moon (film)
  • She is a gifted chemist and is using the set-up of the washhouse to anaesthetise the miners and distill from them the neurochemicals that enable sleep.  - The Mark of the Rani

Example sentences for "distill" in interesting articles

  • I can distill the essence of the entire argument to: “Don’t hate the player, but don’t hate the game either.  - Paul Graham Is Still Asking to Be Eaten
  • It was big, bold, visionary, and made a difference.So, for those of you in the same boat, I’ve tried to distill some conclusions I’ve reached after finally digging myself back out and finding my true calling again.Here are five things to think about, and remember.Thing 1: You Knew What You Signed Up ForAs we get older, we all get tired of dealing with things.  - Five Things Old Programmers Should Remember
  • In the presence of a lecturer or interview subject, typing seems to turn us automatically into transcriptionists, trying desperately to capture verbatim the incoming words, instead of trying to ingest and distill their meaning.  - The Joy of Typing
  • Is the point of this document to provide a transcript of the entire event, or distill the talking points of speakers into actionable information?\u000bA.  - Startup School 2013 Notes
  • That is what you get once you distill all the evidence for all the people.  - Excerise cannot undo effects of prolonged sitting
  • More enduring will be the need for data scientists to communicate in language that all their stakeholders understand—and to demonstrate the special skills involved in storytelling with data, whether verbally, visually, or—ideally—both. But we would say the dominant trait among data scientists is an intense curiosity—a desire to go beneath the surface of a problem, find the questions at its heart, and distill them into a very clear set of hypotheses that can be tested.  - Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
  • Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us scale Y Combinator if we could distill the most generalizable parts of this advice into a sort of playbook we could give YC and YC Fellowship companies.Then we thought we should just give it to everyone.This is meant for people new to the world of startups.  - Startup Playbook
  • Unfortunately I don't think I can distill everything about design into this or any number of posts.  - Crash Course: Design for Startups
  • It’s too important, they wrote, “to give the investigators, on behalf of the study participants, who invested years of their lives in the study, the opportunity to see what led the sponsor to stop the trial and then the opportunity to distill a clinical message from it.  - Criticism of “Research Parasites” Moves Medical Journal in Wrong Direction
  • All these badly implemented social graph fads dancing around the mulberry bush in a desperate attempt to distill which social-graph functions are sticky enough and practical enough to be absorbed it the stream of daily mass culture. This situation is ripe with opportunity.  - Dear Google: You Cant Threaten People Into Being Social

Meaning of "distill" in English

  • give off (a liquid)
  • undergo the process of distillation
  • extract by the process of distillation
  • undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops
    Example
    - The acid distills at a specific temperature
  • remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation

Meaning of "distill" in Hindi

  • शुद्ध करना ( Shuddh karana, shuddh karanaa)
  • आसवन करना ( Aasavan karana, aasavan karanaa, aasawan karana)
  • शुद्ध होना ( Shuddh hona, shuddh honaa)
  • सारभूत होना ( Sarabhut hona, saarabhoot honaa)

Synonyms of "distill"

  • condense
  • purify
  • make pure
  • sublimate
  • distil
  • extract

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