(British distil)

source: GIF Experiments (GIXP): Distillation of Water

verb with object

1. purify (a liquid) by vaporizing it, then condensing it by cooling the vapor, and collecting the resulting liquid:

〈液体〉を蒸留する; «…から» 蒸留して〈純粋な液体〉を作る «from» .

e.g. they managed to distill a small quantity of water

e.g. (as adjective distilled) : dip the slide in distilled water.

make (something, especially liquor or an essence) in this way:

«…から» 蒸留して〈ウイスキーなど〉を作る «from» ;〖～ A into B〗 Aを蒸留してB〈ウイスキーなど〉にする

e.g. whiskey is distilled from a mash of grains

e.g. (as noun distilling) : the distilling industry.

extract the essence of (something) by heating it with a solvent.

【植物などから】〈油･香水など〉を蒸留して抽出する «from»

remove (a volatile constituent) of a mixture by using heat:

蒸留して〈不純物〉を取り除く

e.g. coal tar is made by distilling out the volatile products in coal.

no object literary emanate as a vapor or in minute drops:

蒸留される; 〈蒸留液が〉したたり落ちる.

e.g. she drew back from the dank breath that distilled out of the earth.

2. extract the essential meaning or most important aspects of:

〈情報･経験など〉を要約する, …の要旨を抽出［抜粋］する; 〖～ A into B〗 A〈情報･考え〉をB〈本など〉にまとめる

e.g. my travel notes were distilled into a book

e.g. (as adjective distilled) : the employee report is a distilled version of the main accounts.

distillatory |-əˌtôrē| adjective

late Middle English: from Latin distillare, variant of destillare, from de- ‘down, away’ + stillare (from stilla ‘a drop’).