0 to make a liquid stronger or purer by heating it until it changes to a gas and then cooling it so that it changes back into a liquid: --
1 to get or show only the most important part of something: --
2 to heat a liquid until it changes to a gas and then make it liquid again by cooling: --
She helped distill the inmate complaints into a list of demands.
Like poetry, quality childrens literature compresses language, distills feeling, evokes scenes, and can be experienced on multiple levels.
Democratic accountability is a tried, tested and practised means of ensuring that the heady mixtures which the security services can distill behind closed doors are held in check.
I know of parties who import other things which they distill for various technical purposes.
In section 4, we discuss issues relevant to the representation of lambda terms and distill from this an encoding for them that can be used in an actual implementation.
Although interest in fillers has grown amazingly, we definitely need more detailed descriptions of filler production and development, in order to be able to distill individual and language specific trends.
Wildes rejects consumer, contractual, and client models because they tend to distill out essential humanistic and communal elements of healthcare, neglecting the degree to which patients remain vulnerable and dependent.
Finally, we distill the guidelines for developing ontologies from the ontology engineering community into a set of best practices, and compile a list of design principles for evaluating existing ontologies.
