distill

(verb)

To extract the essence of; concentrate; purify.

Related Terms

  • brainstorming
  • topic

Examples of distill in the following topics:

  • The Whiskey Rebellion

    • Resistance came to a climax in July 1794, when a U.S. marshal arrived in western Pennsylvania to serve writs to distillers who had not paid the tax.
    • Small farmers also protested that Hamilton's excise effectively gave unfair tax breaks to large distillers, most of whom were based in the east.
    • Large distillers produced whiskey in volume and could afford the flat fee.
    • In May of that year, federal district attorney William Rawle issued subpoenas for more than 60 distillers in Pennsylvania who had not paid the excise tax.
    • Under the law then in effect, distillers who received these writs would be obligated to travel to Philadelphia to appear in federal court.
  • Choosing a Topic

    • When choosing your speech topic, brainstorm to generate many ideas, and distill those ideas to find your singular topic.
    • Once you've brainstormed your many ideas, it's time to refine your ideas and distill them into one topic.
    • This might give you even more ideas of how to refine and distill your topic, or more appropriately adapt it to your audience or venue.
  • Visuals

    • Visual aids help us distill complex concepts into clean, elegant expressions that are easily grasped by the audience.
    • Distilling complex ideas into an elegant display can aid in this process.
  • Scandals

    • Whiskey distillers in the Midwest were no strangers to evading taxes, having done so since the Lincoln administration.
    • This intensified during the Grant administration, as whiskey distillers bribed Treasury Department agents, who in turn helped the distillers evade taxes to the tune of up to $2 million per year; the agents would neglect to collect a duty of 70 cents per gallon, then split the bonus profits.
    • The ringleaders had to coordinate distillers, rectifiers, gaugers, storekeepers, revenue agents, and Treasury clerks by way of recruitment and extortion.
    • Because Bristow needed distillers to testify with immunity in order to pursue ringleaders, the order caused friction between him and Grant.
  • Main Group Organometallic Compounds

    • Diethylzinc may be prepared and distilled (b.p. 117 ºC) under a protective atmosphere of CO2.
    • Grignard and alkyl lithium reagents are not distillable liquids, and react rapidly with CO2 to give carboxylic acid salts.
  • Reactions of Alkanes

    • A mixture of products results, and these alkanes and alkenes can be separated by fractional distillation.
  • Sculpture

    • In revolt against the naturalism of Rodin and his late-19th-century contemporaries, Brâncuşi distilled subjects down to their essences as illustrated by the elegantly refined forms of his Bird in Space series (1924).
  • Defining Macroeconomics

    • Macroeconomics simplifies the complexities of the trading activities in an economy by distilling actions to primary participants and tracing the circular flow of activity between them.
  • Waxes

    • Paraffin wax is a type of synthetic wax derived from petroleum and refined by vacuum distillation.
  • Tax Accounting

    • As a result, the primary role of a tax accountant is to understand the business' current operating status, distill profitability before tax, and report earnings.
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