(v. t.) To obtain by distillation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; to distill alcoholic spirits from grain; to distill essential oils from flowers, etc.; to distill fresh water from sea water.
(v. t.) To subject to distillation; as, to distill molasses in making rum; to distill barley, rye, corn, etc.
(v. t.) To dissolve or melt.
Example Sentences:
(1) The target concentrations for the butane:pentane mixtures were 4500 and 1000 parts per million (ppm), while 5200 and 1200 ppm were set for the gasoline distillation fraction.
(2) A transient increase in the membrane potential was observed when distilled water was applied to the membrane adapted to an appropriate salt solution, which was similar to the water response observed in taste cells.
(3) The distribution of the kations in the hair can be changed by washing with distilled water.
(4) Indeed, mainstream economics is a pitifully thin distillation of historical wisdom on the topics that it addresses.
(5) Only a drastic osmotic shock in distillated water as a mean to disrupt mitochondrial membrane was found to strongly increase the actual rate of the rotenone-sensitive activity.
(6) Aggregated virus was not dispersed by one-step dilution (7,000-fold) in distilled or untreated lake water but was dispersed if phosphate-buffered saline or clarified secondary sewage plant effluent was used as diluent.
(7) Sections are brought to water, stained in Delafield's alum hematoxylin for 10 minutes, washed in tap water for 10 minutes, counterstained in 1% Procion brillant orange M-GS for 15 minutes and washed in distilled water for 10 minutes.
(8) Surfaces of the specimens made with slurry water were significantly harder than those of specimens made with distilled water.
(9) The sensitivity and specificity of cold air, ultrasonically nebulized distilled water mist (USM), and standard methacholine (MCH) challenges were studied in 21 children with asthma (mean age 11.5 years) and 12 normal children (mean age 14.2 years).
(10) We find that freeze-drying is the most reliable and easy method for molecules that withstand distilled water; freeze-etching can be successfully applied to transmembrane proteins (even in the presence of detergents or salt); the glycerol-spray technique provides an excellent alternative to the cryotechniques in particular for studies of single linear molecules.
(11) The effect of intravenously administered distilled water was examined alone and during alkalization in a patient with gross hematuria associated with the sickle cell trait.
(12) As regards method of administration, CMNX from a vial was dissolved in physiological saline or distilled water for injection, and the solution was administered by 3 to 5 minutes one shot intravenous injection (15 cases), or CMNX was diluted with large volume parenteral product and administered by 30 to 60 minutes drip infusion (10 cases).
(13) I quoted Cooke because, as he himself suggests, what he wrote is a pure distillation of a widely held view in US political discourse.
(14) Added NADH had no effect on O2 consumption at 80 mosM but sharply stimulated it when platelet suspensions were exposed to 60 mosM media by pretreatment with distilled water.
(15) Thai rice (25 g) was boiled with 500 ml of distilled water for 30 min.
(16) Acidic rinsing resulted in an immediate 90% reduction in exhaled ammonia in all subjects, and a return to 50% of baseline levels occurred within 1 h. Depletion that resulted from tooth brushing or distilled water alone was not significant.
(17) No growth of Coccidioides immitis occurred when fluid from infected tissue or arthrospores suspended in distilled water were plated on the surface of Sabouraud medium, solidified with refined agar, and containing 20 mg of polymyxin B per liter.
(18) A traction test of bodies prepared from Superpont C + B wal also to assess the range of firmness in relation to the period of storage in distilled water.
(19) 0-2-0-4 mM-NaCl show lower rates of net salt loss in distilled water and higher rates of net salt uptake form dilute NaCl solutions than do populations from freshwaters of ca.
(20) The vesicles suspended in saline retained 100 kilodalton protein of which amount is correlated with prodigiosin level, but the 100 kDa protein was found in the supernatant when the vesicles were lysed in distilled water.
Schnapps
Definition:
(n.) Holland gin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fast transport of axonal vesicles and organelles is a microtubule-associated movement (Griffin, J. W., K. E. Fahnestock, L. Price, and P. N. Hoffman, 1983, J. Neuroscience, 3:557-566; Schnapp, B. J., R. D. Vale, M. P. Sheetz, and T. S. Reese, 1984, Cell, 40:455-462; Allen, R. D., D. G. Weiss, J. H. Hayden, D. T. Brown, H. Fujiwake, and M. Simpson, 1985, J.
(2) Product placement prize Boris Johnson's dad and clone, "Stan the Baptist" Johnson, who blatantly displayed a copy of his new book throughout a TV interview and called rising Tory Grant Shapps "Grant Schnapps."
(3) A young Berliner, brandishing schnapps, was the first from his ditch to climb.
(4) Amir threw up his cuffed hands and declared, “I did it.” Then he asked Naftali if he could bring a drink – a “schnapps”, he said – to toast the news.
(5) We also had homemade cocktails – our friend Steve had designed a whisky peach tea: posh peach Schnapps with whisky and actual tea.
(6) Ahlenfelder of course denied drinking alcohol, but later he admitted that he had 'several Maltesers' (a schnapps) before the match.