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Definition: Distillate |
DistillateNoun1. A liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "distillate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | An alcoholic liquid obtained by the distillation, after alcoholic fermentation, of agricultural products listed in Annex II to the Treaty but which does not have the properties of rethyl alcohol or of spirituous beverages and still retains the aroma and taste of the raw materials used. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: DistillateSynonym: distillation (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Distillate |
| English words defined with "distillate": Light oil ♦ Middle oil, mineral oil. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "distillate": ACID-POLYMERIZATION OPERATOR ♦ Bunker fuel ♦ CATALYTIC CRACKING, circulating reflux, crude wax, Current Sourcing Logic ♦ D.E.R.V.-fuel, DISTILLER II ♦ first runnings, foreshots ♦ gas-oil ♦ heads ♦ juniper-flavoured spirit drink ♦ PARAFFIN-PLANT-SWEATER OPERATOR, petroleum wax, pump back, pumpback reflux ♦ reflux ratio ♦ slack wax, STILL TENDER, sweater operator ♦ tar oil, tractor-fuel ♦ water-gas-tar creosote ♦ Zinc Chloride Catalysts process. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Distillate from turpentine still separates into two layers of water and spirits of turpentine which are easily removed from one another, State Line, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The Arpechim and Petrotel refineries produce oils and motor oils. Oils are derived from unselected crude oils through the distillate vacuum hydrogen cracking followed by catalytic dewaxing. (references) | |
Economic History | Bahrain | It also markets liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), naphtha, gasoline, kerosene, aviation fuel, diesel oil, heavy lube distillate, fuel oil and asphalt produced at BAPCO's refinery. (references) |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | In 1999 CIO officer Richard Mutswiri Mutiti reportedly filed a suit with the High Court alleging that four CIO officials had beaten and kicked him, doused him with a flammable petroleum distillate, and threatened to burn him, while detaining him without warrant at the Harare Central Police Station in 1998. A CIO disciplinary committee reportedly recommended the firing of the four officials in 1998, and one reportedly resigned soon thereafter. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Distillate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Distillate" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "distillate": gas distillate. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
distillate petroleum | 6 |
demand distillate fuel sector transportation | 2 |
distillate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "distillate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | distiloj (distil, distill, extract), distilat, produkt distilimi, esencë (crux of the matter, essence, gist), ekstrakt (clip, excerpt, extract, infusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | القطارة (distillation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | дестилат, дестилирам (distil, retort, still). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 馏份. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | destilovat (distil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | destillat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | distillaat, destillaat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | عصاره (Extract, Juice, Sap), عرق (Arrack, Sweat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | voiteluöljyjae (lube cut, lube distillate cut, lube fraction, lube stock, lubricating-oil distillate, lubricating-oil feedstock), voiteluöljyfraktio (lube cut, lube distillate cut, lube fraction, lube stock, lubricating-oil distillate, lubricating-oil feedstock), runsasbensiininen luonnonkaasu (combination gas, fat gas, gas distillate, raw gas, rich gas, wet gas), korkealämpöarvoinen kaasu (combination gas, fat gas, gas distillate, raw gas, rich gas, wet gas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | distillateur (distiller, distillery), distillat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Destillat (essential oil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απόσταγμα (essence, extract). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תזקיק. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | párlat (distillation, extract, runnings), desztillátum. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | hasil sulingan, hasil saringan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | distillato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | driggys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | istillateday destilado. (various references) distilat (distilled). (various references) погон (run, shoulder loop, shoulder strap), перегонять (distil, distilling, retort). (various references) destilisati, destilirati (distill), destilat. (various references) destilar (distil, distill, exude), destilado. (various references) destillat (distillation). (various references) damıtılmış sıvı, öz (compact, compendious, content, core, cream, distillation, elixir, entity, epitome, essence, essential oil, extract, extraction, full, genuine, gist, goodness, guts, heartbeat, kernel, marrow, matter, meat, medulla, nucleus, own, pith, pith and marrow, pulp, quick, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, stuff, substance, substantiality, substratum, sum, whole). (various references) очищена нафта (petrol), опріснена вода, дистилят. (various references) sản phẩm cất. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "distillate": distillates. (additional references) | |
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"Distillate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: destilated, destillated, distilate, distilated, instillated, pistillate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "distillate" (pronounced di"stulā't or di"stulut) |
| 5 | -t u l ā' t | mutilate, titillate, ventilate. |
| 4 | -u l ā' t | accumulate, adulate, annihilate, articulate, assimilate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, congratulate, copulate, correlate, depopulate, emulate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, formulate, gastrulate, inoculate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, manipulate, miscalculate, oscillate, overregulate, percolate, populate, postulate, recalculate, recapitulate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate, undulate, vacillate. |
| 3 | -l ā' t | angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate. |
| 4 | -u l u t | amulet, consulate, desolate, inarticulate, inviolate, particulate, ultraviolet, Violet. |
| 3 | -l u t | anklet, appellate, autopilot, ballot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, copilot, droplet, emasculate, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, immaculate, lancelet, leaflet, mallet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, palate, palette, pallet, pamphlet, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, tablet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, wallet, zealot. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-l-l-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: tailslide. | |
-2 letters: diallist, idealist, tillites. | |
-3 letters: dailies, dallies, details, dialist, dilates, dillies, distill, ditties, elitist, illites, laities, liaised, littles, sallied, sedilia, slatted, slitted, stalled, stilled, stilted, tailles, tallest, tallied, tallies, tidiest, tillite. | |
-4 letters: aisled, allied, allies, dalles, deasil, delist, deltas, desalt, detail, dilate, distal, distil, ideals, idlest, iliads, illest, illite, ladies, ladles, lasted, latest. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-l-l-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: distillates. | |
+2 letters: scintillated. | |
+4 letters: dialectologist, dilatabilities, redistillation. | |
+5 letters: delectabilities, dialectologists, redistillations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 74 69 6C 6C 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... - .. .-.. .-.. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s t i l l a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0074 0069 006C 006C 0061 0074 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38758586757878678671 |
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