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Definition: Distiller |
DistillerNoun1. Someone who distills alcoholic liquors. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "distiller" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Natural or legal persons or groups of such persons, other than makers of fortified wine if they:1)are approved by the competent authorities of the Member State in which they are established;2)buy from a producer as defined in paragraph 1(a)wine or the by-products of wine-making or of any other form of processing of grapes with a view to having them distilled for their own account by an approved distiller, and;3)pay the producer for the products purchased, not less than the minimum buying-in price for the distilled product in question. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Tends batch stills to separate, by distillation, liquids having divergent volatilization temperatures: Pours specified types and quantities of materials into still. Observes thermostat and sets controls on instrument panel to maintain specified volatilization temperatures throughout distillation cycle and to control condensation of components. Draws samples of distilled liquids for laboratory analysis or performs refractometric or other tests, using standard procedure and equipment. Observes color of distillate to determine when distillate is completed. Records operating data, such as weight, yield of products, gauge readings, and number of batches distilled. May tend continuous-flow vacuum still. May be designated according to product distilled or formed as Ammonia-Still Operator (chemical); Crystallizer Operator (chemical) II; Degreasing-Solution Reclaimer (chemical); Glycerin Operator (soap & rel.). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Distiller |
| Specialty definitions using "distiller": GIN SPINNER ♦ WEIGHER AND GRADER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Distiller" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (distil, distill, elaborate). |
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Travel | Ukraine | Long-term visitors may wish to consider bringing a distiller - not a filter - for a constant supply of potable water. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Distiller" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Distiller" is used about 15 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% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "distiller"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | distilues (distillatory), distilator, prodhues pijesh, aparat distilimi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المقطر جهاز التقطير. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | дестилатор (still). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '馏器. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | destilátor, vinopalník. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | destilleri, braenderiarbejder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | distilleerder, distillateur, likeurstoker. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تقطیرکننده , عرق کش , دستگاه تقطیر (Still). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | viinanpolttaja (moonshiner), tislaaja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | distillateur (distillate, distillery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | destillateur, brenner (burner, burners), Branntweinbrenner. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ποτοποιόσ, ποτοποιός, οινοπνευματοποιός, διυλιστήσ (refiner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | זקק (refiner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pálinkafőző (still-room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penyuling. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | distillatore (distillation plant, distilling plant, skimming plant), liquorista. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ' 家 (brewer, vintner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅぞうか (brewer, vintner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheeleyder (dribbler, refiner, seedsman), fer sheelee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | istillerday destilador (distillation plant, distilling plant, skimming plant). (various references) distilator (still), rafinor, povarnagiu, povarnã, persoanã care distileazã, ţuicar. (various references) винокур, опреснитель. (various references) destilator, proizvođač viskija. (various references) destilador. (various references) destillator (still), destillatör, sprittillverkare. (various references) damıtarak içki üreten kimse, damıtıcı (still), imbik (alembic, distillery, flask, retort, still). (various references) опріснювач (desalination), перегінний апарат, дистилятор. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "distiller": distilleries, distillers, distillery. (additional references) | |
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"Distiller" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gischler, Giswiler, pistolier. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "distiller" (pronounced di'sti"ler) |
| 5 | -s t i" l er | stiller. |
| 4 | -t i" l er | tiller. |
| 3 | -i" l er | biller, chiller, driller, filler, Giller, Hiller, killer, Miller, pillar, Schiller, Siller, Spiller, thriller, Willer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: redistill. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-l-l-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: stillier. | |
-2 letters: dillies, dirties, distill, ditsier, illites, rillets, sillier, siltier, stilled, stiller, tidiers, tillers, trellis, trilled. | |
-3 letters: delist, direst, distil, driest, drills, idlers, idlest, illest, illite, irides, irised, lilied, lilies, lilted, listed, listel, lister, liters, litres, relist, rilled, rilles, rillet, sidler, siller, silted, slider, stride, teiids, tidier, tidies, tildes, tilers, tilled, tiller, tirled. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-l-l-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: distillers, distillery, redistills. | |
+2 letters: redistilled. | |
+3 letters: distilleries, redistilling. | |
+4 letters: defibrillates, residentially, solderability, tredecillions. | |
+5 letters: defibrillators, disenthralling, drillabilities, presidentially, redistillation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 74 69 6C 6C 65 72 |
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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 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s t i l l e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0074 0069 006C 006C 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585867578787184 |
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