Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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distil

UK /dɪˈstɪl/ · US /dəˈstɪl/ verb

Forms distils distilling distilled distill

  1. verb To exude (a liquid) in small drops; also, to give off (a vapour) which condenses in small drops. “Firs distil resin.”
  2. verb (by extension, figuratively) To impart (information, etc.) in small quantities; to infuse.
  3. verb To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.
  4. verb Followed by off or out: to expel (a volatile substance) from something by distillation.
  5. verb To extract the essence of (something) by, or as if by, distillation; to concentrate, to purify.
  6. verb To transform a thing (into something else) by distillation.
  7. verb (also figuratively) To make (something, especially spirits such as gin and whisky) by distillation.
  8. verb (machine learning) To train a neural network on the outputs or behaviour of a more complex model in order to transfer selected knowledge and capabilities and create a smaller, more focused, or more efficient model.

Synonyms

condense distill extract

Etymology

From Late Middle English distillen (“to fall, flow, or shed in drops, drop, trickle; to shed drops; to fill (the eyes) with tears; (alchemy, medicine) to subject (something) to distillation; to obtain (something) using distillation; to distil; to condense or vaporize; (figuratively) to give (good fortune) to; to say (slanderous words)”) [and other forms], from Old French distiller (modern French distiller (“to distil”)), and from its etymon Latin distīllāre, a variant of Latin dēstīllāre, the present active infinitive of dēstīllō (“to drip or trickle down; to distil”), from dē- (prefix meaning ‘down, down from, down to’) + stīllō (“to drip, drop, trickle; to distil”) (from stīlla (“drop of liquid; (figuratively) small quantity”), probably a diminutive of stīria (“ice drop; icicle”)).
* French distiller (“to distil”)
* Italian distillare (“to distil”)
* Portuguese destilar (“to distil; to drip”)
* Spanish destilar (“to distil; to exude; to filter”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb See Distill.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “distil”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “distil” (best matches first).

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