distilling
noun
[ dɪˈstɪlɪŋ ]
• the process of making spirits or an essence by distilling.
• "the distilling of grain whisky"
• the fact or process of extracting the essential meaning or most important aspects of something.
• "the album's poignant distilling of the fading of youth and optimism"
distil
verb
• purify (a liquid) by heating it so that it vaporizes, then cooling and condensing the vapour and collecting the resulting liquid.
• "they managed to distil a small quantity of water"
• extract the essential meaning or most important aspects of.
• "my travel notes were distilled into a book"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin distillare, variant of destillare, from de- ‘down, away’ + stillare (from stilla ‘a drop’).
