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Distention
- noun - the act of expanding by pressure from within
- the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions
Distichous
- - Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.
Distillate
- noun - a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling
Distillers
- noun - someone who distills alcoholic liquors
Distillery
- noun - a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation
Distilling
- verb - extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
- give off (a liquid); "The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound"
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water"
- undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"
- undergo the process of distillation
Distinctly
- adverb - clear to the mind; with distinct mental discernment; "it's distinctly possible"; "I could clearly see myself in his situation"
- in a distinct and distinguishable manner; "the subtleties of this distinctly British occasion"
- to a distinct degree; "urbanization in Spain is distinctly correlated with a fall in reproductive rate"
Distorting
- verb -
- affect as in thought or feeling;
- alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- twist and press out of shape
Distortion
- noun - a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal); "heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion"
- a change for the worse
- a shape resulting from distortion
- an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- the mistake of misrepresenting the facts