Distil in a sentence as a verb

These are cases where you can distil knowledge into a few examples and cases, and it works well.

I don't think it would be fair to distil World War II into 15 minutes, much less the last 100 years.

Stage 2 is to take the notes and try to distil it into a 1-page coherent top-down design.

Parts of Sunspider and V8 tried to look at what the web was and distil it into a useful benchmark - that's a good start [5].

It seems that a premise of YC is not so much to train great startup founders as to distil them out of the world population.

"I hope one day we will be able to distil the ultimate rule: "being smart and proactive is discriminatory".

I don't think history and many of the humanities can be distiller into 10 minute chunks.

This is another great example of why you can't take successful people and distil them down to their base components and say "ah, this is what made him great!

Answering it properly would require someone to pause and reflect over what could be a 20-40+ year journey and then take time to distil it down into an email.

> When everyone isn't getting rich, everyone gets to fight with each otherI like proverbs, they often distil penetrating wisdom.

It seems somewhat unfortunate to distil this down to where there are only two possible interpretations of someones idea, right and wrong.

Kernighan and Ritchie built upon prior languages, but they were able to distil what levels and kinds of abstraction were needed to implement portable systems programs.

Perhaps a different way to distil your point: the film industry is stuck in a particular local optimum, and one needs to take into account the position of the actors when assessing their actions.

About 10 years ago I read a ton of Karl Marx, and the biggest thing which struck me was that the vocabulary to describe what he was talking about was not invented until modern times -- he talks of the "mechanisation of the means of production," which we can distil down to "robots.

Distil definitions

verb

undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"

See also: condense distill

verb

extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"

See also: distill extract

verb

undergo the process of distillation

See also: distill

verb

give off (a liquid); "The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound"

See also: distill