distillate vs excerpt

distillate

noun
  • The liquid that has been condensed from vapour during distillation; normally a purified form or a fraction of an original liquid. 

  • The essence of something. 

  • Diesel fuel. 

excerpt

verb
  • To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work. 

noun
  • A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition. 

How often have the words distillate and excerpt occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )