A device for a separation operation in which a dispersion of immiscible liquids settles and coalesces forming two distinct layers
{i} bottle in which wine or liquors are kept (especially one made of crystal or cut glass)
A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors; a kind of glass bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled
(verb) The act of pouring out a liquid, usually with the intent of leaving some of the liquid behind in the original container The act of decanting can also involve pouring the liquid portion off of the top of a precipitate that has settled to the bottom of a beaker
(1) To draw off the upper layer of liquid after the heaviest material (a solid or other liquid) has settled (2) To pour a liquid gently and carefully from one container to another so as not to disturb sediment ADVANCE \x 540
If you decant a liquid into another container, you put it into another container. She always used to decant the milk into a jug. to pour liquid, especially wine, from one container into another decant sth into sth (decantare, from cantus )
To draw off or remove The removal of water from the top of the water/solids slurry once settling of solids has occurred At the tailings storage facilities excess water is decanted and returned to the water treatment plant