percolate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin percōlātus, perfect passive participle of percōlō (“to filter”), itself, from per (“through”) + cōlō (“to strain”) (from cōlum (“a strainer”), of unknown origin); see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: percolates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: percolating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: percolated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: percolated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Fluidextracts are liquid alcoholic preparations of uniform and definite strength, made by percolating drugs with menstrua, and concentrating a portion of the percolate […]
gloss: To drain or seep through a porous substance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Water percolates through sand.
gloss: To make (coffee) in a percolator.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'll percolate some coffee.
Boiled, percolated, pressed, or filtered, black coffee ranges from a light tea-like drink to deep black brew.
gloss: (of coffee) to be prepared by percolation; (of a coffee pot) to brew coffee in this way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Reports on the pitiful state of many prisons have finally percolated through to the Home Office, which has promised to look into the situation.
Through media reports it percolated to the surface that the police investigation was profoundly flawed.
[…] so that quite a perceptible interval of time elapsed before the true dimensions of the affront to his dignity commenced to percolate into the befogged and pain-racked convolutions of his brain.
Some are prepared to pay for placement; others use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) hoping their result percolates up the organic SERP.
The moves were a TikTokky blend of semaphore and street dance, busy with content. The teen, whose name is Zoi Lerma, has a large following on the network and her dance percolated around the world, with other celebrated TikTokkers adding their own versions.
Related words: percolation
percolator
colander
coulee
Derived words: overpercolated
percolative
repercolate
subpercolating
unpercolated
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: просмуквам се
roman: prosmukvam se
lang: Dutch
word: percoleren
lang: Dutch
word: filteren
lang: Dutch
word: filtreren
lang: Esperanto
word: traguti
lang: Finnish
word: suotautua
lang: Finnish
word: suotua
lang: Finnish
word: siivilöityä
lang: Finnish
word: tihkua läpi
lang: French
word: percoler
lang: French
word: filtrer
lang: Georgian
word: გაჟონვა
roman: gažonva
lang: Georgian
word: გამოსვლა
roman: gamosvla
lang: German
word: versickern
lang: Irish
word: síothlaigh
lang: Italian
word: drenare
lang: Italian
word: percolare
lang: Manx
word: sheel
lang: Portuguese
word: permear
lang: Russian
word: проса́чиваться
roman: prosáčivatʹsja
lang: Russian
word: просочи́ться
roman: prosočítʹsja
lang: Russian
word: проходи́ть
roman: proxodítʹ
lang: Russian
word: пройти́
roman: projtí
lang: Spanish
word: percolar
lang: Turkish
word: teressüh etmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: просо́чуватися
roman: prosóčuvatysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: просочи́тися
roman: prosočýtysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: фільтрува́тися
roman: filʹtruvátysja