[
UK
/pˈɜːkəlˌeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈpɝkəˌɫeɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈpɝkəˌɫeɪt/ ]
VERB
-
spread gradually
Light percolated into our house in the morning -
prepare in a percolator
percolate coffee - cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent
-
pass through
Water permeates sand easily -
gain or regain energy
I picked up after a nap -
permeate or penetrate gradually
the fertilizer leached into the ground
NOUN
- the product of percolation
How To Use percolate In A Sentence
- The sunlight percolates into our classroom.
- The hot thermal pools are fringed by extraordinarily colourful mineral deposits, while sulphurous steam percolates all around.
- The sunlight percolates into our classroom.
- Our emotions swim in a soup of hormones and peptides that percolate through our whole body.
- Water will percolate down through the soil/trash mixture and collect in the bottom.
- The presence of shallow depressions in the ground surface allows time for water to percolate into the soil and reduces the volume and speed of flow across the slope.
- The cold, bottom water that percolates down into the cracks in the ocean crust carries its own complement of chemicals.
- Inevitably ideas percolate from one religion to another.
- Water would naturally percolate through the rocks, and this would speed up the cooling of the pluton.
- The message has begun to percolate through the organization.