[verb pur-kuh-leyt; noun pur-kuh-lit, -leyt] /verb ˈpɜr kəˌleɪt; noun ˈpɜr kə lɪt, -ˌleɪt/
verb (used with object), percolated, percolating.
to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
(of a liquid) to filter through; permeate.
to brew (coffee) in a .
verb (used without object), percolated, percolating.
to pass through a porous substance; filter; ooze; seep; trickle.
to become percolated:
The coffee is starting to percolate.
to become active, lively, or spirited.
to show activity, movement, or life; grow or spread gradually; germinate:
Interest in the idea has begun to percolate.
a percolated liquid.
to cause (a liquid) to pass through a fine mesh, porous substance, etc, or (of a liquid) to pass through a fine mesh, porous substance, etc; trickle: rain percolated through the roof
to permeate; penetrate gradually: water percolated the road
(intransitive) (US, informal) to become active or lively: she percolated with happiness
to make (coffee) or (of coffee) to be made in a percolator
noun (ˈpɜːkəlɪt; -ˌleɪt)
a product of percolation
1620s, a back-formation from percolation, or else from Latin percolatus, past participle of percolare “to strain through.” Figurative sense by 1670s. Related: Percolated; percolating.
percolate per·co·late (pûr’kə-lāt’)
v. per·co·lat·ed, per·co·lat·ing, per·co·lates
n. (-lĭt, -lāt’)
A liquid that has been percolated.per’co·la’tion n.
[all senses fr the coffee-making device; sense of ”run well,” for example, fr the steady cheery bubbling of the coffeemaker]
[pur-kuh-ley-shuh n] /ˌpɜr kəˈleɪ ʃən/ noun 1. the act or state of or of being . 2. Pharmacology. the extraction of the soluble principles of a crude drug by the passage of a suitable liquid through it. 3. Geology. the slow movement of water through the pores in soil or permeable rock. n. 1610s, from […]
[pur-kuh-ley-ter] /ˈpɜr kəˌleɪ tər/ noun 1. a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water in a repeated process is forced up a hollow stem, filters down through ground coffee in a sievelike container, and returns to the pot below. 2. something that . /ˈpɜːkəˌleɪtə/ noun 1. a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water is […]
- Per contiguum
per contiguum per con·tig·u·um (pər kən-tĭg’yōō-əm) adv. By or through contiguity, as in the spread of infection or inflammation between adjacent structures.
- Per continuum
per continuum per con·tin·u·um (pər kən-tĭn’yōō-əm) adv. By or through continuity, as in the spread of infection or inflammation from one part to another through continuous tissue.