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Definition of Percolate
1. Verb. Permeate or penetrate gradually. "The fertilizer leached into the ground"
2. Noun. The product of percolation.
3. Verb. Spread gradually. "Light percolated into our house in the morning"
4. Verb. Prepare in a percolator. "Percolate coffee"
5. Verb. Cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent.
6. Verb. Pass through. "Water permeates sand easily"
Generic synonyms: Penetrate, Perforate
Specialized synonyms: Infiltrate, Infiltrate
Derivative terms: Filtration, Filtration, Percolation, Permeant, Permeation
7. Verb. Gain or regain energy. "I picked up after a nap"
Generic synonyms: Convalesce, Recover, Recuperate
Derivative terms: Pickup
Definition of Percolate
1. v. t. To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.
2. v. i. To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.
Definition of Percolate
1. Verb. (transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To drain or seep through a porous substance. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) (figuratively) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised. ¹
5. Noun. (rare) A liquid that has been percolated. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Percolate
1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percolate
Literary usage of Percolate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Pharmacy by Henry Vinecome Arny (1917)
"The weak percolate is evaporated to soft extract—most of the water is driven from
... 161, and percolate exactly as there described, with one exception. ..."
2. American Druggist (1891)
"previous apparent exhaustion of the drug when the menstruum was changed to alcohol
2, water 1, The first 116 pints of percolate abstracted (calculated to 1 ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1882)
"In two days brown precipitate appeared in the mixed percolate, nono in the first
or second. In twenty days there was u precipitate •in the first percolate. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1910)
"As to the amount of percolate required for exhaustion of drug he reports (A. Ph.
A. 18, 164) that 16 troy ounces aconite take at least 13 pints of percolate ..."
5. Handbook of Pharmacy by Virgil Coblentz (1895)
"The first six parts of the percolate are reserved, and the remaining ... Of the
second percolate 8 parts are reserved, and the weaker percolate which is ..."
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