Definition of percolates Percolates
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What does percolates mean?
Wiktionary 
- percolates (Noun)
Plural of percolate.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
NounPlural: percolates |
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| percolate - the product of percolation | ||
| filtrate the product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter | ||
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| percolate - pass through; "Water permeates sand easily" | ||
| sink in, permeate, filter | ||
| perforate, penetrate come to understand | ||
| infiltrate pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict | ||
| infiltrate pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict | ||
| percolate - prepare in a percolator; "percolate coffee" | ||
| percolate pass through; "Water permeates sand easily" | ||
| percolate - cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent | ||
| percolate pass through; "Water permeates sand easily" | ||
| percolate - spread gradually; "Light percolated into our house in the morning" | ||
| fan out, diffuse, spread out, spread move outward; "The soldiers fanned out" | ||
| percolate - permeate or penetrate gradually; "the fertilizer leached into the ground" | ||
| leach | ||
| trickle, filter, dribble run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in" | ||
| percolate - gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap" | ||
| perk up, perk, pick up, gain vigor | ||
| convalesce, recuperate, recover get over an illness or shock; "The patient is recuperating" | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- percolate (v. t.)
To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. - percolate (v. i.)
To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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percolate
To pass a liquid gradually through small spaces or a porous substance.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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percolate
pėr′kō-lāt, v.t. to strain through pores or small openings, as a liquid: to filter.—v.i. to pass or ooze through very small openings: to filter.—n. a filtered liquid.—ns. Percolā′tion, act of filtering; Per′colator, a filtering vessel. [L. percolāre,-ātum—per, through, colāre, to strain.]
Part of speech
🔤- percolate, verb, present, 1st person singular of percolate (infinitive).
- percolate, verb (infinitive).
- percolate, noun, singular of percolates.
