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单词 percolate
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Definition of percolate in English:

percolate

verb ˈpəːkəleɪtˈpərkəˌleɪt
  • 1no object, with adverbial of direction (of a liquid or gas) filter gradually through a porous surface or substance.

    (液体,气体)渗透,渗漏;渗滤,过滤

    the water percolating through the soil may leach out minerals

    经土壤过滤的水会滤掉矿物质。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Over time, the saved water percolated upward through capillary action toward plants' thirsty roots.
    • Its summer melt area is increasing: fresh water's percolating down to the base of the glaciers and lubricating the base and its ice shelves are becoming unstable.
    • Water would naturally percolate through the rocks, and this would speed up the cooling of the pluton.
    • So those could be living down the cracks underneath the surface but the gasses will still percolate upwards.
    • But the Wekiva watershed - and its springshed, the area where surface water percolates into the aquifer and recharges the springs - is hardly pristine.
    • To this day, the web of living things filters our water as it percolates through soil.
    • The sand in the Marietta preserve overlies an ancient soil surface so hard and dense that water cannot percolate through it.
    • Variable preservation suggests that some of the pollen may have been redeposited, possibly by water percolating through layers during summer melting.
    • Water then percolates into the cracks, and the cycle repeats itself.
    • Runoff from steep ice-cliffs, or through subglacial flow driven by water percolating through pores or fractures, will convert a high fraction of melting into ablation.
    • Water will percolate down through the soil/trash mixture and collect in the bottom.
    • These deposits represent enrichments of ore minerals caused by surface waters that percolate downwards through an existing sulphide-rich orebody.
    • The only vehicle to get air into soil is water, which percolates through the soil profile, displacing carbon dioxide and pulling air into the vacuum.
    • As an added precaution, I also constructed plastic-lined and rock-filled drainage ditches on the surface to prevent water from percolating down from the surface.
    • He recently dug a trench that revealed high levels of magnesium and sulfur, suggesting water once percolated through the soil and evaporated leaving salts.
    • With water percolating upwards hundreds of feet from its leaks it has created wetlands and damp areas in the upstate Ulster and Orange counties that endure even in the region's worst drought.
    • The hematite could have formed from iron-rich materials in the original layers of sediment, or it could have been deposited from iron-rich water percolating through the sediments.
    • It's a process of alteration of this ash as the water percolates through.
    • You also have a natural filtration process as the water will percolate down through the ground and the ground will filter the water naturally.
    • The rover recently examined a rock named ‘Wishstone,’ which contains significant deposits of phosphorous that may have been left behind from water percolating up through the Martian surface.
    Synonyms
    filter, drain, drip, ooze, seep, trickle, dribble, strain, leak, leach
    rare filtrate, transude
    1. 1.1 Spread gradually through an area or group of people.
      〈喻〉(信息、思想或感情)扩散,弥漫
      continental ideas on art, science, and architecture percolated from Venice to London
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Inevitably ideas percolate from one religion to another.
      • Isn't it true there is no freedom of the press, without which good ideas do not percolate well?
      • The vast corpus of religious literature in regional languages which has not been adequately studied can provide interesting insights into how religious ideas percolated into different strata of society.
      • I hope to visit some of these ideas that are now percolating with regard to the worship experiences of today.
      • They did badly, in part, because much of this growth did not percolate into the rural areas.
      Synonyms
      spread, be disseminated, filter, pass, go
      penetrate, permeate, pervade, infiltrate
  • 2no object (of coffee) be prepared in a percolator.

    (咖啡)(在渗滤式咖啡壶中)滤煮

    he put some coffee on to percolate

    他把一些咖啡放到咖啡壶里滤煮。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The waiter duly brought the coffee which had obviously been percolating away for about six months, freshly-brewed being a relative term.
    • Around the world java percolates and teabags simmer in millions of homes each morning.
    • In the not too distant future this will be estate agents’ recommended background music while the bread bakes and the coffee percolates.
    • I looked over at the coffee pot, which had been done percolating for a good fifteen minutes.
    • Even today I can still recall the aroma of bacon cooking and coffee percolating on the woodstove while my mother started breakfast.
    • The kitchen smelled of cookies or whatever my Aunt Renee was finishing up for our desserts, and fresh coffee percolating.
    • Then we learnt how coffee was harvested, roasted, percolated, espressed and consumed.
    Synonyms
    brew
    informal perk
    1. 2.1with object Prepare (coffee) in a percolator.
      (咖啡)(在渗滤式咖啡壶中)滤煮
      it will have to be instant coffee—there's no time to percolate any
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A mango sorbet served with a very fruity Sauternes closes the dinner, and we retire to the lounge in various degrees of inebriation, drinking beautifully roasted and percolated coffee, while the chefs pack up in the kitchen.
      • Fortunately, percolated coffee came with milk.
      • He paused as he sniffed the air and glanced over at the coffee pot percolating java on the counter.
      • It promises to produce everything from the waft of freshly baked chocolate cookies to percolating coffee over a personal computer.
      • A coffee percolating machine was bubbling in the corner, making the room smell welcoming.
      • This, of course, is the sound of indie films, sometimes as if from the bottom of a well, rarely the crisp, percolating coffee and microwave beep of a Hollywood kitchen.
    2. 2.2US no object Be or become full of lively activity or excitement.
      〈喻,美〉变得有劲;显得活跃,非常兴奋
      the night was percolating with an expectant energy

      那个夜晚因充满期待而令人兴奋。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Mars certainly has your brain percolating with wild ideas and far-fetched fancies, but isn't it weird how nobody wants to know about anything out of the ordinary right now?
      • Despite the fact that tourism countrywide was down as much as 50 percent, the Khumbu still percolated with activity.
      • Thanks to new arts complexes sprouting like mushrooms across the map, the global dance village percolates with activity.
      • The reception area percolates with noise from clients and children as most of them cool off on the gracious leather furniture that flanks the big-screen TV.

Derivatives

  • percolation

  • noun pəːkəˈleɪʃ(ə)nˌpərkəˈleɪʃ(ə)n
    • For another example, consider the process of percolation, where a fluid trickles through the mazelike passages of a porous medium.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The world of the book is the percolation into articulate consciousness, into graphemes and syntax, of the manifold silences, the teeming capillary life of nature.
      • He added there was ‘a lot of skullduggery’ going on in relation to the inspection of trial holes and in many cases where percolation was inadequate permissions were being granted.
      • He complained that the planners' arguments in relation to septic tanks and lack of percolation were nothing more than a ‘convenient’ means of refusing permission.
      • Jamaican caves are formed by the percolation, or flow, of the slightly acidic rainfall that twice a year pummels the soluble limestone in which the systems are found.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin percolat- 'strained through', from the verb percolare, from per- 'through' + colare 'to strain' (from colum 'strainer').

  • perk from Late Middle English:

    The origin of perk in to perk up, ‘to become more lively, cheerful, or interesting’, is not wholly clear, though it may be related to perch, as ‘perk’ is an early spelling of ‘perch’. A perk meaning a benefit to which you are entitled because of your job is a shortening of perquisite (Late Middle English), from medieval Latin perquisitum ‘acquisition’. It is found from the early 19th century. People began to perk coffee in a percolator (mid 19th century) around 1920. This is from percolate (early 17th century), which is based on Latin percolare ‘to strain through’.

Definition of percolate in US English:

percolate

verbˈpərkəˌleɪtˈpərkəˌlāt
  • 1no object, with adverbial of direction (of a liquid or gas) filter gradually through a porous surface or substance.

    (液体,气体)渗透,渗漏;渗滤,过滤

    the water percolating through the soil may leach out minerals

    经土壤过滤的水会滤掉矿物质。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Variable preservation suggests that some of the pollen may have been redeposited, possibly by water percolating through layers during summer melting.
    • But the Wekiva watershed - and its springshed, the area where surface water percolates into the aquifer and recharges the springs - is hardly pristine.
    • Runoff from steep ice-cliffs, or through subglacial flow driven by water percolating through pores or fractures, will convert a high fraction of melting into ablation.
    • To this day, the web of living things filters our water as it percolates through soil.
    • You also have a natural filtration process as the water will percolate down through the ground and the ground will filter the water naturally.
    • The hematite could have formed from iron-rich materials in the original layers of sediment, or it could have been deposited from iron-rich water percolating through the sediments.
    • The sand in the Marietta preserve overlies an ancient soil surface so hard and dense that water cannot percolate through it.
    • It's a process of alteration of this ash as the water percolates through.
    • He recently dug a trench that revealed high levels of magnesium and sulfur, suggesting water once percolated through the soil and evaporated leaving salts.
    • Its summer melt area is increasing: fresh water's percolating down to the base of the glaciers and lubricating the base and its ice shelves are becoming unstable.
    • Over time, the saved water percolated upward through capillary action toward plants' thirsty roots.
    • Water then percolates into the cracks, and the cycle repeats itself.
    • With water percolating upwards hundreds of feet from its leaks it has created wetlands and damp areas in the upstate Ulster and Orange counties that endure even in the region's worst drought.
    • Water will percolate down through the soil/trash mixture and collect in the bottom.
    • As an added precaution, I also constructed plastic-lined and rock-filled drainage ditches on the surface to prevent water from percolating down from the surface.
    • Water would naturally percolate through the rocks, and this would speed up the cooling of the pluton.
    • So those could be living down the cracks underneath the surface but the gasses will still percolate upwards.
    • The rover recently examined a rock named ‘Wishstone,’ which contains significant deposits of phosphorous that may have been left behind from water percolating up through the Martian surface.
    • These deposits represent enrichments of ore minerals caused by surface waters that percolate downwards through an existing sulphide-rich orebody.
    • The only vehicle to get air into soil is water, which percolates through the soil profile, displacing carbon dioxide and pulling air into the vacuum.
    Synonyms
    filter, drain, drip, ooze, seep, trickle, dribble, strain, leak, leach
    1. 1.1 (of information or an idea or feeling) spread gradually through an area or group of people.
      〈喻〉(信息、思想或感情)扩散,弥漫
      this issue has percolated into the public consciousness
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Isn't it true there is no freedom of the press, without which good ideas do not percolate well?
      • The vast corpus of religious literature in regional languages which has not been adequately studied can provide interesting insights into how religious ideas percolated into different strata of society.
      • Inevitably ideas percolate from one religion to another.
      • I hope to visit some of these ideas that are now percolating with regard to the worship experiences of today.
      • They did badly, in part, because much of this growth did not percolate into the rural areas.
      Synonyms
      spread, be disseminated, filter, pass, go
  • 2no object (of coffee) be prepared in a percolator.

    (咖啡)(在渗滤式咖啡壶中)滤煮

    he put some coffee on to percolate

    他把一些咖啡放到咖啡壶里滤煮。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Then we learnt how coffee was harvested, roasted, percolated, espressed and consumed.
    • In the not too distant future this will be estate agents’ recommended background music while the bread bakes and the coffee percolates.
    • The waiter duly brought the coffee which had obviously been percolating away for about six months, freshly-brewed being a relative term.
    • Even today I can still recall the aroma of bacon cooking and coffee percolating on the woodstove while my mother started breakfast.
    • I looked over at the coffee pot, which had been done percolating for a good fifteen minutes.
    • Around the world java percolates and teabags simmer in millions of homes each morning.
    • The kitchen smelled of cookies or whatever my Aunt Renee was finishing up for our desserts, and fresh coffee percolating.
    Synonyms
    brew
    1. 2.1with object Prepare (coffee) in a percolator.
      (咖啡)(在渗滤式咖啡壶中)滤煮
      it will have to be instant coffee—there's no time to percolate any
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A mango sorbet served with a very fruity Sauternes closes the dinner, and we retire to the lounge in various degrees of inebriation, drinking beautifully roasted and percolated coffee, while the chefs pack up in the kitchen.
      • He paused as he sniffed the air and glanced over at the coffee pot percolating java on the counter.
      • A coffee percolating machine was bubbling in the corner, making the room smell welcoming.
      • This, of course, is the sound of indie films, sometimes as if from the bottom of a well, rarely the crisp, percolating coffee and microwave beep of a Hollywood kitchen.
      • Fortunately, percolated coffee came with milk.
      • It promises to produce everything from the waft of freshly baked chocolate cookies to percolating coffee over a personal computer.
    2. 2.2US Be or become full of lively activity or excitement.
      〈喻,美〉变得有劲;显得活跃,非常兴奋
      the night was percolating with an expectant energy

      那个夜晚因充满期待而令人兴奋。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Despite the fact that tourism countrywide was down as much as 50 percent, the Khumbu still percolated with activity.
      • Mars certainly has your brain percolating with wild ideas and far-fetched fancies, but isn't it weird how nobody wants to know about anything out of the ordinary right now?
      • The reception area percolates with noise from clients and children as most of them cool off on the gracious leather furniture that flanks the big-screen TV.
      • Thanks to new arts complexes sprouting like mushrooms across the map, the global dance village percolates with activity.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin percolat- ‘strained through’, from the verb percolare, from per- ‘through’ + colare ‘to strain’ (from colum ‘strainer’).

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