percolate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.

   “Fluidextracts are liquid alcoholic preparations of uniform and definite strength, made by percolating drugs with menstrua, and concentrating a portion of the percolate […]”

2. fiil To drain or seep through a porous substance.

   “Water percolates through sand.”

3. fiil To make (coffee) in a percolator.

   “I'll percolate some coffee.”

4. fiil (of coffee) to be prepared by percolation; (of a coffee pot) to brew coffee in this way.
5. fiil To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.

   “Reports on the pitiful state of many prisons have finally percolated through to the Home Office, which has promised to look into the situation.”

6. isim A liquid that has been percolated.

   “Fluidextracts are liquid alcoholic preparations of uniform and definite strength, made by percolating drugs with menstrua, and concentrating a portion of the percolate […]”