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percolate

ˈpərkəˌleɪt
WordNet
  1. (v) percolate
    gain or regain energy "I picked up after a nap"
  2. (v) percolate
    pass through "Water permeates sand easily"
  3. (v) percolate
    cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent
  4. (v) percolate
    prepare in a percolator "percolate coffee"
  5. (v) percolate
    spread gradually "Light percolated into our house in the morning"
  6. (v) percolate
    permeate or penetrate gradually "the fertilizer leached into the ground"
  7. (n) percolate
    the product of percolation
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Percolate
    To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.
  2. Percolate
    To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. percolate
    To strain through; cause to pass through small interstices, as a liquor; filter: literally and figuratively.
  2. percolate
    To pass through small interstices, as a liquor; filter: as, water percolates through a porous stone.
  3. (n) percolate
    That which has percolated or passed through a filter or strainer; a filtered liquid.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Percolate
    pėr′kō-lāt to strain through pores or small openings, as a liquid: to filter
  2. (v.i) Percolate
    to pass or ooze through very small openings: to filter
  3. (n) Percolate
    a filtered liquid
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. percolatus, p. p. of percolare, to percolate; per, through + colare, to strain

Usage in the news

A percolation rate of 0.5 inch per hour and a soil layer of 4 feet or more are generally recommended. aggman.com

Pots of coffee percolated, forgotten, in the background. lincolnnewsmessenger.com

Shin-Soo Choo is trying not to listen to the trade rumors that have started percolating around him in the past few weeks. cleveland.com

Interesting news percolating in Seattle's Bicycle Community. blog.seattlepi.com

Q&A: Cajmere On His Roots, The Differences Between House And Rave Audiences, And Tweaking "Percolator". villagevoice.com

The social TV space has been percolating for the past year or two, and its first big merger is here: startup GetGlue has been acquired by lesser-known Viggle. thepittsburghchannel.com

Water percolates up Texas Legislature's agenda . seattlepi.com

Many of them were on-boarded in the past six months, and they're paying up to $10,000 per month to use Percolate. sfgate.com

Over the past year, Percolate has been able to run on its own revenue and turn a small profit. sfgate.com

It's believed that antibiotics, which kill harmful infection-causing bacteria , also weaken the beneficial, healthy bacteria percolating in the colon. grz.com

After a lull of nearly two years, things are percolating again. naplesnews.com

If the phrase "kill screen" makes your blood percolate, then Insert Coin(s) is probably the place for you. latimes.com

Teeth Percolator Meme Meme is the New Riddim EP Sound Pellegrino. prb.com

What's Percolating in LOMA . delawaretoday.com

The mom in me adjusted to the controversies percolating around Miley Cyrus. todaystmj4.com

Usage in scientific papers

The percolation transition is in the standard short-range correlated percolation universality class.
Susceptibility and Percolation in 2D Random Field Ising Magnets

In order to test further the universality class of the percolation transition studied here, we have also calculated the order parameter of the percolation, the probability of belonging to the up-spin spanning cluster P∞ .
Susceptibility and Percolation in 2D Random Field Ising Magnets

The most interesting feature of the phenomenon of percolation in the context of our present discussion is that unlike thermal transition, the geometric percolation transition is free from critical slowing down.
An Introduction to Monte Carlo Simulation of Statistical physics Problem

The spectrum of random-cluster models extends to percolation (and beyond), and one sees thus that percolative techniques have direct application to Ising and Potts models.
Rigidity of the interface for percolation and random-cluster models

It differs from ordinary isotropic percolation by the additional constraint that activity is restricted to percolate along a distinguished direction in space.
Multifractal current distribution in random diode networks

Usage in literature

It took fully a minute for Marty's announcement to really percolate to his cousin's understanding. "The Mission of Janice Day" by Helen Beecher Long

The financial world is percolated with it. "The Map of Life" by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Dig a hole near the source of supply so that the water may percolate through the soil before being used. "Manual of Military Training" by James A. Moss

Fragrant coffee-steam hung over the glass percolator, but even this steam was as a brick wall to his probing touch. "The Day Time Stopped Moving" by Bradner Buckner

It may percolate through the chinks of the masonry. "A Royal Prisoner" by Pierre Souvestre

The sand arrests any solid matter in the water as it percolates to the gravel and drains below. "How it Works" by Archibald Williams

This coffee may be prepared in the Percolator, following the directions given in the foregoing. "Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners" by Elizabeth O. Hiller

Then, somewhere in the back of my mind a glimmering of an idea began percolating. "Robots of the World! Arise!" by Mari Wolf

As water percolates out through the hole, the vessel is replenished with more of the warm fluid. "Our Southern Highlanders" by Horace Kephart

Until intellect percolates the soil, the soil will not part with its hidden hoards. "The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864" by Various

Usage in poetry
Has some rough element of horrid clay
That spoils the earth like lava beds, they say,
Come sliding down, as avalanches do,
And thy fair bosom percolated through?
Or some apothecary's compound vile
Polluted thee so many a murky mile?