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percolate
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Percolate is a clubbing brand based in London, England . Founded in 2012, it is best known for Electronic Music events, specifically House , Disco and Techno . Founded by Fred Letts and Ed Lo Bianco, and now run by Letts and Simon Denby, Percolate is famously ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB down ▪ The cold, bottom water that percolates down into the cracks in the ocean crust carries its own complement of chemicals. through ▪ The stream bed below is normally dry as the water percolates through at a lower ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, a back-formation from percolation , or else from Latin percolatus , past participle of percolare "to strain through." Figurative sense by 1670s. Related: Percolated ; percolating .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context rare English) A liquid that has been percolated. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter. 2 (context intransitive English) To drain or seep through a porous substance. 3 (context transitive English) ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Percolate \Per"co*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Percolated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Percolating .] [L. percolatus, p. p. of percolare to percolate; per through + colare to strain.] To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. --Sir ...
WordNet
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n. the product of percolation v. permeate or penetrate gradually; "the fertilizer leached into the ground" [syn: leach ] spread gradually; "Light percolated into our house in the morning" prepare in a percolator; "percolate coffee" cause (a solvent) to ...
Usage examples of percolate.
Nor did anyone really anticipate how swiftly intellectual discourse would percolate to a national audience through the mass media.
The fact that Lawes and Gilbert in England find that, when land contains considerable nitric acid, the water which percolates through the soil to the underdrains beneath, contains more nitrate of lime when the land is not occupied by a crop, than when the roots of growing plants fill the soil, is deemed positive proof that summer-fallowing is a wasteful practice.
The narrowband search would only hold meaning after it had percolated for the full five minutes, but the key was the transient display, which was empty.
The offerings had specific religious significance, and showed how far love for Caesar percolated through every stratum of the city.
First they took in Fenner, who had just had time after the brief telephone call to pull on pyjama trousers, start the coffee percolating, open shutters and curtains.
The ideal solution, of course, would be to float the dump on top of a pool of alkahest, which would dissolve any evil mat percolated through to it.
Before dinner the slat and chink of sky light softly percolating through the boned grey dome, the vagrant hemispheres spored with blue-egged nuclei coagulating, ramifying, in the one basket lobsters, in the other the germination of a world antiseptically personal and absolute.
Water poured out of the sagging guttering, diluting the slow-moving sludge that percolated round the base of the walls.
He catches the wall to steady himself and listens for heavy nursy footsteps on the stairs, but the television blares coffee percolating music, and after a moment he realizes they aren't going to come.
She jerked the coffee pot from under the drip pan, the still percolating coffee hissing as it trickled onto the hotplate.
As the coffee began to percolate, it occurred to her how easy it would be to do just that, drop acid, ketamine, PCP, Ecstacy, rat poison, kerosene or a dead cat into the cistern.
By the time the hot money percolated back to far-flung banks the source of it couldn’.
Where Curious Yellow got started we do not know, but once it was in the wild, it spread like an ideal gas, percolating through the network until it was everywhere.
The coco-palm in particular luxuriates in that stern solum, striking down his roots to the brackish, percolated water, and bearing his green head in the wind with every evidence of health and pleasure.
And so issues that are important to book-reading intellectuals, such as global environmental collapse, eventually percolate through the porous buffer of mass culture and show up as ancient Hindu ruins in Orlando.