What is "percolate"

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.