percolate

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per·co·late /ˈpɜːkəleɪt $ ˈpɜːr-/ verb

1 [intransitiveI]SPREAD if an idea, feeling, or piece of information percolates through a group, it gradually spreads 〔观念、感觉或信息〕逐渐传开

percolate through/down

The message has begun to percolate through the organization.

那消息开始在整个机构中传播开来。

These ideas were slow to percolate.

这些观念流传得很慢。

2 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]GO if liquid, light, or air percolates somewhere, it passes slowly through a material that has very small holes in it 〔液体、光或空气〕渗透，滤出

percolate through/down/into

Rainwater percolates down through the rock.

雨水顺着岩石的裂缝渗下去。

3. [intransitiveI, transitiveT] (also perk)DFD if coffee percolates, or if you percolate it, you make it in a special pot in which hot water goes up through a tube and then passes down through crushed coffee beans 〔用咖啡渗滤壶〕滤煮

—percolation /ˌpɜːkəˈleɪʃən $ ˌpɜːr-/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

percolate• Whitewater, which for a season has dropped out of the headlines, continues to percolate beneath the surface.• Like most ideas that ultimately take hold in Washington, this one has been percolating for a long time.• She already has an idea percolating for her next novel.• As she grew up, a few of these technological marvels began to slowly percolate into the Dales.• Personnel changes have percolated right up to the boardroom.• Democratic principles would, of course, take time to percolate through a population accustomed to autocracy.• The stream bed below is normally dry as the water percolates through at a lower level.• Ideas from these right-wing "think tanks" eventually percolated through into policy decisions.• Demand for these skills has percolated throughout the curriculum.• Through a stroke of geologic good fortune, hydrothermal water percolates up through the landscape and feeds into the Colorado.

percolate through/down• Democratic principles would, of course, take time to percolate through a population accustomed to autocracy.• The stream bed below is normally dry as the water percolates through at a lower level.• Early hints of this fondness for the dramatic percolate through his journal.• The cold, bottom water that percolates down into the cracks in the ocean crust carries its own complement of chemicals.• Our emotions swim in a soup of hormones and peptides that percolate through our whole body.• Rainwater percolates through the caverns, like a big drip coffeemaker.• Benchmarking represented a period of enforced introspection beginning at the strategic level and percolating through the organization as the change process progressed.• Lakes may take in water from many miles away that has percolated through the soil or through aquifers over decades.

percolate through/down/into• Democratic principles would, of course, take time to percolate through a population accustomed to autocracy.• Early hints of this fondness for the dramatic percolate through his journal.• The cold, bottom water that percolates down into the cracks in the ocean crust carries its own complement of chemicals.• Our emotions swim in a soup of hormones and peptides that percolate through our whole body.• Rainwater percolates through the caverns, like a big drip coffeemaker.• As she grew up, a few of these technological marvels began to slowly percolate into the Dales.• Benchmarking represented a period of enforced introspection beginning at the strategic level and percolating through the organization as the change process progressed.• Lakes may take in water from many miles away that has percolated through the soil or through aquifers over decades.• Rainwater will percolate into the valley's underground water basin.

Origin percolate

(1600-1700) Latin past participle of percolare “to put through a sieve”

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