percolate

From Latin percōlātus, past participle of percōlō (“I filter”), itself, from per (“through”) + cōlō (“I strain”) (from cōlum (“a strainer”), of unknown origin).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːkəleɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɝkəleɪt/, (nonstandard) /ˈpɝkjəleɪt/

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percolate (third-person singular simple present percolates, present participle percolating, simple past and past participle percolated)

1. (transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
   • 1926, Joseph Price Remington, Ernest Fullerton Cook, Charles Herbert La Wall, Remington's Practice of Pharmacy:

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

2. (intransitive) To drain or seep through a porous substance.

   Water percolates through sand.

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

   I'll percolate some coffee.

   • 2005, Mark F. Sohn, Appalachian Home Cooking, page 36:

     Boiled, percolated, pressed, or filtered, black coffee ranges from a light tea-like drink to deep black brew.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) 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.

   Through media reports it percolated to the surface that the police investigation was profoundly flawed.

   • 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A C McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:

     […] so that quite a perceptible interval of time elapsed before the true dimensions of the affront to his dignity commenced to percolate into the befogged and pain-racked convolutions of his brain.

   • 2011, Jaroslav Pokorny, Vaclav Repa, Karel Richta, Wita Wojtkowski, Henry Linger, Chris Barry, Michael Lang, Information Systems Development: Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 88:

     Some are prepared to pay for placement; others use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) hoping their result percolates up the organic SERP.

   • 2020 November 13, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Benee’s ‘Hey u x’ illustrates the upside of TikTok-dominated pop”, in Financial Times‎:

     The moves were a TikTokky blend of semaphore and street dance, busy with content. The teen, whose name is Zoi Lerma, has a large following on the network and her dance percolated around the world, with other celebrated TikTokkers adding their own versions.

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percolate (plural percolates)

1. (rare) A liquid that has been percolated.
   • 1926, Joseph Price Remington, Ernest Fullerton Cook, Charles Herbert La Wall, Remington's Practice of Pharmacy:

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

• prelocate

percolate

1. inflection of percolare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

percolate f pl

1. feminine plural of percolato

percōlāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of percōlō

percolate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of percolar combined with te