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单词 percolate
释义 per·co·late
I. \ˈpərkəˌlāt, ˈpə̄k-, ˈpəik-, chiefly in substand speech -kyə-; usu -ād.+V\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Latin percolatus, past participle of percolare, from per- through + colare to filter, strain, sieve — more at per-, colander
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to cause (a liquid) to pass through a permeable substance : filter, strain
 b.
  (1) : to cause a liquid to pass through (as coffee) in order to extract the essence
  (2) : to prepare (coffee) by percolation
 c. : to ooze or drain slowly through (a porous medium)
2. : to be diffused through : penetrate
 < events … percolated the censorships and reached the cables — F.L.Paxson >
intransitive verb
1. : to ooze or trickle through a permeable substance : seep
 < rainwaters … percolate between the loose sands and gravels that fill the buried valley — R.E.Janssen >
2.
 a. : to undergo percolation
  < waited for the coffee to percolate — Willa Cather >
 b. : to be or become lively or effervescent : show animation
  < once his voice is percolating to his satisfaction — Joseph Wechsberg >
  < keep college football spirit percolating — F.J.Taylor >
3. : to become diffused : spread gradually
 < allow the sunlight to percolate into our rooms — Norman Douglas >
 < soldiers and political police had already percolated into Bulgaria — Sir Winston Churchill >
II. \“; -_lə̇t, usu -ə̇d.+V\ noun
(-s)
: a product of percolation
 < no increase in nitrite in the soil percolateBiological Abstracts >
III. intransitive verb
: simmer 2a
 < the feud had been percolating for a long time >
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