Percolate
verb
To filter through a porous surface or substance.
The water slowly percolated through the soil
Often appears as...
- water percolated
- percolated through the soil
verb
To slowly spread through something or to be slowly passed on.
The information gradually percolated through the organization
Often appears as...
- information percolated
- percolated through the organization
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Formal
verb
To prepare coffee in a percolator.
He percolated the coffee before serving it
Often appears as...
- percolated coffee
- percolated before serving
verb
To filter through a porous surface or substance.
The water slowly percolated through the soil
Often appears as...
- water percolated
- percolated through the soil
verb
To slowly spread through something or to be slowly passed on.
The information gradually percolated through the organization
Often appears as...
- information percolated
- percolated through the organization
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To prepare coffee in a percolator.
He percolated the coffee before serving it
Often appears as...
- percolated coffee
- percolated before serving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Processes
Used to describe how liquids move through natural materials.
The rain percolated into the dry ground.
Pro Tip 2/3Slow Movement
Emphasizes the gradual, often slow pace of filtering.
The dye percolated through the fabric slowly.
Pro Tip 3/3Visibility
The process might not be visible unless the surface is transparent.
Watching the honey percolate through the strainer was mesmerizing.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Processes
Used to describe how liquids move through natural materials.
The rain percolated into the dry ground.
Pro Tip 2/3Slow Movement
Emphasizes the gradual, often slow pace of filtering.
The dye percolated through the fabric slowly.
Pro Tip 3/3Visibility
The process might not be visible unless the surface is transparent.
Watching the honey percolate through the strainer was mesmerizing.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Processes
Used to describe how liquids move through natural materials.
The rain percolated into the dry ground.
Pro Tip 2/3Slow Movement
Emphasizes the gradual, often slow pace of filtering.
The dye percolated through the fabric slowly.
Pro Tip 3/3Visibility
The process might not be visible unless the surface is transparent.
Watching the honey percolate through the strainer was mesmerizing.
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One more reason to get a...
and wastes from inside the brain make their way out to the CSF, which gets dumped, along with the waste, into the blood. So in that way, it sounds a lot like the lymphatic system, doesn't it? But what's interesting is that the fluid and the waste from inside the brain, they don't just percolate their way randomly
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Jamie C. Beard: The...
It creates a reservoir under the surface. Think of it as a pot where you boil your water underground, right? You send a fluid down, it percolates through the fractures. It comes back up really hot, and we use it for all sorts of interesting and important things like heating buildings directly.
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Edward Burtynsky:...
Walk around for four months with three wishes, and all the ideas will start to percolate up. I think everybody should do it -- think that you've got three wishes. And what would you do? It's actually a great exercise to really drill down to the things that you feel are important,
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The beauty of data...
and understand how it works and how the ideas percolate down from government into society and culture, into families, into individuals, into their beliefs and back around again in a cycle. What I love about this image is it's made up of concepts, it explores our worldviews
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In Defense of the...
have this distorted view of how a decent loving relationship must start and then people do this thing okay I have didn't Europe you made such an important point there because if we give the view of love and romance that we want to be true and that's what percolates then we
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The beauty of data...
how the ideas percolate down from government into society and culture into families into individuals instead beliefs and background again in a cycle what I love about this image is it's it's made up of concepts it explores our worldviews and it helps us it helps me anyway
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50 Years Ago, This Was a...
primarily it's cedar we took out a great portion of it here on the ranch we were discovered with it we had no grass when we took out the cedar and spread native grass seeds and it began to grow rainfall then percolated into the earth
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The unforeseen...
If you're lucky enough to decide the pace that you want to travel through life, it's a privilege. Use it. You might decide that you need both to speed up and to create slow time to reflect, to percolate
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The most colorful...
Which raises the in the next 100 million years, silica-rich water will percolate through the nooks and crannies of some of the discarded artifacts of human civilization.
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Training Critical...
distance the basis for that syllabus would not just be resident in academic in the anatomy it would have to percolate to the heart
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One more reason to get a...
and wastes from inside the brain make their way out to the CSF, which gets dumped, along with the waste, into the blood. So in that way, it sounds a lot like the lymphatic system, doesn't it? But what's interesting is that the fluid and the waste from inside the brain, they don't just percolate their way randomly
Video examples
Jamie C. Beard: The...
It creates a reservoir under the surface. Think of it as a pot where you boil your water underground, right? You send a fluid down, it percolates through the fractures. It comes back up really hot, and we use it for all sorts of interesting and important things like heating buildings directly.
Video examples
Edward Burtynsky:...
Walk around for four months with three wishes, and all the ideas will start to percolate up. I think everybody should do it -- think that you've got three wishes. And what would you do? It's actually a great exercise to really drill down to the things that you feel are important,
Video examples
The beauty of data...
and understand how it works and how the ideas percolate down from government into society and culture, into families, into individuals, into their beliefs and back around again in a cycle. What I love about this image is it's made up of concepts, it explores our worldviews
Video examples
In Defense of the...
have this distorted view of how a decent loving relationship must start and then people do this thing okay I have didn't Europe you made such an important point there because if we give the view of love and romance that we want to be true and that's what percolates then we
Video examples
The beauty of data...
how the ideas percolate down from government into society and culture into families into individuals instead beliefs and background again in a cycle what I love about this image is it's it's made up of concepts it explores our worldviews and it helps us it helps me anyway
Video examples
50 Years Ago, This Was a...
primarily it's cedar we took out a great portion of it here on the ranch we were discovered with it we had no grass when we took out the cedar and spread native grass seeds and it began to grow rainfall then percolated into the earth
Video examples
The unforeseen...
If you're lucky enough to decide the pace that you want to travel through life, it's a privilege. Use it. You might decide that you need both to speed up and to create slow time to reflect, to percolate
Video examples
The most colorful...
Which raises the in the next 100 million years, silica-rich water will percolate through the nooks and crannies of some of the discarded artifacts of human civilization.
Video examples
Training Critical...
distance the basis for that syllabus would not just be resident in academic in the anatomy it would have to percolate to the heart
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Timothy Morton
English Philosopher
Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the infinite regress of a brain determining whether a brain is healthy, we have the infinite regress of the idea 'All concepts are brain percolations' being itself a brain percolation, on its own terms.
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Matthew Walker
English Scientist
I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.
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Richard Russo
American Novelist
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
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Vernor Vinge
American Writer
When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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Sharad Pawar
Indian Politician
The agriculture ministry has to see that their good research percolates down to the fields through the state agricultural departments and the 70-odd state agricultural universities.
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Nancy Pickard
American Novelist
I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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Bruce Vilanch
American Comedian
It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.
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Joy Mangano
American Inventor
I'll see somebody struggling with something, and it doesn't matter if it's ironing or mopping or traveling, my brain just starts to percolate.
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Andrew Lo
Economist
Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.
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Stacey Abrams
American Politician
I like to take information in and let it percolate.
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Timothy Morton
English Philosopher
Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the infinite regress of a brain determining whether a brain is healthy, we have the infinite regress of the idea 'All concepts are brain percolations' being itself a brain percolation, on its own terms.
Quote examples
Matthew Walker
English Scientist
I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.
Quote examples
Richard Russo
American Novelist
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
Quote examples
Vernor Vinge
American Writer
When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
Quote examples
Sharad Pawar
Indian Politician
The agriculture ministry has to see that their good research percolates down to the fields through the state agricultural departments and the 70-odd state agricultural universities.
Quote examples
Nancy Pickard
American Novelist
I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
Quote examples
Bruce Vilanch
American Comedian
It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.
Quote examples
Joy Mangano
American Inventor
I'll see somebody struggling with something, and it doesn't matter if it's ironing or mopping or traveling, my brain just starts to percolate.
Quote examples
Andrew Lo
Economist
Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.
Quote examples
Stacey Abrams
American Politician
I like to take information in and let it percolate.
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