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Percolate

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Percolate meaning

To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter. | To drain or seep through a porous substance. | To make (coffee) in a percolator.

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Example sentences (18)

Everyone in Westminster was bored stiff with the phrase, which meant it was only just starting to percolate through to the electorate.

For example, the pavement in Shenzhen Bay Park’s wide shoreline path, the Coastal Leisure Belt, allows water to infiltrate slowly and then percolate through a deep bed of gravel underneath, which slows it even more.

Give it some time to percolate.

Now, during monsoon, water starts to percolate inside the already disturbed slope and overburden the soil, making it loose and if there is heavy rain for 3-4 days straight, the situation aggravates and landslides take place.

Further, she said because much of the lands that house apartments in and around Kingston and St Andrew are made up of hard landscapes – concretes and pavements – water is unable to percolate into the ground, increasing run-off.

Waltzing pianos and pizzicato strings percolate behind their usual prowling synths and garage rock sound.

Working as a hotel entertainment sales manager, DelliBovi also got a peek behind the curtain, learning what’s involved in getting celebrities from point A to point B. And soon a business idea started to percolate.

Chandrajit Banerjee, director general of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), told that the industry will also press the CM to ensure Ease of Doing Business benefits percolate down to the district level.

While world leaders prepare for war, real threats continually percolate.

Before dinner parties, she would light a cigar, percolate coffee, fill a glass with cognac and sprinkle it around the home.

Just as we don’t demand that our toddlers be self-reliant, Americans need to allow the reality of ourselves as dependent in our old age to percolate into our psyches and our nation’s social policies.

The rain is expected to percolate groundwater in Chennai.

That can be enough to effectively percolate energy up through the layers, and propel sand up into the winds.

The justices like to have issues percolate below so that they can benefit from the opinions of lower court judges.

You can also see these words and phrases start to percolate through statements coming from various members of Team Trump, on social media and in the press.

Lake Chad has no apparent outlet, but its waters percolate into the Soro and Bodélé depressions.

Libby (1965), p. 6. This exchange process brings mainC from the atmosphere into the surface waters of the ocean, but the mainC thus introduced takes a long time to percolate through the entire volume of the ocean.

Substrata of impermeable rock and stone can trap water and retain it in pockets, or on long faulting subsurface ridges or volcanic dikes water can collect and percolate to the surface.