percolate

vt.vi. 滤, 滤过, 渗开, (使)渗透, (使)渗滤 n. 滤过液, 渗出液 vt. 用渗滤壶煮(咖啡)

发音

UK /ˈpɜːkəleɪt/
US /ˈpɝkəleɪt/
US /ˈpɝkjəleɪt/
AU
其它 /ˈpɝkjəleɪt/

词形变化

percolates 复数 percolates percolated percolates 三单 percolating percolating 现在分词 percolated 过去式 percolated 过去分词

别名

perculate

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A liquid that has been percolated.

    罕用
v.
  1. 1.

    To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To drain or seep through a porous substance.

    不及物

    Water percolates through sand.

  3. 3.

    To make (coffee) in a percolator.

    及物

    I'll percolate some coffee.

  4. 4.

    (of coffee) to be prepared by percolation; (of a coffee pot) to brew coffee in this way.

    不及物
  5. 5.

    To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.

    比喻 不及物

    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.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

filtrate
动词

同义词 7

pickup filter perk leach permeate sink in perk up

上位词 10

spread recover filter penetrate dribble trickle diffuse recuperate spread out pass through

下位词 1

infiltrate

词源

Borrowed from Latin percōlātus, perfect passive participle of percōlō (“to filter”), itself, from per (“through”) + cōlō (“to strain”) (from cōlum (“a strainer”), of unknown origin); see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).

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