Percolate

Definitions: Percolate

Percolate

Noun

1. The product of percolation.

Verb

1. Permeate; penetrate gradually; of liquids.

2. Spread gradually: "Light percolated into our house in the morning".

3. Prepare in a percolator, of coffee.

4. Cause to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent, as of solvents.

5. Pass through; "Water permeates sand easily".

6. Be diffused thoroughly; "Sunlight percolated the entire house".

7. Gain or regain energy.

Date "percolate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)

Synonyms: Percolate

Synonyms: filter (v), gain vigor (v), leach (v), perk (v), perk up (v), permeate (v), pick up (v), sink in (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Egress	Exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; (water in motion); effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape.
River	Verb: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out. (egress).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Percolate

English words defined with "percolate": leach ♦ Percolated, Percolating ♦ Sicker ♦ Underdrain. (references)

Specialty definitions using "percolate": PERCOLATOR OPERATOR ♦ weep holes. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Percolate anything you wan fi call it (Get Busy; performing artist: SEAN PAUL)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Percolate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 85.19% of the time. "Percolate" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	85.19%	23	72,767
Lexical Verb (base form)	11.11%	3	202,518
Noun (singular)	3.7%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	27	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "percolate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përshkoj (cover, do, penetrate, permeate, pervade, traverse, voyage), kulloj (clarify, decant, defecate, drain, exude, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, Leach, seep, strain, stream), kalon përmes, hapet, filtroj (decant, filter, filtrate, strain), del (peer, prove, publish, push out, put out, rise, work off). (various references)

Arabic		‏نفذ إلى (get in), ‏نفذ (act, activate, be executed, carry into effect, carry out, come true, commit, computerize, do, effect, effectuate, enforce, execute, fill, fulfil, fulfill, honor, honour, implement, invoke, penetrate, perform, permeate, petering, pierce, practise, proceed, pursue, put into effect, realize, transfix, traverse), ‏قطر (country, distil, dribble, drip, drop, land, rain, region, territory, tow, towing, trail, trickle, tug), ‏تقطر (distil, drip, dripping, trickle), ‏تسلل (crept, infiltrate, infiltration, insinuate, nose, penetrate, permeation, plant, skulk, sneak, spy out, steal in, steal out, stealth), ‏ترشح (candidate, elect, filter, nominate, oozing, present, put in, run, run for office, stand, transpire), ‏إنتشر (be widespread, catch on, circulate, deploy, diffuse, emit, extend, fall out, fan, flow, mushroom, outspread, permeate, pervade, prevail, propagate, radiate, reproduce, resound, run, send forth, suffuse, swarm, transpire, unfold, unroll), ‏رشح (basing, distil, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, leach, leak, leakage, lixiviate, nominate, ooze, ooze away, secrete, seep, still, sweat, transpiration, transpire, trickle). (various references)

Bulgarian		филтрирам (filter, filtrate, infiltrate, sieve, strain), процеждам се (ooze, sift), прониквам (come through, penetrate, perforate, pervade, seep, sift, soak, strike, sweep in, work in), прецеждам се (leak), прецеждам (filter), правя кафе с перколатор. (various references)

Chinese		过滤 (Filtered, Filtering, Filtrated, Filtrating, leach, Percolated, Percolating, SIFT, Sifted, sifting). (various references)

Czech		prosakovat (infiltrate, leak, ooze), procedit. (various references)

Farsi		نفوذکردن (Infiltrate, Leak, Permeate, Pervade, Transpire), تراوش کردن (Bilge, Exude, Infiltrate, Leak, Ooze, Secrete, Seep), صاف کردن (Clear, Even, Face, Fine, Hone, Pave, Perk, Plane, Serene, Sleek, Smooth, Strain, Unwrap, Urbanize), ردشدن (Blowover, Pass). (various references)

French		passer par, pénétrer (penetrate, perforate, permeate), se répandre (permeate), se filtrer, filtrer (penetrate), faire dans une cafetière électrique. (various references)

German		durchsickern (infiltrate, leak out, leak through, seep through, seepage, to trickle through, trickle through, work through). (various references)

Greek		φιλτράρω (filter, infiltrate, screen out), διυλίζω (distil, distill, filter, filtrate, refine), διασταλάζω. (various references)

Hebrew		לחלחל (ooze, permeate, seep, seepage), לס� ן (filter, filtrate, sieve, sift, strain, strain off, winnow), תס� ין (filtrate). (various references)

Hungarian		átszivárog (infiltrate, to percolate, to seep, to silt, to steal through, to strain), átszûrõdik. (various references)

Italian		filtrare (filter, filtrate, ooze, seep, sink, strain). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"み出る (to exude, to ooze, to percolate, to soak through), 滲み出る (to exude, to ooze, to percolate, to soak through). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しみでる (to exude, to ooze, to percolate, to soak through). (various references)

Korean		관류하십시�". (various references)

Manx		sheeley (clarify, clear, discharge, distil, drain, draw, dribble, drip, extract, filter, flow, gravitate, gutter, insemination, instil, Julia, leach, ooze, refine, run, seep, soil, strain, trickle, weep). (various references)

Pig Latin		ercolatepay

Portuguese		que percebe, infiltrar-se (infiltrate, oozy, seep), filtrar-se (sift), filtrar (depurate, filter, fin, lead, purify), coar-se através de, coar (flow, Leach, pour in, strain). (various references)

Romanian		pãtrunde (come in, filter, interpenetrate, penetrate, perceive, perforate, permeate, pervade, see into, sink, touch, understand), strecura (edge, filter, fly, glissade, insinuate, interject, intermingle, interpose, slink, slip, squeeze), se filtra (filtrate, perk, strain), filtra (defecate, filter, Leach). (various references)

Russian		фильтровать (filter, filtrate, strain), просачиваться (infiltrate, infiltrating, leak, leaked, seep, silt through, transpire), процедить (filter, strain), перколировать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		procediti (decant, filter, strain), prečistiti (purify, rectify, refine). (various references)

Spanish		filtrar (filter, filtrate, Leach, leak, strain), colar (pass, pour, strain). (various references)

Swedish		filtrera (filter, filtrate, Leach). (various references)

Turkish		süzmek (bolt, clarify, contemplate, drain, eye, filter, filtrate, infiltrate, Leach, measure, settle, strain), süzülmek (be filtered, distil, distill, drain, filter, float, flow, glide, plane, ride, seep, soar, volplane), sızmak (creep, effuse, emanate, escape, exude, filter out, infiltrate, leak, leak out, ooze, ooze out, permeate, run, run out, seep, transpire, transude, trickle, weep), sızdırmak (chisel, drag out, drip, effuse, exude, leak, leak out, ooze, suck, take in, transpire, wheedle smth. out of smb., work), filtreden geçirmek (filtrate). (various references)

Ukranian		просочуватися (filter, funnel, infiltrate, leak, leak in, leak out, ooze, seep, soak, soak through, transpire), проціджувати. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "percolate": percolated, percolates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Percolate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aerolite, ergolite, Parvoleta, percalate, Percula, perculate, periolate, porcelite, preculate, purolite. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "percolate" (pronounced per"kulā't)
5	-k u l ā' t	escalate.
4	-u l ā' t	accumulate, adulate, annihilate, articulate, assimilate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, congratulate, copulate, correlate, depopulate, distillate, emulate, encapsulate, extrapolate, flagellate, formulate, gastrulate, inoculate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, manipulate, miscalculate, mutilate, oscillate, overregulate, populate, postulate, recalculate, recapitulate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate, ventilate.
3	-l ā' t	angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-o-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: corelate, pectoral, praelect, relocate.
	-2 letters: caltrop, capelet, elector, electro, locater, ocreate, operate, parolee, percale, petrale, pleater, plectra, polecat, prelate, prelect, prolate, replace, replate, treacle.
	-3 letters: areole, caplet, capote, captor, carpel, carpet, cartel, cartop, cerate, cereal, claret, coaler, coatee, coater, colter, copter, create, creole, ecarte, elater, eloper, leaper, lector, locate, ocreae, oleate, oracle, palter.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-o-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: coleoptera, operculate, percolated, percolates.
	+2 letters: coleopteran, copperplate, counterplea, operculated, perchlorate, plecopteran, projectable.
	+3 letters: cephalometry, coleopterans, copperplates, counterpleas, craftspeople, electroplate, inoperculate, perceptional, perchlorates, plecopterans, precentorial, preceptorial, prosecutable.
	+4 letters: cephalometric, complementary, convertaplane, convertiplane, cooperatively, counterplayer, deprecatorily, electroplated, electroplates, inoperculates, overspeculate, petrochemical, preadolescent, preceptorials, precollegiate, stereotypical.
	+5 letters: cephalometries, computerizable, conceptualizer, convertaplanes, convertiplanes, corporealities, counterexample, counterplayers, electroplating, electrotherapy, extracorporeal, hepatocellular, herpetological, hypermetabolic, overcapitalize, overcomplicate, overspeculated, overspeculates, percutaneously, petrochemicals, preadolescents, ultracompetent.
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