词汇 | percolate |
释义 | percolate verb uk /ˈpɜː.kəl.eɪt/ us /ˈpɝː.kəl.eɪt/ percolateverb (LIQUID)[ I ] If a liquid percolates, it moves slowly through a substance with very small holes in it: 渗透,渗漏,渗入 Sea water percolates down through the rocks.海水从岩石中间渗流过去。 [ I or T ] to make coffee using a machine in which hot water passes through crushed coffee beans into a container below(用渗滤式咖啡壶)滤煮(咖啡) Movement of liquids backsplash be dripping with somethingidiom brim brim over brim with something drip funnel leakage pour-over reinject reinjection respray ripple run a bathphrase spate stem swash swill swirl swirling You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Crossing and moving through Warm drinks percolateverb (INFORMATION)[ I ] to spread slowly: 扩散;弥漫 The news has begun to percolate through the staff.消息开始在员工中传开来。 Spreading and scattering all over the placeidiom bedaub bell bestrew billow dispersion disseminate distribution dotted around dredge dusting encroach on/upon something rambling scatteringly slap something on slather smear smudge smudgily sprinkle percolate | American Dictionarypercolate verb[ I ] us/ˈpɜr·kəˌleɪt/ (of a liquid) to move through a substance by going through very small spaces within it: Underground water had percolated through the soil to form puddles. Examples of percolatepercolate No organizational benefits appear to have percolated down to the members. However, there were many layers through which his messages percolated and were understood. On these days, the excess water is wasted as it percolates deep into the groundwater table or becomes runoff. He explained that the nominalization suffix nominalizes the syntactic category of a verb, and the role of the verb is percolated into its parent node. In the absence of a soil adsorptive capacity these are likely to be rapidly removed in percolating water. In this way, imbalance percolates up the tree, one level at a time, until it can be removed. Such features are never percolated up to the parent node of a rule. Second, fronted wh-words include a featural specification which percolates to the entire wh-phrase whereas non-fronted wh-words do not. Occasional evidence of this percolates through into the newspapers and, now and again, the law reports. Lakes may take in water from many miles away that has percolated through the soil or through aquifers over decades. Our definition suggests (but does not say) that all the categorial information of a conjunct percolates. Blood enters via the hepatic artery or portal vein, and percolates through the narrow sinusoidal channels before exiting through the central veins. Once activation has percolated through the network, a distributed pattern will be present at the output. Their interaction percolates subtly and gently through the term or substitution according to the direction chosen. In the second situation chemical is deposited on a solid surface or percolates to the surface of the ground. See all examples of percolate These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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