Topic: DRINK
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| Date: | 1600-1700 |
| Language: | Latin |
| Origin: | , past participle of percolare 'to put through a sieve' |
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per‧co‧late
1 [intransitive] if an idea, feeling, or piece of information percolates through a group, it gradually spreads These ideas were slow to percolate.
These ideas were slow to percolate.2 [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] if liquid, light, or air percolates somewhere, it passes slowly through a material that has very small holes in it
3 [intransitive and transitive] also perkDFD if coffee percolates, or if you percolate it, you make it in a special pot in which hot water goes up through a tube and then passes down through crushed coffee beans
—percolation noun [uncountable and countable]
noun [uncountable and countable]