transcription, транскрипция: [ pɜ:(r)kəleɪt ]
( percolates, percolating, percolated)
1.
If an idea, feeling, or piece of information percolates through a group of people or a thing, it spreads slowly through the group or thing.
New fashions took a long time to percolate down.
...all of these thoughts percolated through my mind.
VERB : V prep / adv , V prep / adv
2.
When you percolate coffee or when coffee percolates , you prepare it in a percolator.
She percolated the coffee and put croissants in the oven to warm.
VERB : V n , also V
3.
To percolate somewhere means to pass slowly through something that has very small holes or gaps in it.
Rain water will only percolate through slowly.
VERB : V prep / adv