单词 | percolation |
释义 | percolation (once / 48046 pages) n Percolation is the process of a liquid slowly passing through a filter. It's how coffee is usually made. Percolation comes from the Latin word percolare, which means "to strain through." Percolation happens when liquid is strained through a filter, like when someone makes coffee. Drinking coffee can make you feel perky! Perky comes from the word percolate, too, describing something that bubbles over. Percolation (a noun) is what happens when anything percolates. It’s usually coffee, but chemists use percolation for all kinds of experiments. WORD FAMILYpercolation: percolations+/percolate: percolated, percolates, percolating, percolation, percolator/percolator: percolators USAGE EXAMPLESThe city also needs to haul off wastewater from an overflowing percolation pond, which has been intermittently leaking into the same mangroves since April 7. Washington Times(Apr 30, 2016) "Trees are stressing now. They need deeper percolation." Los Angeles Times(Oct 03, 2015) Testing the rice before and after cooking showed that coffee-pot percolation removed about half the arsenic, and that the lab apparatus removed around 60–70%. Nature(Jul 21, 2015) 1n the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium the percolation of rainwater through the soil Syn|Hyper infiltration filtration the process whereby fluids pass through a filter or a filtering medium 2n the filtration of a liquid for extraction or purification Hyper filtration the act of changing a fluid by passing it through a filter 3n the act of making coffee in a percolator Hyper cookery, cooking, preparation the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。