Infiltrate vs Seepage - What's the difference?
infiltrate | seepage |
To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access.
* Addison
To cause a fluid to pass through a substance by filtration.
To send soldiers through gaps in the enemy line.
(of an intravenous needle) To move from a vein, remaining in the body.
As a verb infiltrate
is to surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access.As a noun seepage is
the process by which a liquid leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping.infiltrate
English
Verb
(infiltrat)- The water infiltrates through the porous rock.