Marinate vs Percolate - What's the difference?
marinate | percolate |
To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.
To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
To drain or seep through a porous substance.
To make (coffee) in a percolator.
(figuratively) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.
As verbs the difference between marinate and percolate
is that marinate is to allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking while percolate is to pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.As a noun percolate is
(rare) a liquid that has been percolated.marinate
English
Verb
- You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first.
Anagrams
* ----percolate
English
Verb
- Water percolates through sand.
- I'll percolate some coffee.
- Reports on the pitiful state of many prisons have finally percolated through to the Home Office, which has promised to look into the situation.
- Through media reports it percolated to the surface that the police investigation was profoundly flawed.