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Percolate vs Ooze - What's the difference?

percolate | ooze |

In context|intransitive|figuratively|lang=en terms the difference between percolate and ooze

is that percolate is (figuratively) to spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised while ooze is (figuratively) to give off a sense of (something).

As verbs the difference between percolate and ooze

is that percolate is to pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter while ooze is to be secreted or slowly leak.

As nouns the difference between percolate and ooze

is that percolate is (rare) a liquid that has been percolated while ooze is potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning or ooze can be soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water.

percolate

English

Verb

  • To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
  • To drain or seep through a porous substance.
    • Water percolates through sand.
  • To make (coffee) in a percolator.
    • I'll percolate some coffee.
  • (figuratively) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.
    • 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.

    Related terms

    * percolation * percolator

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A liquid that has been percolated.

    • ooze

    English

    Etymology 1

    * ()'' (etyl) . * ()'' (etyl) ''wosen'', from ''wose 'sap'; see above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning.
  • Secretion, humour.
  • A thick often unpleasant liquid; muck.

    • Verb

  • To be secreted or slowly leak.
  • * 1988 , David Drake, The Sea Hag , Baen Publishing Enterprises (2003), ISBN 0671654241, unnumbered page:
    • Pale slime oozed through all the surfaces; some of it dripped from the ceiling and burned Dennis as badly as the blazing sparks had done a moment before.
  • * 1994 , Madeleine May Kunin, Living a Political Life , Vintage Books (1995), ISBN 9780679740087, unnumbered page:
    • He was hard to understand because he spoke softly, and his Vermont accent was as thick as maple syrup oozing down a pile of pancakes.
  • * 2011 , Karen Mahoney, The Iron Witch , Flux (2011), ISBN 9780738725826, page 278:
    • Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.
  • (figuratively) To give off a sense of (something).
  • * 1989 , Robert R. McCammon, The Wolf's Hour , Open Road Integrated Media (2011), ISBN 9781453231548, unnumbered page:
    • "Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.
  • * 1999 , Tamsin Blanchard, Antonio Berardi: Sex and Sensibility , Watson-Guptill Publications (1999), ISBN 9780823012077, page 16:
    • There are no two ways about it: a Berardi dress oozes sex appeal from its very seams.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 21 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Newcastle had failed to penetrate a typically organised Stoke backline in the opening stages but, once Cabaye and then Cisse breached their defence, Newcastle oozed confidence and controlled the game with a swagger expected of a top-four team.}}

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) wose'', from (etyl) '''' 'mud, mire', from (etyl) . More at virus.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My son i' the ooze is bedded.
  • A piece of soft, wet, pliable turf.
  • The liquor of a tanning vat.
    • English terms with multiple etymologies