Percolate vs Filtering - What's the difference?
percolate | filtering |
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.
Something that passes through a filter.
* 1819 , Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia
* 2006 , Christopher Rush, To Travel Hopefully (page 146)
As verbs the difference between percolate and filtering
is that percolate is to pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter while filtering is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between percolate and filtering
is that percolate is a liquid that has been percolated while filtering is something that passes through a filter.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.
filtering
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- the filterings from the subsoils
- Waking up in Langogne in a dim dawn, I felt in a strange sort of way more at home than I'd been for a long time in my own sadly altered version of home, even a year on from her death – especially in the first filterings of daylight
