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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-306/
- Published: 2025-06-09T18:15:37.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-09T18:15:36.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

percolate (verb):

1a: to cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance (such as a powdered drug) especially for extracting a soluble constituent  
b: to prepare (coffee) in a percolator  
2: to be diffused through : penetrate

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/percolate?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Percolate comes from a Latin verb meaning "to put through a sieve". Something that percolates filters through something else, just as small particles pass through a sieve. Water is drawn downward through the soil, and this percolation usually cleans the water. A slow rain is ideal for percolating into the soil, since in a violent rainstorm most of it quickly runs off. For this reason, drip irrigation is the most effective and water-conserving form of irrigation. Percolation isn't always a physical process; awareness of an issue may percolate slowly into the minds of the public, just as French words may gradually percolate into English.

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