Meaning

2 senses
  1. A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds.

    Perkolator

    кофева́ркаkofevárka

    кавова́ркаkavovárka

    a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans

  2. A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Tom bought a percolator.

  2. Mary's buying a new percolator.

    Мері купує нову кавоварку. — deniko

    deMaria kauft eine neue Kaffeemaschine. — Melang

  3. The percolator is out of order.

    deDie Kaffeemaschine ist kaputt. — Zaghawa

  4. The percolator is on the blink.

    deDie Kaffeemaschine ist kaputt. — Zaghawa

  5. He has a very good percolator.

    deEr hat eine sehr gute Kaffeemaschine. — Melang

Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
coffee brewing device:
Русский
By meaning 1
coffee brewing device:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
coffee brewing device:

Origin

From percolate + -or.

From percolate + -or.

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Forms

plural: percolators
Singularpercolator
Pluralpercolators

regular

Word family

2 related words
Relatedpercolate
Derivedperk

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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