Lexic.us

Definition of Permeate

1. Verb. Spread or diffuse through. "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"

2. Verb. Pass through. "Water permeates sand easily"

3. Verb. Penetrate mutually or be interlocked. "The territories of two married people interpenetrate a lot"

Definition of Permeate

1. v. t. To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand.

Definition of Permeate

1. Verb. To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand. ¹

2. Verb. To enter and spread through; to pervade. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Permeate

1. to spread through [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Medical Definition of Permeate

1. 1. To pass through a membrane or other structure. 2. That which can so pass. Origin: L. Permeo, to pass through (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Permeate

permeabilizes permeabilizing permeable permeableness permeablise permeablises permeablized permeably permeameter permeance

permeances permeant permeants permease permeases permeate (current term) permeated permeates permeating permeation

permeations permeative permeator permeators permed permethrin permethrinase permethrins permethylated permethylation

Literary usage of Permeate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1899)
"... have less tendency to permeate into unorganized colloids than most of the non-purgative salts. Another curious relation between the purgative acid ions ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Deep feeling and love of freedom permeate all his work. Hartmann топ Ane (härt'män fön ou'e). A German mediaeval poet; bom about 1170; died between 1210 and ..."

3. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"Tlie Egyptians knew tbe art of cutting, grinding, and" engraving it, and they eould even inlay it with gold or enamel, and " permeate opaque glass with ..."

4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"The greater the initial pressure becomes, the more the fibres are compressed together, rendering it more difficult for the gas to permeate. ..."

5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1860)
"These may be placed six or eight feet apart, and left open at the ends, that the air may more effectually permeate the soil ; by this means the soil will be ..."

6. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"And it is some demonstration how easily the effluvia ot a magnet may permeate glass, metals, and every palpable substance we are acquainted with, ..."

7. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"The greater the initial pressure becomes, the more the fibres aro compressed together, rendering it more difficult for the gas to permeate. ..."

8. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1904)
"The great iron and steel industry as it exists to-day is the product of countless inventions which permeate every branch thereof, and include many ..."

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