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transcolate

transcolate verb: to strain, as if through a sieve.

Verb

transcolate (third-person singular simple present transcolates, present participle transcolating, simple past and past participle transcolated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To strain, as if through a sieve.
    • The vrine is transcolated through the flesh of the kidneis.1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia

Forms of transcolate

third-person singular presenttranscolates
present participletranscolating
past participletranscolated
pasttranscolated

Origin of transcolate

From trans- + Latin colare, colatum (“to filter, to strain”).

Questions about transcolate

What does transcolate mean?
Transcolate means to strain, as if through a sieve.
What part of speech is transcolate?
Transcolate is a verb.
What is the past tense of transcolate?
The past tense of transcolate is transcolated.

Words near transcolate in the dictionary

  1. transcodes
  2. transcoding
  3. transcodings
  4. transcoelomic
  5. transcoelomically
  6. transcolate
  7. transcolated
  8. transcolates
  9. transcolating
  10. transcolation
  11. transcollateral

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