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colar

Pronunciation: /koˈlaɾ/

“colar” is a Spanish word. Its 8 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to sift, to strain, to filter
  2. to prepare coffee
  3. to dupe, hoodwink
  4. to missay, say wrongly
  5. to fall for, fall in love
  6. to sneak into, to crash
  7. to sift through, comb through
  8. to canonically confer (an ecclesiastical benefit)

In Spanish

  1. Filtrar un líquido, separando los sólidos en el contenidos del medio acuoso.
  2. Pasar la ropa lavada por lejía para su blanqueado.
  3. Fundir el arrabio para extraer de él el hierro.
  4. Introducir algo subrepticiamente donde no está permitido o previsto.
  5. Preparar café de filtro.
  6. Conceder canónicamente un beneficio eclesiástico.

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cōlāre whence English coulee and colander.

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