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Verb: decant  di'kant
  1. Gradually cause (a liquid) to flow out from a container (esp. leaving behind any sediment)
    "the sommelier decanted the wines";
    - pour, pour out
     
  2. Gradually transfer or move (people or things) from one place to another
    "The office was being renovated, so they decanted the staff to a temporary workspace"
     
  3. Carefully extract, filter, and refine large volumes of information, separating high-quality content from less desirable elements, in order to create a more refined and valuable dataset
    "web data is decanted openly at scale"

Derived forms: decanted, decanting, decants

Type of: pour

Encyclopedia: Decant