Verb: decant di'kant
- Gradually cause (a liquid) to flow out from a container (esp. leaving behind any sediment)
"the sommelier decanted the wines";
- pour, pour out
- 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"
- 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