Filter

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A porous material through which a liquid or gas is passed in order to separate the fluid from suspended particulate matter.
  • noun. A device containing such a material, especially one used to extract impurities from air or water.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Any of various electric, electronic, acoustic, or optical devices used to reject signals, vibrations, or radiations of certain frequencies while allowing others to pass.
  • noun. A colored glass or other transparent material used to select the wavelengths of light allowed to reach a photosensitive material.
  • noun. A program or device that blocks e-mail or restricts website access when specific criteria are met.
  • intransitive verb. To pass (a liquid or gas) through a filter.
  • intransitive verb. To remove by passing through a filter.
  • intransitive verb. To use a filter to block or restrict access to.
  • intransitive verb. To pass through or as if through a filter.
  • intransitive verb. To come or go gradually and in small groups.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Same as felter.
  • noun. See philter.
  • To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by passing it through a filter or any cleansing medium; strain.
  • Specifically In analytic chemistry, to separate (a solution) from the solid matter contained in it, either for the purpose of collecting and saving the solid matter, usually a precipitate, or of preparing the solution for further operations.
  • To percolate; pass through or as through a filter.
  • noun. A device for arresting and separating any matter mechanically suspended in a liquid.
  • noun. Specifically In fish-culture, a long box in which screens, usually of flannel, are placed, through which the water is filtered before it passes into the hatching-troughs. Also called filtering-box, filtering-tank.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To pass through a filter; to percolate.
  • noun. Same as philter.
  • transitive verb. To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.
  • transitive verb. a porous unsized paper, for filtering.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • noun. Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air.
  • noun. a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel.
  • noun. an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also infiltration gallery.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
  • noun. Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
  • noun. Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
  • noun. A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
  • verb. To sort, sift, or isolate.
  • verb. To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
  • verb. To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
  • verb. To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
  • verb. To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
  • verb. pass through
  • verb. remove by passing through a filter
  • noun. an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
  • noun. device that removes something from whatever passes through it
  • Word Usage
    "What you can put in the text box to filter is anything you would put after '$filter =' in a"
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    separate  
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    kilter  quilter  
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    philter  
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