Filtering

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Straining; defecating: used in compounds.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of filter.
  • Word Usage
    "He also said he realizes that "we've got a very small window to really get things right," and that there are a lot of other competitors trying to solve the same problem Digg is, which he described as filtering the firehose of information that comes from Twitter and Facebook and other social-media services."
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    verb-stem
    filter