filter

[fil·ter]

A machine or device that removes dangerous or unwanted materials from a substance passing through it is called a filter. A kitchen water filter makes the water safer to drink and also taste better.

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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
device that removes something from whatever passes through it

Noun
an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it

Verb
pass through; "Water permeates sand easily"

Verb
remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"

Verb
run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in"

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n.
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.

n.
To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.

v. i.
To pass through a filter; to percolate.

n.
Same as Philter.

Filter

Fil"ter , n. [F. filtre, the same word as feutre felt, LL. filtrum, feltrum, felt, fulled wool, this being used for straining liquors. See Feuter.] 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. Filter bed, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. -- Filter gallery, 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.

Filter

Fil"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Filtered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Filtering] [Cf. F. filter. See Filter, n., and cf. Filtrate.] To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter. Filtering paper, ∨ Filter paper, a porous unsized paper, for filtering.

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Fil"ter, v. i. To pass through a filter; to percolate.

Filter

Fil"ter, n. Same as Philter.

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.

To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.

To pass through a filter; to percolate.

Same as Philter.

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Usage Examples

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention.

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Other Usage Examples

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.