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Filter

noun

Device that removes something from whatever passes through it.

An electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it.

verb

(past & past part. filtered; pres. part. filtering)

Remove by passing through a filter. Synonyms: filter out, filtrate, separate out, strain.

Pass through. Synonyms: percolate, permeate, sink in.

Run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream. Synonyms: dribble, trickle. "Reports began to dribble in"

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"Filter" Quotes from Famous Books

... Infuse vinegar, To draw his volatile substance and his tincture: And let the water in glass E be filter'd, And put into the gripe's egg. Lute him well; And ...

— The Alchemist • Ben Jonson

... lived in a suburban neighbourhood. It was useless. He married a sweet girl with various spiteful relations. In vain. He changed his name to PUMPDRY, and conducted a local newspaper. Profitless striving. STARLING was always at hand, always ready with the patent filter, and as punctual in his appearances as the washing-bill or the East wind. I repeat, he was ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., December 13, 1890 • Various

... had said we were to conquer. Then came last spring and the end of hope. Week after week, Marjorie saw the sunbeams filter through the windows of her open porch; near by, a pair of robins built their nest; she watched them and knew them and named them. We planned great things together and great journeys we should make. That they were not to be she never knew.... ...

— Making the House a Home • Edgar A. Guest

... the solution in the funnel is below the cork, air is let into the flask and a small quantity of new solution is let down into the funnel. The process works well and needs no watching, and instead of the filtrate being in a large filter paper, it is on one small piece and can be handled with ease. —Contributed by Loren Ward, ...

— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics

... your filter amounts to about that!" The doctor snapped a pudgy finger into a plump palm. "The river-water in this state has been poisoned. You must go into the hills—to the lakes, ...

— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day

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