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Filter

Filter Meaning & Definition
Filter Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Filter?

[n] device that removes something from whatever passes through it
[n] an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
[v] pass through; "Water permeates sand easily"
[v] remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"
[v] run or flow slowly, or in an unsteady stream; "reports began to dribble in."

Synonyms | Synonyms for Filter: dribble | filter out | filtrate | percolate | permeate | separate out | sink in | strain | trickle

Related Terms | Find terms related to Filter: bleed | bolt | butterfly | cheesecloth | clarifier | clarify | clean | clear | cloth | colander | condense | cradle | cribble | decrassify | depurate | diffusing screen | discharge | distill | drain | dribble | drip | dripple | drop | edulcorate | effuse | eliminate | elute | emit | essentialize | exclude | excrete | exfiltrate | extract | extravasate | exudate | exude | filtrate | frosted glass | frosted lens | gauze | gelatin filter | give off | ground glass | gurgle | leach | lens hood | light filter | lixiviate | lixiviator | membrane | ooze | pass through | percolate | percolator | purifier | purify | rectify | reek | refine | refiner | refinery | riddle | rocker | run through | screen | seep | separate | sieve | sift | sifter | smoked glass | spiritualize | spurtle | stained glass | strain | strainer | sublimate | sublime | transude | trickle | try | weed out | weep | winnow | winnowing basket | winnowing fan | winnowing machine

See Also | air cleaner | air filter | bacteria bed | coffee filter | course | device | diatomaceous earth | diatomite | diffusing screen | drain basket | electrical device | filter bed | flow | fuel filter | glass wool | infiltrate | kieselguhr | leach | light filter | oil filter | penetrate | percolate | perforate | run | separate | strainer | water filter

Filter In Webster's Dictionary

\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}.
\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}, or {Filter paper}, a porous unsized paper, for filtering.
\Fil"ter\, v. i. To pass through a filter; to percolate.
\Fil"ter\, n. Same as {Philter}.
filter p [] = [] filter p (x:xs) = if p x then x : rest else rest where rest = filter p xs

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