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Device that removes something from whatever passes through it
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filter
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES control/display/filter etc unit filter tip sunlight filters somewhere (= a little comes in ) ▪ The canopy of leaves allows some sunlight to filter through. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN air ▪ And it comes with a ...
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Filter is an American television series on the G4 cable television channel which follows a countdown format. It was canceled in December 2005, resurrected in a re-formatted form, and then once again was canceled in August 2006. It was airing as an interstitial ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. device that removes something from whatever passes through it an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s (transitive), from French filtrer or from Medieval Latin filtrare , from filtrum "felt" (see filter (n.)). The figurative sense is from 1830. Intransitive use from 1798. Related: Filtered ; filtering .
Usage examples of filter.
Did the tractors clog with aeroplankton in their air filters and carburetors?
And thanks to the aeroplankton, everyone now had to own, and wear during the aeroplankton storms, filter-masks conveniently designed to filter out the microorganism and forty-seven varieties of industrial pollutants.
Cherry delivered his beer, Arian sat quietly watching people filter in.
Tiny bright red bubbles roiled up from his exposed larynx, each prismatically ashimmer with filtered sunlight, a hundred miniature rainbows dipped in blood.
He filters and trickles through the dense social body in every possible direction, and issues forth at last the same virginal water drop.
Once a year, all the barons traveled to the Dulce facility to have their blood filtered and their autoimmune systems boosted.
They ate on the stoep in golden sunshine that filtered through the bougainvillaea creeper.
Somehow-though not from Celia, who kept her own counsel-a report of her encounter with Eli Camperdown filtered through the company.
She damped down the carburetion filter until all five engines were running in harmony.
Any coloured residue which may be left is generally organic matter: it is filtered off, calcined, and any copper it contains is estimated colorimetrically.
The residue contains the antimony as antimonate of soda, and is dissolved off the filter with hot dilute hydrochloric, with the help of a little tartaric, acid.
Cecil dropped his cigarette butt and crushed the biodegradable filter and detoxifier with his shoe.
London dawn had come, the place was full of a chilly grey light that filtered round the edges of the window blinds.
And even then they filtered tinny and absurd through the lid, even as Isaac fell into the stream of warm, faecal water, and staggered along the tunnels following the other survivors.
Type Ia supernovas as observed through blue and violet filters, and found significant differences in falloff times of the light from one object to another, from falloff in about 10 days to over 30 days.