Definition of filter

noun (n)

• device that removes something from whatever passes through it (noun.artifact)

  source: wordnet30
• an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it (noun.artifact)

  source: wordnet30
• 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)

  source: webster1913
• Same as Philter. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• remove by passing through a filter (verb.contact)

  Synonym: filter out, filtrate, separate out, strain
  

  Example:
  Filter out the impurities.
  

  source: wordnet30
• pass through (verb.contact)

  Synonym: percolate, permeate, sink in, undergo
  

  source: wordnet30
• run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream (verb.motion)

  Synonym: dribble, trickle
  

  source: wordnet30
• To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To pass through a filter; to percolate. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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