'Filter' definitions:
Definition of 'filter'
(from WordNet)
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
Remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities" [syn: filter, filtrate, strain, separate out, filter out]
verb
verb
Definition of 'Filter'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Filtering paper, or Filter paper, a porous unsized paper, for filtering. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Filter'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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}. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Filter'
From: GCIDE
- Filter \Fil"ter\, v. i. To pass through a filter; to percolate. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'filter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Filter'
- Filtered,
- Filtering,
- filter in,
- filter out,
- Centrifugal filter,
- Filter bed,
- Filter gallery,
- Filter paper,
- Filtering paper,
- air filter,
- coffee filter,
- filter tip,
- filterable virus,
- fuel filter,
- light filter,
- oil filter,
- water filter,
- filter-tipped,
- filter-tipped cigarette,
- high-pass filter,
- low-pass filter