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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

... believe that the rushing springs of the millpond were in reality the Mole reappearing from her dive below ground at Mickleham, higher up the stream. But if that is so, the river must pass through some kind of filter, for it can be thick and cloudy at Mickleham, but is never anything but clean and pure at the mill. The mill stream joins the Mole just below Leatherhead Bridge, a fine span of fourteen arches. The Mole can put on many faces, but I think she is nowhere in all her journey more fascinating ...

— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker

... and I passed him in his egg through the half-open door. There he is again, at his mortar and his filter. We won't ...

— Doctor Pascal • Emile Zola

... around the roots. The plants are then placed carefully in willow baskets, prepared for the purpose, and carried to the holes already opened for their reception; gathering up the earth around the stem, and pressing it carefully down with the foot, in such a manner as to form a basin or filter for the reception of the rain-water, and for suffering it to percolate among the roots, and also to provide a convenient place of deposit for the subsequent ...

— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... naked candle at a road-house would give a stab of pain every time the eyes encountered it, and reading would become almost impossible. The amber glasses, however, while leaving vision almost as bright as without them, filter out the rays that cause the irritation and afford perfect protection against the consequences of sun and glare. There is only one improvement to make in the amber glasses, and that is some device of air-tight cells that shall prevent them from fogging when the cold on the outside ...

— The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) - A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest - Peak in North America • Hudson Stuck

... was high; and when he reached the house, he found his mother and Kate already seated at breakfast—Kate in the prettiest of cotton dresses, looking as fresh and country-like as the morning itself. The window was open, and through the encircling ivy, as through a filter of shadows, the air came fresh and cool. Beyond the shadow of the house lay the sunshine, a warm sea of brooding glory, of still power; not the power of flashing into storms of splendour beneath strange winds, but of waking up and cherishing to beauty the shy ...

— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

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