filter

Meaning

Noun

1. A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
2. Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
3. Any item, mechanism, device, or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
4. Self-restraint in speech.
5. A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
6. A translucent object placed in the light path of a camera to remove certain wavelengths (colors), or a computer program that simulates such an effect.

Verb

1. To sort, sift, or isolate.
2. To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
3. To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
4. To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
5. To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road

Concepts

filter

strain

strainer

sieve

percolate

filtrate

sift

screen

refine

leach

colander

permeate

seep

basket

drain

penetrate

filter out

separate out

trickle

optical filter

clarify

cleanse

clear

distill

process

wave filter

purify

ooze

distil

sink in

dribble

exude

sifter

F

infiltrate

color absorber

light filter

spectral filter

filter lens

filtrator

short list

triage

vet

examine closely

water bag

osmose

drip into

leak

soak through

spatial filter

filt

fil

pump

bubble up

flow

make drip

refinery

still

charm love

philter

philtre

DOS

inverted filter

loaded filter

reversed filter

weighed filter

filtration

filter plate

glass filter

ray filter

cullender

filter apparatus

filtrum

smoothing device

cleaner

packed bed filter

bibulous paper

filter paper

color filter

filter screenoscope

balance gear

compensation apparatus

compensator

complementor

equalizer

inlet rose box

pass filter

purifier

rose head

woven

squeeze

separate

funnel

Cottrell precipitator

electrostatic precipitator

precipitator

filter tip

tilter

drip

drop

drop off

flux

gutter

pour

pour out

run out

spill

stream

waste

well out

depurate

mesh

skim

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɪltə/

Etymology

From Middle English filtre, from Medieval Latin filtrum (compare also Old French feutre (“felt; filter”)), from Frankish *filtir, from Proto-West Germanic *felt. See felt. Doublet of phin.

Sentences

A pop filter differs from a microphone windscreen .