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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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... a sort of sixth sense with a sailorman to be able to detect a stormy atmosphere, and I felt that the yacht wasn't the place that the dove of peace would choose as a permanent abode. I don't know how the information came to me. It seemed to filter in through the pores of my skin, but it was information that I felt sure ...

— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer

... began to filter into the town about this time, and important "red hats" with brassards bearing the device "L. of C." walked about the place as if indeed ...

— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp

... Accordingly, he mixed intimately two parts of salt of sorrel and one part of red precipitate. Upon this mixture he poured sixteen parts of water, and rubbed the solid mass intimately together. In time the red-colored mass assumed an ash color, when it was collected on a filter and dried. ...

— James Cutbush - An American Chemist, 1788-1823 • Edgar F. Smith

... its place was a warm, resinous fragrance, an incense to the season. The heart of the Cape forest is passed at Wakeby and the blue waters of a great lake lap in crystal clearness on the clean sands. The Cape sands are a vast water filter and strain out of the streams all sediment. The ponds are liquid crystals in ...

— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard

... exhausted even in the hot months; but the cisterns had to be protected from the direct rays of the sun as well as from impurities. The former was effected by providing the cisterns with covering and shelter; the second by making the rain-water filter through layers, several yards thick, of sand and gravel. The natural water-holes, which are found in all deserts, but which dry up in times of protracted drought, indicated the spots where it would be most practicable to construct cisterns, for such spots were naturally the ...

— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka

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