Definitions for filter

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filter fil·ter

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IPA: /ˈfɪl tər/

Filter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in filter (efilrt).

Definitions for filter

noun

1. any substance, as cloth, paper, porous porcelain, or a layer of charcoal or sand, through which liquid or gas is passed to remove suspended impurities or to recover solids.
2. any device, as a tank or tube, containing such a substance for filtering.
3. any of various analogous devices, as for removing dust from air or impurities from tobacco smoke, or for eliminating certain kinds of light rays.
4. something that works like a filter, as by removing, blocking, or separating out certain elements:
5. Informal. a filter-tipped cigarette or cigar.
6. Photography. a lens screen of dyed gelatin or glass for controlling the rendering of color or for diminishing the intensity of light.
7. Electronics, Physics. a circuit or device that passes certain frequencies and blocks others.
8. Mathematics. a collection of subsets of a topological space, having the properties that the intersection of two subsets in the collection is a subset in the collection and that any set containing a subset in the collection is in the collection.

verb (used with object)

1. to remove by the action of a filter.
2. to act as a filter for; to slow or partially obstruct the passage of:
3. to pass through or as through a filter.

verb (used without object)

1. to pass or slip through slowly, as through an obstruction or a filter:

Origin of filter

1375-1425; late Middle English filtre Medieval Latin filtrum “felt, piece of felt used to strain liquids” Germanic; see felt²

Examples for filter

We are overwhelmed with data from every quarter, and our capacity to filter fact from fraud is limited.

The cut shows the filter provided with a portion of its bags and frames.

Basically, my mother said with a touch of embarrassment, everyone else seemed to have a filter, so they bought one, too.

The water also was filtered through a filter of the mechanical type.

According to the box, the filter will provide me with better-tasting water.

Let it stand, five or six months; then filter it, and bottle it for use.

You research a world, and then you filter the results to fit a story.

From above a filter of sunlight fell and told her it was noon.

By using some sort of filter—like, perhaps, a universally understood saying—the trait is more easily conveyed.

Put some quicklime and red orpiment in water, place some warm ashes under it for a whole day, filter the liquor, and cork it down.