Filter

/ˈfɪltə/

Synonyms for "filter" (191 found)

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Closest matches (39)

Noun(14 words)

attenuate attuning blacklist blacklisting catcher chaff clarifyingcontent filterculling cullscurated resourcedata filterdicing discards

bleed bolt butterfly cheesecloth clarifier clarify clean clear cloth colander condense cradle cribble decrassify depuratediffusing screendischarge distill

Verb(7 words)

blurred clarified cleaned cleans culled curates dialyze

Strong matches (57)

drain dribble drip dripple drop edulcorate effuse eliminate elute emit equipment essentialize exclude excrete exfiltrate extract extravasate exudate exude filtrate

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frosted glassfrosted lensgauzegelatin filtergive offground glassgurgle leachlens hoodlight filterlixiviate lixiviator membrane ooze parts

Verb(8 words)

dribblefilter outfiltered filtrate filtrated funnelled grepsignore art

Noun(14 words)

drinking water purificationeliminator expurgator faceting filtering filtratesfiltration mediumfunneling funnels gate gatekeeper interceptors junk limit

Related words (95)

pass throughpercolate percolatorphotographic equipmentpurifier purifyradio receiverrectify reek refine refiner refinery riddle rockerrun throughscreen seep separate sieve sift

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siftersmoked glassspiritualize spurtlestained glassstrain strainer sublimate sublime sweat transpire transude trickle tryweed outweep winnowwinnowing basketwinnowing fanwinnowing machine

Verb(20 words)

percolate percolated percolates percolating permeate purifies sanitize sanitizes screenedseparate outsiftedsink insmoothened smoothes sorted strain strained trickle weeded winnowed

Adjective(1 words)

purified

Noun(34 words)

purifiers screen screener screeningsearch procedureselect selectors separating sieve sieves sieving sift sifting sifts slicing smoothingspam filtersquelch squelches strain

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strainer strainers straining strains subset subsetsthin outtinting trickling vetweb filterweed weeds winnowing

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5 relation types

More general

18 entries

coursedata processingdata processing componentdeviceelectrical devicefeed flowinformation processingpenetrate perforateporous barrierprocessing run separate separationseparation device

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More specific

14 entries

bandpass filtercoffee filtercontent filterdata filteremail filtergravity filtrationhigh pass filterlow pass filtermembrane filtermembrane filtrationsievespam filtervacuum filtrationweb filter

Collocations

9 entries

air filtercoffee filterdata filterfilter paperfiltering processmembrane filtermembrane filtrationwater filterwater filtration

Inflections

3 entries

filtered filtering filters

Derivations

6 entries

filterable filtered filterer filtration refilter unfiltered

Sample sentences

26 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In swimming pools, water is continuously pumped through a filter.

Source: tatoeba (681812)

You need to filter the output of this command in order to display only the lines with "foo" inside.

Source: tatoeba (835575)

Nowadays, almost everyone has a modern bean-to-cup coffee maker, but we are still using a porcelain coffee filter.

Source: tatoeba (941196)

I don't like filter coffee.

Source: tatoeba (1497892)

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