Definition of Filter

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Filter

Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air.

To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.

To pass through a filter; to percolate.

Same as Philter.

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Filter Quotations

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.
Elliott Smith

Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.
Kathy Mattea

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
Arianna Huffington

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
B. Carroll Reece

Filter Translations

filter in Dutch is filtreren, filteren, zijgen
filter in Finnish is suodattaa
filter in French is filtrage, filtrons, filtrer, filtrent, filtre
filter in German is Filter
filter in Italian is filtro
filter in Norwegian is filter, filtrere
filter in Portuguese is filtro
filter in Spanish is filtro, filtrar
filter in Swedish is filter, sila, filtrera

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