Thesaurus: filter

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1. n. 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.
2. n. To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.
3. v. i. To pass through a filter; to percolate.
4. n. Same as Philter.
5. n. device that removes something from whatever passes through it
6. n. an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
7. v. remove by passing through a filter
8. v. pass through
9. v. run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
10. 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. Filter bed, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. -- Filter gallery, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also infiltration gallery. To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter. Filtering paper, or Filter paper, a porous unsized paper, for filtering. To pass through a filter; to percolate. Same as Philter.
11. Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal,through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from thesolid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or devicecontaining such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device forpurifying air. Filter bed, a pond, the bottom of which is a filtercomposed of sand gravel.-- Filter gallery, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of astream, to collect the water that filters through the interveningsand and gravel; -- called also infiltration gallery.
12. v:38/n:62 n. device that removes something from whatever passes through it n. an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it v. remove by passing through a filter