English | German | Russian | Czech
Englishfor English speakers
Englishas a second language
B2

filter English

Meaning filter meaning

What does filter mean?
Definitions in simple English

filter Noun

— A filter is a piece of equipment that put gas or liquid through to take out the parts you don't want, to clean it. Car engines have a fuel filter to keep the fuel clean.

filter Verb

— If you filter a gas or a liquid, you put it through something that takes out the parts you don't want. We filter the water.

filter

— verb (= filter out) remove by passing through a filter filter out the impurities — noun device that removes something from whatever passes through it — verb (= permeate) pass through Water permeates sand easily — noun an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it — verb (= trickle, dribble) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose reports began to dribble in

Synonyms filter synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as filter?

filter English » English

strain strainer sieve percolate filtrate sift screen refine leach seep permeate colander basket drain trickle separate out penetrate optical filter filter out wave filter spectral filter sink in sifter purify process ooze light filter infiltrate filtrator filter lens exude dribble distill distil color absorber clear cleanse clarify F woven well out weighed filter water bag waste vet triage tilter stream still squeeze

Topics filter topics

What do people use filter to talk about?
Universe, creation Water

Water quality
Daily life Food Types of food Alcoholic beverage

Alcohol preparation
Daily life Food

Tobacco
Work and occupation Occupation Art

Photography

Conjugation filter conjugation

How do you conjugate filter?

filter · verb

Examples filter examples

How do I use filter in a sentence?

Simple sentences

In swimming pools, water is continuously pumped through a filter.
Nowadays, almost everyone has a modern bean-to-cup coffee maker, but we are still using a porcelain coffee filter.
I don't like filter coffee.
Be sure to clean the lint filter before you run the dryer. Otherwise, you might start a fire.
Tom changed the oil filter.
Tom used a filter to enhance his photo.
Tom used a filter to enhance the image.
This dust is impossible to filter from the air.
Did you change the filter?

Movie subtitles

Now we'll try one with a filter, eh?
I'm not gonna try to filter across.
You clear out a bunker and try to move ahead and they filter in behind you.
Well, there's two hours labor, broken set of tubes, new oscillator and a new filter.
These have no filter.
They would have liked filter tips.
Venturesome females filter into this camp despite the guards.
Filter tips?
Can't stand filter tips.
Plain or filter?
Mr. Filter.
I paint naked, Mrs. Filter.
It contained this. An infra red filter.
A filter and a bit of paper making all the smoke.
So it managed to shred the filter.
Gradually the light began to filter through the darkness like some mysterious figure stealing through the trees.
The filter pump at camp broke down this morning, and I was wondering if I could get some drinking water from your well.
Our filter pump broke down, and the boys get pretty thirsty during the heat of the day.
Just plain straight filter.
Smoke the new milder Filter Tip Superbos, now with a cork tip at one end and a filter tip at the other.
Superbo Filter Cork Ends and Burperex for the tum-tum.
Filter tips.
No, I smoke only filter tips.
If you smoke the modern way, don't be fooled by phoney filter claims.
With filter.
Just beginning to filter through the Wooster brain that you're not government chaps. An amazing piece of detective work, Mr. Wooster.
I told you 50 times I want an American tank - to filter my water.
The filter.
It should be possible to filter out the human factors.
I cannot filter out the distortion, sir.
You could use an infrared film, a 25 filter on a 35 mil camera with a telephoto lens and.
When I make a movie, whatever it's based on, I always want to run it through my own filter.
No, but a filter mask should remove the exposure.
We have used these filter masks frequently on.
How can a mere filter accomplish what centuries of evolution have failed to do?

News and current affairs

A lot of water had to pass under the bridge before the idea of a two-state solution, whether as a moral or a practical matter, began to filter into the Israeli and Palestinian political and ideological environments.
Cleaner energy sources must be adopted, while forests and wetlands must be preserved and restored to absorb carbon dioxide, and to absorb floodwaters and filter contaminants before they reach water supplies.
But is it possible to create the appropriate conditions - to filter ideas and execute plans, and thus to facilitate creativity - under which innovation may flourish?

Are you looking for...?

filter passer | filter aid | filtering | filter bag | filtergram | filterer | filter bed | filtered | filtercube | filterable | filter-bag | filter up
Wordcyclopedia Gutes Wörterbuch Толстый словарь Dobrý slovník
Sources WordNet, Open Multilingual Wordnet, Wiktionary, Dbnary, Panlex, FreeLing, Tatoeba, OpenSubtitles.org, Project Syndicate, OPUS, Kelly Project, SIL Semantic Domains
Contact info@wordcyclopedia.com
Creative Commons BY-SA