"filter" Definition

Definitions for the word "filter" from multiple English dictionaries.

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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To pass through a filter; to percolate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Same as Philter.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
1 porous device for removing impurities etc. From a liquid or gas passed through it. 2 = *filter tip. 3 screen or attachment for absorbing or modifying light, x-rays, etc. 4 device for suppressing unwanted electrical or sound waves. 5 arrangement for filtering traffic. v. 1 (cause to) pass through a filter. 2 (foll. By through, into, etc.) Make way gradually. 3 (foll. By out) (cause to) leak. 4 allow (traffic) or (of traffic) be allowed to pass to the left or right at a junction. [germanic: related to *felt1]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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