Sekirov Dictionary

filter

UK /ˈfɪltə/US /ˈfɪltɚ/

noun 7
verb 6
forms 5
phrases 3

noun7

A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
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Any item, mechanism, device, or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
- He runs an email filter to catch the junk mail.
A translucent object placed in the light path of a camera to remove certain wavelengths (colors), or a computer program that simulates such an effect.
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An appearance-altering digital image effect.
- He don't need no filter posting pictures! — 2013
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(figurative) Self-restraint in speech.
- He's got no filter, and he's always offending people as a result.
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A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
- The collection of cofinite subsets of ℝ is a filter under inclusion: it includes the intersection of every pair of its members, and includes every superset of every cofinite set.
- If (1) the universal set (here, the set of natural numbers) were called a "large" set, (2) the superset of any "large" set were also a "large" set, and (3) the intersection of a pair of "large" sets were also a "large" set, then the set of all "large" sets would form a filter.

verb6

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To sort, sift, or isolate.
- This strainer should filter out the large particles.
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To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
- The water filtered through the rock and soil.
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To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
- The crowd filtered into the theater.
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To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
- The leaves of the trees filtered the light.
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To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
- I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering.
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(slang, disapproving) To be discouraged where a connoisseur or hardcore fan would not.
- Most people get filtered by that episode.

forms

filtered · filtering · filtereth · filters · filterest

Phrases with filter

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