Filter synonyms
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To enter, depart, or become diffused gradually:
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- To enter, depart, or become diffused gradually:
- To leak, drip, or flow out slowly through small openings or pores; ooze
- To pass slowly through small openings or pores; ooze:
osmose
To subject to, or undergo, osmosis
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- To subject to, or undergo, osmosis
- (Intransitive) To diffuse by osmosis.
- To diffuse or cause to diffuse by osmosis.
soak through
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To spread or diffuse; penetrate
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- To spread or diffuse; penetrate
- To spread or flow throughout; pervade:
- To pass through the openings or interstices of:
To exude or give off (matter) in drops or small quantities.
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- To exude or give off (matter) in drops or small quantities.
- To cause or allow to fall in drops
- To remove, extract, or produce by distillation
To pass or ooze through:
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- To pass or ooze through:
- To cause (liquid, for example) to pass through a porous substance or small holes; filter.
- To drain or ooze through (a porous substance); permeate
To cause (a liquid) to filter down through some material
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- To cause (a liquid) to filter down through some material
- To lose soluble matter as a result of the filtering through of water
- To empty; drain:
To diffuse or seem to radiate
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- To diffuse or seem to radiate
- To discharge or emit (a liquid or gas, for example) gradually.
- To pass out in drops through pores, an incision, etc.; ooze; discharge
To seem to radiate
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- To seem to radiate
- To give forth moisture, as through pores
- To flow or leak out slowly, as through very small holes; seep
To flow off gradually
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- To flow off gradually
- To become empty by the drawing off of liquid:
- To flow off or out:
metastasize
To be transmitted or transferred by metastasis.
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- To be transmitted or transferred by metastasis.
- To spread, especially destructively:
- (Med.) To spread to other parts of the body by metastasis
To pass, or cause (a fluid, cell, etc.) to pass, through small gaps or openings; filter
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- To pass, or cause (a fluid, cell, etc.) to pass, through small gaps or openings; filter
- To penetrate, or cause to penetrate (a region or group) gradually or stealthily, so as to attack or to seize control from within
- To cause a liquid or gas to permeate a substance by passing through its interstices or pores.
To move, come, go, etc. little by little
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- To move, come, go, etc. little by little
- To cause to trickle.
- To flow slowly in a thin stream or fall in drops
To rid of foreign or objectionable elements:
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- To rid of foreign or objectionable elements:
- To free from incorrect or corrupting elements
- To rid of impurities:
To pass through a sieve.
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- To pass through a sieve.
- To put or pass through a sieve; sift
- To use a sieve; sift.
(--- Physics) To cause distortion of (a body's parts or shape) by applying an external force; deform.
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- (--- Physics) To cause distortion of (a body's parts or shape) by applying an external force; deform.
- A group of organisms of the same species, sharing certain hereditary characteristics not typical of the entire species but minor enough not to warrant classification as a separate breed or variety. Resistance to specific antibiotics is a feature of certain strains of bacteria.
- The extent to which a body is distorted when it is subjected to a deforming force, as when under stress. The distortion can involve a change both in shape and in size. All measures of strain are dimensionless (they have no unit of measure). &diamf3; Axial strain is equal to the ratio between the change in length of an object and its original length. &diamf3; Volume strain is equal to the ratio between the change in volume of an object and its original volume. It is also called bulk strain. &diamf3; Shear strain is equal to the ratio between the amount by which an object is skewed and its length.
To remove by purifying.
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- To remove by purifying.
- To become fine or pure; become free from impurities, etc.
- To use precise distinctions and subtlety in thought or speech.
filtrate
To filter
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- To filter
- To put or go through a filter.
To make or become clear and free from impurities
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- To make or become clear and free from impurities
- To melt (butter) and remove the water and milk solids
- To become clear.
To remove (dirt, impurities, etc.) in making clean
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- To remove (dirt, impurities, etc.) in making clean
- To rid of dirt, rubbish, or impurities:
- In a clean or nonpolluting manner:
To put space between; space apart or scatter:
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- To put space between; space apart or scatter:
- To remove from a mixture or combination; isolate.
- To become divided into components or parts:
Find another word for filter. In this page you can discover 23 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for filter, like: seep, osmose, soak through, penetrate, permeate, distill, percolate, leach, exude, ooze and drain.
