Synonyms for filter
ˈfɪl tərfil·ter

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1. filterverb

   Synonyms:
   filter out

2. filterverb

   To sort, sift, or isolate.

   Synonyms:
   filter out

3. filterverb

   To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.

   Synonyms:
   filter out

4. filterverb

   To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.

   Synonyms:
   filter out

5. filterverb

   To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.

   The collection of cofinite subsets of is a filter under inclusion: it includes the intersection of every pair of its members, and includes every superset of every cofinite set.

   Synonyms:
   filter out

6. filternoun

   To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road

   Synonyms:
   filter out

   Antonyms:
   ideal

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1. filter

   Synonyms:
   strain, percolate, refine, distil, ooze, exude, leak, depurate, defecate, clarify

   Antonyms:
   befoul, muddle, disturb, thicken

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1. filternoun

   device that removes something from whatever passes through it

2. filterverb

   an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it

3. filter, filtrate, strain, separate out, filter outverb

   remove by passing through a filter

   "filter out the impurities"

   Synonyms:
   sift, separate out, reach, strain, filter out, tense up, dribble, permeate, sink in, tense, try, extend, puree, distort, strive, percolate, filtrate, trickle, sieve, deform, stress

4. percolate, sink in, permeate, filterverb

   pass through

   "Water permeates sand easily"

   Synonyms:
   click, separate out, penetrate, perk up, dawn, leach, dribble, permeate, get through, diffuse, sink in, strain, gain vigor, come home, perk, imbue, percolate, filtrate, pervade, riddle, pick up, get across, fall into place, filter out, interpenetrate, trickle

5. trickle, dribble, filterverb

   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:
   drool, separate out, drivel, strain, slobber, dribble, permeate, percolate, slabber, drop, filter out, filtrate, drip, trickle, carry, sink in, slaver

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1. filterverb

   Synonyms:
   strain, pass through a strainer

2. filterverb

   Synonyms:
   percolate, transude, exude, strain, ooze

3. filternoun

   Synonyms:
   strainer

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1. filterverb

   Synonyms:
   strain, clarify, filtrate, percolate, exude, ooze, seep, transude, infiltrate

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1. List of paraphrases for "filter":

   filters, filtering, filtration, filtered, cleaner, screen, filtrate, trap, strainer, ptfe

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1. Elon Musk:

   I tweet interesting things pretty much as they come to me, and probably with not much of a filter.

2. Robert Boessenecker:

   There are many other unique and strange early dolphins and baleen whales from Oligocene aged rocks in Charleston, South Carolina, because the Oligocene epoch is the time when filter feeding and echolocation first evolved, and since marine mammal localities of that time are scarce worldwide, the fossils from Charleston offer the most complete window into the early evolution of these groups.

3. Patrick Register:

   I imagine most candidates wouldn’t want to do it because all of a sudden you’re going to have to explain why you have a Tinder profile. i have this forum that’s letting women of no filter — every age, race background, family, no family — I’m able to have these back and forth, one-on-one conversations and I’m getting amazing things.

4. Andy Fecko:

   You simply can not filter out the taste and odor.

5. Elizabeth Warren.Julie Cetrone:

   Some of the stuff he says, when he's saying it, and I'm watching on TV, I spit my water out, i can't help but laugh. It's humorous. Some of the things -- not a lot -- but some of the things he's said, I've thought of saying, but I never would do it. I guess I give him credit for sticking with whatever he believes in. But he needs to use a filter way more.