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Filter :: Filter (v. i.) To pass through a filter; to percolate.

Drain :: Drain (v. t.) To filter.

Strain :: Strain (a.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth..

Filter :: Filter (n.) Same as Philter.

Tared :: Tared (a.) Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates..

Filter :: Filter (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..

Infilter :: Infilter (v. t. & i.) To filter or sift in.

Filter :: Filter (n.) To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter..

Filtered :: Filtered (imp. & p. p.) of Filte.

Strain :: Strain (v. i.) To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil..

Filtrate :: Filtrate (v. t.) To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation..

Percolate :: Percolate (v. t.) To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain..

Percolator :: Percolator (n.) One who, or that which, filters..

Percolation :: Percolation (n.) The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it..

Filtrate :: Filtrate (n.) That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration.

Colation :: Colation (n.) The act or process of straining or filtering.

Straining :: Strainer (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid..

Clay :: Clay (v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar..

Filtration :: Filtration (n.) The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

Inhaler :: Inhaler (n.) A contrivance to filter, as air, in order to protect the lungs from inhaling damp or cold air, noxious gases, dust, etc.; also, the respiratory apparatus for divers..

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