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. Kevin Lai:

   The risk for China is still deflation, not inflation. PPI deflation will eventually filter down to affect CPI, and aggregate demand will continue to be weak.

2. Larry Kudlow:

   It is historic, it is written down, it was agreed to by the Chinese who were here two weeks ago, but it has to pass through the political filter of President Xi and the politburo, perhaps a meeting of the leaders later this month or in April. Perhaps.

3. Garrett Boyte:

   You look at that, and you think, 'Wow, gosh, you know, what would that do to my kidney or my liver?' the body can't filter that kind of stuff out.

4. Taylor Swift:

   These songs were half based on what I was going through, but seeing them through a Game of Thrones filter.

5. Suu Kyi:

   The international justice system may not yet be equipped to filter out misleading information before shadows of incrimination are cast over entire nations and governments, human rights groups have condemned Myanmar based on unproven statements without the due process of criminal investigation.