NOUN
  • Definition - 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.
  • Definition - Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
  • Definition - Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
  • Example - He runs an email filter to catch the junk mail.
  • Definition - Self-restraint in speech.
  • Example - He's got no filter, and he's always offending people as a result.
  • Definition - A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
  • Example - 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.
VERB
  • Definition - To sort, sift, or isolate.
  • Example - This strainer should filter out the large particles.
  • Definition - To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
  • Example - The leaves of the trees filtered the light.
  • Definition - To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
  • Example - The water filtered through the rock and soil.
  • Definition - To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
  • Example - The crowd filtered into the theater.
  • Definition - To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
  • Example - I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering.
Words in your word
7 Letter Words
filters 10 lifters 10 stifler 10 trifles 10
5 Letter Words
feist 8 felts 8 filer 8 files 8 filet 8 fires 8 first 8 flier 8 flies 8 flirs 8 flirt 8 flite 8 flits 8 frets 8 fries 8 frise 8 frits 8 lefts 8 lifer 8 lifts 8 refit 8 reifs 8 rifle 8 rifts 8 serif 8 islet 5 istle 5 liers 5 liter 5 lites 5 litre 5 relit 5 resit 5 riels 5 riles 5 rites 5 slier 5 stile 5 tiers 5 tiler 5 tiles 5 tires 5 tirls 5 tries 5
4 Letter Words
efts 7 felt 7 fest 7 fets 7 file 7 fils 7 fire 7 firs 7 fist 7 fits 7 flir 7 flit 7 fret 7 frit 7 left 7 lief 7 life 7 lift 7 refs 7 reft 7 reif 7 rife 7 rifs 7 rift 7 seif 7 self 7 serf 7 sift 7 tref 7 erst 4 ires 4 isle 4 leis 4 lest 4 lets 4 lier 4 lies 4 lire 4 list 4 lite 4 lits 4 reis 4 rest 4 rets 4 riel 4 rile 4 rise 4 rite 4 silt 4 sire 4
3 Letter Words
efs 6 eft 6 elf 6 fer 6 fes 6 fet 6 fie 6 fil 6 fir 6 fit 6 ifs 6 ref 6 rif 6 els 3 ers 3 est 3 ire 3 its 3 lei 3 let 3 lie 3 lis 3 lit 3 rei 3 res 3 ret 3 sei 3 sel 3 ser 3 set 3 sir 3 sit 3 sri 3 tel 3 tes 3 tie 3 til 3 tis 3
2 Letter Words
ef 5 fe 5 if 5 el 2 er 2 es 2 et 2 is 2 it 2 li 2 re 2 si 2 te 2 ti 2