filter
filter is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.
- intransitive verb. To pass through a filter; to percolate.
- noun. Same as Philter.
- noun. device that removes something from whatever passes through it
- noun. an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
- verb. pass through
"Water permeates sand easily"
- verb. remove by passing through a filter
"filter out the impurities"
- verb. 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
percolate, permeate, filtrate, strain, dribble, trickle
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in filter:
fertil, filtre, lifter, relift, trifle
Common word forms
filters, filtered, filterer, filtering, filterable
Words from these letters
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