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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.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 9 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.
- 3intransitive verb
To pass through a filter; to percolate.
- 4noun
Same as Philter.
- 5noun
device that removes something from whatever passes through it
- 6noun
an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
- 7verb
pass through
"Water permeates sand easily"
- 8verb
remove by passing through a filter
"filter out the impurities"
- 9verb
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"
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