filter

filter has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.
• v. i.. To pass through a filter; to percolate.
• n.. Same as Philter.
• n.. device that removes something from whatever passes through it
• n.. an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
• v.. pass through; "Water permeates sand easily"
• v.. remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"
• v.. 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"