Synonyms: filter
Definition: device that removes something from whatever passes through it
Similar words: device
Definition: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose
Usage: the device is small enough to wear on your wrist; a device intended to conserve water
Synonyms: filter
Definition: an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
Similar words: electrical device
Definition: a device that produces or is powered by electricity
Synonyms: percolate, permeate, filter, sink in
Definition: pass through
Usage: Water permeates sand easily
Similar words: penetrate, perforate
Definition: pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
Usage: The bullet penetrated her chest
Synonyms: separate out, strain, filter, filter out, filtrate
Definition: remove by passing through a filter
Usage: filter out the impurities
Similar words: separate
Definition: divide into components or constituents
Usage: Separate the wheat from the chaff
Synonyms: trickle, dribble, filter
Definition: run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
Usage: water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose; reports began to dribble in
Similar words: flow, feed, course, run
Definition: move along, of liquids
Usage: Water flowed into the cave; the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi