Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to filter
Participle: filtered
Gerund: filtering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | filter |
| you | filter |
| he;she;it | filters |
| we | filter |
| you | filter |
| they | filter |
Perfect
| I | have filtered |
| you | have filtered |
| he;she;it | has filtered |
| we | have filtered |
| you | have filtered |
| they | have filtered |
Past
| I | filtered |
| you | filtered |
| he;she;it | filtered |
| we | filtered |
| you | filtered |
| they | filtered |
Pluperfect
| I | had filtered |
| you | had filtered |
| he;she;it | had filtered |
| we | had filtered |
| you | had filtered |
| they | had filtered |
Future
| I | will filter |
| you | will filter |
| he;she;it | will filter |
| we | will filter |
| you | will filter |
| they | will filter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have filtered |
| you | will have filtered |
| he;she;it | will have filtered |
| we | will have filtered |
| you | will have filtered |
| they | will have filtered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | filter |
| you | filter |
| he;she;it | filter |
| we | filter |
| you | filter |
| they | filter |
Perfect
| I | have filtered |
| you | have filtered |
| he;she;it | have filtered |
| we | have filtered |
| you | have filtered |
| they | have filtered |
Imperfect
| I | filtered |
| you | filtered |
| he;she;it | filtered |
| we | filtered |
| you | filtered |
| they | filtered |
Pluperfect
| I | had filtered |
| you | had filtered |
| he;she;it | had filtered |
| we | had filtered |
| you | had filtered |
| they | had filtered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would filter |
| you | would filter |
| he;she;it | would filter |
| we | would filter |
| you | would filter |
| they | would filter |
Perfect
| I | would have filtered |
| you | would have filtered |
| he;she;it | would have filtered |
| we | would have filtered |
| you | would have filtered |
| they | would have filtered |
Imperative
| you | filter |
| we | Let's filter |
| you | filter |
Verbs conjugated like 'filter'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'filter'
falter,
felter,
alter,
balter,
bitter,
dister,
faulter,
fester,
fetter,
feuter,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- strain
- distill, purify, sift, filtrate, refine, sieve, separate, percolate
- seep
- trickle, infiltrate, penetrate, permeate, percolate
Additional Information
Etymology
From Middle English filtre, from Medieval Latin filtrum (compare also Old French feutre (“felt; filter”)), from Frankish *filtir, from Proto-West Germanic *felt. See felt. Doublet of phin.
Verbs referencing "filter"
Dutch
filteren.
Sample Sentences
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This strainer should filter out the large particles.
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“You have probably never seen anything like this before, Mr. Toler. It is baleen, or if you prefer it, whalebone, taken from the mouth of the bowhead whale. It is used by the whale to filter its food.” [1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 5, in The Subtle Minotaur:]
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Receivers often incorporate digital equalisers to 'mop up' slight intersymbol interference after initial filtering at the receiver. [1992, Chris C. Bissell, David A. Chapman, Digital signal transmission (2nd edition), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 147:]
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But fans’ emotions are no longer filtered through ticket or album sales; they’re heard directly, constantly, at all hours, on all the platforms people visit to generate and extinguish bad feelings in a never-ending cycle. [2022 October 25, Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame”, in The New York Times Magazine:]
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The leaves of the trees filtered the light.
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The water filtered through the rock and soil.
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The crowd filtered into the theater.
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I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering.
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Most people get filtered by that episode.