Word Finder - filtering

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To sort, sift, or isolate.

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This strainer should filter out the large particles.

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To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.

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The leaves of the trees filtered the light.

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To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.

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The water filtered through the rock and soil.

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To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.

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The crowd filtered into the theater.

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To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road

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I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering.

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The process of passing something through a filter.

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Something that passes through a filter.

The Monterey mists were in full effect, filtering the sunlight.

But he stopped, a twinge of something akin to regret filtering through the hard layers protecting his emotions.

In Australia a continuous juice separator is generally used, and preferred to ordinary subsiding or filtering tanks.

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To accelerate the rate of filtration various devices are resorted to, such as lengthening the tube below the filtering material, increasing the pressure on the liquid being filtered, or decreasing it in the receiver of the filtrate.

Back to 3D Graphics I have enabled bilinear filtering in an application, but the graphics still look unfiltered.

The amalgam is cleaned out periodically - fortnightly or monthly - and after filtering through linen bags to remove the excess of mercury, it is transferred to retorts for distillation (see below).

The suction may be derived from any form of air-pump; a form often employed where water at fair pressure is available is the jet-pump, which in consequence is known as a filter-pump. Another method of filtering into a vacuum is to immerse a porous jar ("Pukall cell") in the liquid to be filtered, and attach a suction-pipe to its interior.

In modern practice degreased bones (see Gelatin), or bone-ash which has lost its virtue as a filtering medium, &c., or a mineral phosphate is treated with sufficient sulphuric acid to precipitate all the calcium, the calcium sulphate filtered off, and the filtrate concentrated, mixed with charcoal, coke or sawdust and dried in a muffle furnace.

The Western philosophical tradition is always trying to simplify things by filtering out all the complexity, the crowds, the people.

More advanced delay lines can perform a filtering or signal processing function and are so called delay line transversal filters.

Tap water is usually safe due to the amount of testing and filtering done by local water treatment facilities.

Poor ventilation and filtering in many buildings lead to an increase of indoor air pollution.

The Filtrete Water Station provides water drinkers with fast filtering and reusable water bottles, while also helping minimize the impact to the environment and on people's wallets.

You can fill one, two, three or all four bottles at a time in just seconds - much faster than traditional filtering pitchers.

The Filtrete Fast Flow Filter in the water station lasts longer than traditional water pitchers, filtering two and a half times more water than traditional pitcher filters and up to 100 gallons of water.

The fast filtering means you can quickly fill additional bottles whenever you need to.

An air filtering system that scrubs pollen from the air placed in your child's room may also reduce any lingering pollen or dust.

For example, it has a much more extensive list of filtering options than either Paint.net or Photoscape.

Web Important People - This site takes a different approach to the top 100 list, filtering them by how often they are cited online.

Potential employers are more likely to recognize accredited programs and take them into serious consideration when filtering through applications for employment as well.

Plenty of Web search engines as well as reference books and materials offer search filtering by degree subject, so you shouldn't have too much trouble locating the resources you need to make an informed decision in your college search.

Not all major college information portals offer you the option of filtering your search to focus on Christian schools, but they are useful for facts and tips that are relevant to all prospective college students.

They seem to be unparalleled when it comes to light filtering.

Look for full, bright sun, not dappled sunlight filtering through tree leaves.

This is a lens material that provides one hundred percent UV filtering along with impact protection that other label makers can't offer.

There is also a number of sunglass features such as anti-reflective coatings, ClearSeal protective coatings, gradient lenses, polarized lenses, and selective filtering lenses designed to increase contrast.

This patented light filtering technology possessed by all Bolle tennis eyewear is called "Competivision".

Due to the filtering properties of the earth's atmospheric ozone layer, practically all of the ultraviolet light that reaches the earth's surface is the long-wave UVA, while the UVC is necessary to the generation of ozone.

They work by allowing the good rays in while filtering out anything harmful.

Plasmapheresis-a process where whole blood is removed from the body, processed through a filtering system, and then returned to the body-may be used to filter phytanic acid from the blood.

Normally, kidneys rid the body of wastes by filtering the wastes into the bladder where they exit the body through the urine.

Dialysis-A process of filtering and removing waste products from the bloodstream, it is used as a treatment for patients whose kidneys do not function properly.

Kidney failure may occur due to widespread obstruction of the capillaries in the filtering structures called glomeruli.

About 5 percent of victims develop hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), which can result in sudden kidney failure that requires a medical procedure (dialysis) to perform the kidney's task of filtering the body's waste products.

The brand claims that the filtering process results in a sun protection factor (SPF) between five and ten.

The plants only need to be assessed about once a year to make sure they are filtering as they ought.

Nut and plant sources of Omega-3 fatty acids actually require some filtering and refinement by the human body - much like crude oil needs to be refined.

You might even stay cooler, because the fabric does the work of filtering out the sun's rays, rather than your skin.

The DC14 offers multilevel debris filtering and removes particulates on the floor, down to 0.1 micron.

Clean or change the filter regularly to keep the unit functioning properly and avoid filtering dirt and debris into the air of your home.

Another plus for this filtering system is the lifespan of a HEPA filter is much longer than other filters.

The primary difference between models is the number of filtering stages.

It doesn't include a filtering stage so all of the ground material remains in the grinding area.

Five-piece herb grinder - This herb grinder consists of the standard grinding components and three filtering stages which allow the user to produce very fine powders.

As debris builds up, it reduces the filtering capability of the product.

A new water or air purifier filter will do a better job of filtering.

While commercially prepared beeswax is often bleached and chemically refined, this simple form of filtering the wax to clean it provides a natural form of beeswax that is perfect for making candles in their most natural form.

This is one of the main advantages of using a dating site, with your preferences filtering out the people who would not be good matches.

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