Filtering

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Filter \Fil"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filtered}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Filtering}] [Cf. F. filter. See {Filter}, n., and cf.
     {Filtrate}.]
     To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing
     it to pass through a filter.
     [1913 Webster]


  
     {Filtering paper}, or {Filter paper}, a porous unsized paper,
        for filtering.
        [1913 Webster]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "filtering":
     bolting, clarification, colature, destructive distillation,
     distillation, edulcoration, effusion, elution, elutriation,
     essentialization, excretion, exfiltration, extraction,
     extravasation, exudation, filtration, leaching, lixiviation, ooze,
     oozing, percolating, percolation, purification, refinement,
     riddling, screening, seep, seepage, separation, sieving, sifting,
     spiritualization, straining, sublimation, transudation, weep,
     weeping, winnowing