different between drip vs filter

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English drippen, druppen, from Old English dryppan, from Proto-Germanic *drupjan? (“to fall in drops, drip”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop”). Akin to West Frisian drippe (“to drip”),Dutch druipen, druppelen (“to drip”), German Low German drüppen (“to drip”), German tropfen, tröpfeln (“to drip”), Norwegian Bokmål dryppe, Norwegian Nynorsk drypa (“to drip”).

Verb

drip (third-person singular simple present drips, present participle dripping, simple past and past participle dripped)

1. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.

2. (intransitive) To leak slowly.

3. (transitive) To let fall in drops.
   • c. 1726, Alexander Pope (probable author), The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch

     Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain.
4. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.

5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.

6. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
7. (Britain, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
   • 1995, Sue Innes, Making it work: women, change and challenge in the 1990s (page 21)

     The Women's Royal Naval Service was integrated with the Royal Navy in November 1993. […] Men interviewed by Public Eye (April, 1994) said they should 'stop dripping about it' and that women should learn to 'take it like a man […]

   • 2012, I. H. Milburn, Falklands War - Get STUFT

     The government had been slowly running down the Royal Navy Organisation to save money on various peoples' budgets, so now we had to sub-contract ships to go to war! So stop dripping and "make it so", all those admirals can't be wrong!

Derived terms

• bedrip
• dripper
• dripple

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English drippe, from the verb (see above). Compare West Frisian drip (“drip”), Dutch drup (“drip”), Danish dryp (“drip”).

Noun

drip (plural drips)

1. A drop of a liquid.

   I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.

2. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
3. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.

   He's not doing so well. The doctors have put him on a drip.

4. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.

   He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip!

5. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.

Derived terms

• drip irrigation

Translations

Etymology 3

Acronym.

Noun

drip

1. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.

Translations

English

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?lt?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?lt?/
• Rhymes: -?lt?(?)
• Homophone: philter

Noun

filter (plural filters)

1. A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
2. Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
3. Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.

4. (figuratively) self-restraint in speech.

5. (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).

   The collection of cofinite subsets of ? is a filter under inclusion: it includes the intersection of every pair of its members, and includes every superset of every cofinite set.

   If (1) the universal set (here, the set of natural numbers) were called a "large" set, (2) the superset of any "large" set were also a "large" set, and (3) the intersection of a pair of "large" sets were also a "large" set, then the set of all "large" sets would form a filter.

Antonyms

• (order theory): ideal

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• clear-filter
• filter bed
• highpass filter
• filtrand
• filtrate
• (order theory): ultrafilter

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (firut?)
• ? Korean: ?? (pilteo)

Translations

Verb

filter (third-person singular simple present filters, present participle filtering, simple past and past participle filtered)

1. (transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
   • This strainer should filter out the large particles.
2. (transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
   • The leaves of the trees filtered the light.
3. (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
   • The water filtered through the rock and soil.
4. (intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
   • The crowd filtered into the theater.
5. (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
   • I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering.

Synonyms

• (to sort, sift, or isolate) to filter out (something)

Translations

Related terms

• filtrate
• filtration
• filtride

Anagrams

• filtre, firtle, lifter, relift, trifle

Danish

Noun

filter n (singular definite filtret or filteret, plural indefinite filtre)

1. filter

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French filtre or German Filter, from Latin filtrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?l.t?r/
• Hyphenation: fil?ter

Noun

filter m or n (plural filters, diminutive filtertje n)

1. A filter (dense mesh or fabric used for filtration).
2. A cigarette filter.
3. A light filter.
4. A camera filter.

Usage notes

The word is masculine in Belgium, chiefly neuter but sometimes masculine in the Netherlands.

Derived terms

• filtreren
• filterkoffie
• koffiefilter
• luchtfilter
• sigarettenfilter
• uv-filter
• waterfilter

Related terms

• filtratie
• filtreren

Descendants

• Afrikaans: filter
• ? Indonesian: filter

References

Anagrams

• flirte

German

Verb

filter

1. inflection of filtern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Filter, from Medieval Latin filtrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?filt?r]
• Hyphenation: fil?ter
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

filter

1. filter (any device that separates one substance from another)
2. cigarette filter

Declension

References

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch filter, from French filtre, from Medieval Latin filtrum (compare also Old French feutre (“felt; filter”)), from Frankish *filtir, from Proto-West Germanic *felt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?lt?r]
• Hyphenation: fil?têr

Noun

filter

1. filter,
   1. a device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
   2. (electronics, physics) electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.

Synonyms

• penyaring
• penapis
• tapis

Affixations

Further reading

• “filter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French filtre

Noun

filter n (definite singular filteret or filtret, indefinite plural filter or filtre, definite plural filtra or filtrene)

1. a filter

Derived terms

• kaffefilter
• luftfilter

Related terms

• filtrere

References

• “filter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French filtre

Noun

filter n (definite singular filteret, indefinite plural filter, definite plural filtera)

1. a filter

Derived terms

• luftfilter

References

• “filter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• fìltar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lter/
• Hyphenation: fil?ter

Noun

fìlter m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. filter

Swedish

Noun

filter n

1. A filter.

Declension

Anagrams

• fertil