different between trickle vs filter

English

Etymology

Originally of tears; from strickle, frequentative of to strike, by elision (probably because tears trickle is easier to pronounce than tears strickle).

For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, umpire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??k?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Noun

trickle (plural trickles)

1. A very thin river.

   The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.

2. A very thin flow; the act of trickling.

   The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

   • 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa

     The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.

Translations

Verb

trickle (third-person singular simple present trickles, present participle trickling, simple past and past participle trickled)

1. (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.

   The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.

2. (intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.

   Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
3. (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.

Derived terms

• trickle truth

Translations

Anagrams

• tickler

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