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Definitions: Filtrate |
FiltrateNoun1. The product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter. Verb1. Remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "filtrate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1905. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Environment | A liquid or gas that has been filtered. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The liquid product from the filtration process. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FiltrateSynonyms: filter (v), filter out (v), separate out (v), strain (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge, deterge; decrassify; clear, purify; depurate, despumate, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack; filter, filtrate; drain, strain. |
Egress | Exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; (water in motion); effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Filtrate |
| English words defined with "filtrate": Filtrated, Filtrating ♦ tumor virus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "filtrate": catalyst-manufacturing operator, CATALYST-RECOVERY OPERATOR, CUPROUS-CHLORIDE OPERATOR ♦ DEWATERER OPERATOR ♦ FILTER TENDER, FILTER-PRESS TENDER, HEAD, FILTER-TANK OPERATOR, filtration rate ♦ Genter thickener ♦ kiln-head house operator ♦ LEAD-NITRATE PROCESSOR, lead-shop operator ♦ Sawyear-Kjellgren process, Scholl's method, SUPERVISOR, STEFFEN HOUSE ♦ vacuum filter ♦ Zinostatin. (references) |
| Play | Caption |
| Bubbles; bubble; glug; glugging; bleed; bubble; charge; drain; drip; exude; filter; filtrate; impregnate; leach; ooze; pass through; penetrate; perk; permeate; pervade; saturate; strain; sweat; transfuse; transude; weep. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The vaccine is a cell-free filtrate vaccine, which means it contains no dead or live bacteria in the preparation. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Filtrate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Filtrate" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
filtrate | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "filtrate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | filtroj (decant, filter, percolate, strain), filtrat, kulloj (clarify, decant, defecate, drain, exude, filter, infiltrate, Leach, percolate, seep, strain, stream). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تصفية (close out, combing, defecation, filtering, filtration, go into liquidation, liquidation, refinement), صفى (clarify, clear, close out, colander, comb out, defecate, determine, do away with, filter, leach, liquidate, lixiviate, mop up, polish off, refine, run, sell off, strain, uncloud, wipe out), رشح (basing, distil, filter, infiltrate, leach, leak, leakage, lixiviate, nominate, ooze, ooze away, percolate, secrete, seep, still, sweat, transpiration, transpire, trickle), شىء مرشح. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | филтрат, филтрирана течност, филтрирам (filter, infiltrate, percolate, sieve, strain), пречиствам (baptize, defecate, purify, rarefy, rectify, scavenge, scrub, spiritualize, sublimate, subtilize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 滤出液, 濾液 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | filtrovat (filter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tumor-filtrat (tumorous tissue filtrate), pantothensyre (chick antidermatitis factor, filtrate factor, panthothenic acid, pantothenic acid), glomerulusfiltrat (glomerular filtrate), betegnelsen annulus refererer her til den zone med forholdsvis kraftig maetning med formationsvand,som er opdaemmet som foelge af fortraengningen foraarsaget af borevaeskefiltratet (banked up by the displacing mud filtrate, the term annulus pertains to the zone of relatively high formation water saturation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pantotheenzuur (chick antidermatitis factor, filtrate factor, panthothenic acid, pantothenic acid), glomerulusfiltraat (glomerular filtrate), de term annulaire ruimte heeft betrekking op de door zich verdringend spoelingfiltraat opgestuwde zone waar de verzadiging met water uit de formatie tamelijk hoog is (banked up by the displacing mud filtrate, the term annulus pertains to the zone of relatively high formation water saturation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | filtraatti, suodos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | filtrat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | filtrieren (filter, filtering, filtration, percolate), filtern (drain, filter, filtering, filtration, Leach, percolate, to drain, to filtrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σουρώνω (strain), διυλίζω (distil, distill, filter, percolate, refine), διήθημα (infiltrate, permeate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לס ן (filter, percolate, sieve, sift, strain, strain off, winnow), תס ין (percolate), ס ן (colature). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szivárog (bled, leak, ooze, seep, to bleed, to distil, to distill, to dribble, to exude, to leak, to trickle, to weep, trickle, wept), szüredék, szûr (filter, purify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | filtrare (filter, ooze, percolate, seep, sink, strain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shollaneys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iltratefay chocante (abrupt, amazing, harsh, jarring, knockdown, obnoxious, odium, offensive, outrageous, revolting, shocking, sickening, startling). (various references) se filtra (percolate, perk, strain), lichid filtrat. (various references) фильтровать (filter, percolate, strain), фильтрат, процеживать (percolate, percolating, strain). (various references) filtrirati (filter), filtrat. (various references) filtrarse (leak, leak in, leak out, percolate, permeate, seep, sift), filtrar (filter, Leach, leak, percolate, strain). (various references) filtrera (filter, Leach, percolate). (various references) filtreden geçirmek (percolate), süzmek (bolt, clarify, contemplate, drain, eye, filter, infiltrate, Leach, measure, percolate, settle, strain), süzülmüş sıvı. (various references) фільтрувати (decant, drain, filter, infiltrate, sift), фільтрат, виціджувати. (various references) phần nước lọc ra, phần lọc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "filtrate": filtrated, filtrates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "filtrate": infiltrate, ultrafiltrate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "filtrate": infiltrated, infiltrates, ultrafiltrates. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: fattier, flatter, flitter, tertial. | |
-2 letters: attire, falter, fatter, ferial, fetial, filter, fitter, latter, lifter, litter, ratite, rattle, retail, retial, tailer, tilter, titfer, trifle. | |
-3 letters: afire, afrit, after, alert, alter, ariel, artel, atilt, farle, feral, feria, fetal, filar, filer, filet, flair, flare, flier, flirt, flite, frail, fritt, irate, later, latte, lifer, liter, litre, ratel. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-l-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: filtrated, filtrates. | |
+2 letters: flatteries, flattering, infiltrate, rijsttafel, trifoliate. | |
+3 letters: felicitator, infiltrated, infiltrates, rijsttafels. | |
+4 letters: featherlight, felicitators, flatteringly, fluidextract, frontalities, infiltrative, interfaculty, trifoliolate, ultraleftism, ultraleftist, unflattering. | |
+5 letters: antifertility, fertilization, filterability, fluidextracts, tetrafluoride, ultrafiltrate, ultraleftisms, ultraleftists. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 6C 74 72 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. .-.. - .-. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01101100 01110100 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i l t r a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 006C 0074 0072 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4075788684678671 |
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