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Filtrate

Definitions: Filtrate

Filtrate

Noun

1. The product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter.

Verb

1. 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)

Specialty Definitions: Filtrate

DomainDefinitions

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.

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Synonyms: Filtrate

Synonyms: filter (v), filter out (v), separate out (v), strain (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Filtrate

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Filtrate

English words defined with "filtrate": Filtrated, Filtratingtumor virus. (references)
Specialty definitions using "filtrate": catalyst-manufacturing operator, CATALYST-RECOVERY OPERATOR, CUPROUS-CHLORIDE OPERATORDEWATERER OPERATORFILTER TENDER, FILTER-PRESS TENDER, HEAD, FILTER-TANK OPERATOR, filtration rateGenter thickenerkiln-head house operatorLEAD-NITRATE PROCESSOR, lead-shop operatorSawyear-Kjellgren process, Scholl's method, SUPERVISOR, STEFFEN HOUSEvacuum filterZinostatin. (references)

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Sounds Captioned with "Filtrate".

PlayCaption
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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Filtrate

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Filtrate

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)66.67%2245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Filtrate

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  filtrate

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Filtrate

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

   

Portuguese

  

chocante (abrupt, amazing, harsh, jarring, knockdown, obnoxious, odium, offensive, outrageous, revolting, shocking, sickening, startling). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se filtra (percolate, perk, strain), lichid filtrat. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

фильтровать (filter, percolate, strain), фильтрат, процеживать (percolate, percolating, strain). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

filtrirati (filter), filtrat. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

filtrarse (leak, leak in, leak out, percolate, permeate, seep, sift), filtrar (filter, Leach, leak, percolate, strain). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

filtrera (filter, Leach, percolate). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

filtreden geçirmek (percolate), süzmek (bolt, clarify, contemplate, drain, eye, filter, infiltrate, Leach, measure, percolate, settle, strain), süzülmüş sıvı. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

фільтрувати (decant, drain, filter, infiltrate, sift), фільтрат, виціджувати. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

phần nước lọc ra, phần lọc. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Filtrate

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).

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Anagrams: Filtrate

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Filtrate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 69 6C 74 72 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101001 01101100 01110100 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 006C 0074 0072 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4075788684678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Sounds
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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