Verb (used with object) : The thick leaves filtered the sunlight. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : Enemy agents managed to filter into the embattled country. From Dictionary.com.
Bore a hole in the lower part of the cask with a gimlet, receiving the liquid stream which follows in the bottle and filterer, which is placed in a tub or basin. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
Should I call her a "filterer" instead?. From Wordnik.com. [The Stats Are In: No Global Cooling | Universe Today] Reference
"There's only water in the tap; the filterer is broke.". From Wordnik.com. [A Crooked Path A Novel] Reference
Yeah, that Katie Couric sure is a manipulator, and like, a filterer. From Wordnik.com. [Rantings of a Sandmonkey] Reference
"I'm glad to be running against Steve Conroy, the internet filterer," Patten said. From Wordnik.com. [iTnews Australia] Reference
They're probably the world's leading deep packet filterer, unbeknownst to most people. From Wordnik.com. [iTnews Australia] Reference
Crutchely, moreover, had a filterer for the cabin, and through it all the water used there was habitually passed. From Wordnik.com. [The Crater] Reference
The company sells a spam-blocker / filterer called make a marketing appeal to eco-conscious consumers by touting greenness. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
Accidentally this filterer stood in a draught, and the quart or two of water that had not yet evaporated was cool and palatable; that is, cool for a ship and such. From Wordnik.com. [The Crater] Reference
In the first place, it is essential that the coffee be of the finest quality obtainable; secondly, better results are obtained by using the French filterer, or coffee bag. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
Of food and water he had a sufficiency, the filterer and a bread-bag being quite near him, and he helped himself often from the first, in particular; a single mouthful of the ship's biscuit commonly proving more than he could swallow, even after it was softened in the water. From Wordnik.com. [The Crater] Reference
What it does is search a directory, file, module, or package for importable python files, attempts to import them and then searches them for classes that implement the ISprinke interface and then, if a specific filterer has been provided -- usually one of your interface's implementedBy method, it will make sure the item passes that filter as well. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
As soon as she was old enough to read, India was drafted into service as her mother’s official “filterer.”. From Wordnik.com. [One Flight Up] Reference
It's a filterer, "says MacIsaac, a biologist at the University of Windsor in Ontario. From Wordnik.com. [JSOnline.com] Reference
Yeah, a filterer. From Wordnik.com. [Rantings of a Sandmonkey] Reference
6 -- Platow's filterer. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
This operation is one of the most important in the whole process; from the clarifier it is run through an animal charcoal filterer, which, by its chemical properties, purifies it; from the filterer it runs into a tank, whence it is pumped up above the condensers, i.e., tubes, about fifteen in number, laid horizontally, one above the other, and containing the steam from the vacuum pans. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
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