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Straining :: Strainer (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid..

Colation :: Colation (n.) The act or process of straining or filtering.

Percolate :: Percolate (v. i.) To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone..

Filter :: Filter (n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air..

Rape :: Rape (n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc..

Filter :: Filter (v. i.) To pass through a filter; to percolate.

Infilter :: Infilter (v. t. & i.) To filter or sift in.

Tared :: Tared (a.) Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates..

Filtering :: Filtering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Filte.

Filter :: Filter (n.) Same as Philter.

Strain :: Strain (a.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth..

Filtration :: Filtration (n.) The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

Clay :: Clay (v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar..

Physeter :: Physeter (n.) A filtering machine operated by air pressure.

Filter :: Filter (n.) To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter..

Infiltering :: Infiltering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Infilte.

Filtrate :: Filtrate (n.) That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration.

Infiltrate :: Infiltrate (v. i.) To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something.

Percolator :: Percolator (n.) One who, or that which, filters..

Filtrate :: Filtrate (v. t.) To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation..

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