FILTER - Definition & Meaning for Kids
Meaning 1
Part of speech: Verb
remove by passing through a filter
Example: filter out the impurities
Categories: Separate
📖 Fun Facts About Filter
- • A filter is something that separates what you want from what you don’t, like a coffee filter or photo filter.
Meaning 2
Part of speech: Noun
an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
Categories: Electrical device
Synonyms
Permeate, Trickle, Filter out, Percolate, Sink in
🌱 Word Origin (Etymology)
The word "filter" comes from Proto-West Germanic *felt. It started in Frankish *filtir. Then it appeared in Medieval Latin filtrum. Later, people used it in Middle English filtre. Many other languages have similar words:.
- Old French: feutre
🧩 Fun Fact
Each language in this chain added phonetic changes that transformed the original sound.