filter out
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Verb edit
filter out (third-person singular simple present filters out, present participle filtering out, simple past and past participle filtered out)
- (transitive) To selectively remove part of something.
- The sieve will filter out large rocks and grains of sand.
- The brain automatically filters out useless information.
- (intransitive) To come out gradually (e.g. news).
- 1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 177:
- The story of last winter's unprecedented snowstorms in Great Britain is slowly filtering out.
Translations edit
To selectively remove part of something
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