filter
fil ter
- n device that removes something from whatever passes through it
- n an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
- v remove by passing through a filter
filter out the impurities - v pass through
- v run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
- Just eight months after proudly announcing its support of the Strickman cigarette filterfor which it received a major financial interest in returnColumbia University last .
- When heavy cigarette smoking was first indicted as the major cause of the radical increase in lung cancer, scarcely more than 1% of cigarettes had filter tips.
- Do cigarette filters cut down on the tar and nicotine that have helped to earn tobacco its unpleasant reputation as a cause of lung cancer, heart disease and assorted other ills?.