1. filter - Noun
2. filter - Verb
3. Filter - Proper noun
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.
To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.
To pass through a filter; to percolate.
Same as Philter.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea. Jean Baudrillard
We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer. Murray Walker
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. Arianna Huffington
Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid. Ray Comfort
There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing. Tori Amos
The reason propaganda works is that most people are too involved or too stupid to recognize it as propaganda. People claim to understand the bias and filter it out, but that's absurd. Of course they don't. Ann Coulter