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  1. What is the difference between "filtrated" and "filtered"?

    The word "filtered" seems to be much more common than "filtrated". I know that these words derive from "to filter" and "to filtrate". What is the difference in meaning between these two …

  2. Filter by or with? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Jun 4, 2017 · Use by. With suggests the agent by which you will filter (or alternatively, the type of list you want to filter), rather than the criterion.

  3. single word requests - English equivalent of komorebi (木漏れ日 ...

    Jun 27, 2014 · Is there an English equivalent of komorebi (木漏れ日), which means the sunshine filtering through the leaves of a tree (or trees)? It is made up of three kanji and the hiragana …

  4. "Filter by" or "filter according to"? - English Language & Usage …

    Feb 20, 2018 · trier has another translation of "to sort" in which case "sort by" is much more common than "sort according to". The verb "to filter" has a more passive meaning in which the …

  5. Usage of "filter in" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Nov 30, 2022 · I do not find any examples of this usage of filter as a verb with the preposition ‘in’ in OED online (subscription needed) and am not even familiar with ‘filter in’ in relation to traffic, …

  6. What's a word for the shape of the space among the trees in a …

    Jan 18, 2017 · 47 The word "interstice" comes to mind. I'm a biology graduate and we referred to the space between the body's tissues as the interstitial space. Interstice — ODO (noun) …

  7. food - If I were to place Dine-in, Takeaway, and Delivery into a ...

    Nov 23, 2017 · This list of restaurants can be filtered by cuisine, features etc. I want this list to be able to filtered by dine-in, takeaway, delivery. What would be an appropriate name for this …

  8. Is there a word for the selective removal of items from a list (other ...

    Jun 21, 2020 · Is the filtered-list "the 'new' list of what was filtered out" or "the 'old' list that remains after all the filter-removals"?

  9. meaning - Sieve vs filter? Are they opposites? - English Language ...

    Sep 5, 2014 · I've always understood "Eratosthenes' sieve" metaphorically to be an object; Eratosthenes constructed a sieve, and it is this sieve through which numbers are filtered. That …

  10. Why did the Old English word "līċ" get displaced by "corpse"?

    Oct 28, 2020 · Līċ still survives in lych-gate, now probably its only use, and apart from some gamers I doubt that people actually know that lych means "corpse". Many French terms came …