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Example sentences for "filter"

Lexicographically close words:
filmy; filo; filoselle; filosofia; fils; filterable; filtered; filtering; filters; filth
  1. That filtration of the anthrax liquids through a plaster or other efficient filter renders the filtrate innocuous, while the solids retained in the filter remain infecting (Chauveau, Bert, Toussaint).

  2. In addition to the element of venous stagnation in producing increased transudation, the condition of the filter is of importance.

  3. The absence of any observable changes in the filter leads to the assumption of an increased permeability, of physiological occurrence in certain parts of the body, as the chief feature in the occurrence of increased transudations.

  4. The inference from these experiments is that an increased transudation is more dependent upon conditions of the filter than upon those of blood-pressure.

  5. The layers between animal hunger and the new hunger, filter new experiences of satisfaction or illness, of pleasure or pain, of self-control or abuse.

  6. The real filter of reading is the multiple choice grid, not the satisfaction of immersion in a world brought to life by words.

  7. In return for her kindly care Zephyrin professed himself anxious to fill her filter for her; but this proposal was long-rejected, through the fear that he might spill the water.

  8. One day, however, he brought up two buckets without letting a drop of their contents fall on the stairs, and from that time he replenished the filter every Sunday.

  9. You cannot filter oceans, Monsieur, and the dead fish in them will cause a stink.

  10. But the real things are not brought forward with such a dramatic rush; they filter gradually through a mass of extraneous matter and their quality appears only to a person seeking an absolutely convincing result.

  11. Then he took up a white disc of filter paper; placing this upon a stand he laid the glass upon it and carefully dried both sides, much as one would blot ink from a letter sheet.

  12. An Ashantee filter with a quart tin bottle, to be had from Atkins and Co.

  13. The filter was not made yet, but Lake, Snowdon, & Co.

  14. He propounded a scheme for supplying the poor with a certain excellent filter at a price all but nominal; who did not know the benefit to humble homes of pure water for use as a beverage?

  15. The filter project was put into execution.

  16. Of late the filter manufacturer had begun to strike notes in his conversation which jarred on Sidney's sensibilities, and made him disagreeably suspicious that something more was meant than Joseph cared to put into plain speech.

  17. The child observes that the water passes through the filter paper, that the sponge absorbs water, and that the water clings to the surface of the waterproof.

  18. Or she may take a small glass funnel and put into it a piece of filter paper, then a sponge, then a piece of waterproof cloth.

  19. Boil for 15 minutes in a covered vessel, cool, filter and add water enough to make a liter.

  20. Macerate 10 or 12 days, filter and express, then filter again and evaporate to the consistency of an extract.

  21. Express the residuum, put all the liquid into one vessel, filter and evaporate till reduced to 800 grams, then cool and add the alcohol.

  22. Macerate for twelve hours, filter the liquid and express the macerated drug which is then macerated a second time in 2 1/2 liters of water.

  23. Cotton is used extensively in bacteriological laboratories as a filter of liquids and gases.

  24. Macerate for 24 hours, boil until reduced by half, filter and evaporate the filtrate to a syrupy consistency.

  25. A good filter is a very fine thing for clearing drinking water of hippopotami, crocodiles, water snakes, catfish, etc.

  26. Fill the top half with water, and renew from time to time, and you have a filter which is as effective as the best London made article.

  27. A carbon filter is a tube with a wad of compressed carbon inserted, through which the water is sucked.

  28. But it is better to boil your water whether you filter afterwards or not.

  29. Suffice it to say that my filter looks like common glass.

  30. Naturally, I do not propose to state the formula by means of which I was enabled to construct a filter capable of segregating my beloved Sigma ray from ordinary sunlight.

  31. Perseus, whence my race deriv'd; “Down to the silent shades this solace bear “By such a hand to die.

  32. In such cases the plant will consist of the septic tank, an anaerobic filter and a filter ditch or sand-bed filter.

  33. The effluent from the septic tank enters the anaerobic filter in a chamber, that is separated from the main tank by a wooden grating against which rests the filter material.

  34. The filter may be constructed in any form that will permit the process of filtration to be carried out in a way that will afford good anaerobic action.

  35. An opening C allows the liquid to pass from H into G, where any additional sewage entering H will displace an equal amount in G, which will pass out at B to the filter bed.

  36. Air under pressure is supplied by the pipe C, connected to the air supply, flowing into the thermostat through the filter P, the restriction S, the passage T, and the port G.

  37. This filter ditch is constructed as indicated in longitudinal section.

  38. In such a case the use of the septic tank combined with an anaerobic filter would probably give a permissible degree of purity.

  39. The anaerobic filter is one in which anaerobic bacterial action is given opportunity to reduce the organic matter in the sewage to its elemental condition.

  40. The filter ditch of the plant will be constructed according to the contour of the ground and will follow the natural drainage.

  41. In places where the use of the simple septic tank is not possible and where the character of the soil will not permit of a natural sand-bed filter, an anaerobic filter may be constructed through which to pass the effluent from the septic tank.

  42. It should be expected that such a filter will ultimately need renewing, for this reason the top is made of a slab of reinforced concrete that may be raised to allow the removal and refilling of the filter material.

  43. This will, of course, form an insoluble deposit that will accumulate and in the course of time the filter will become clogged.

  44. The anaerobic filter is a tank, rectangular in cross-section, made with brick walls and cemented on the inside.

  45. The gas escapes from the bell through the pipe S to the filter D, where any dust that may have escaped the washing process is removed by a felt filter.

  46. If this matter is deposited faster than it disintegrates then the filter will fill up and finally refuse to work.

  47. A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.

  48. To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something.

  49. That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration.

  50. A small metallic drying oven, usually of copper, for drying and heating filter papers, precipitates, etc.

  51. Between the rebate and the casement it is a good plan to leave a space of an inch and a half for a movable stretcher-frame holding several layers of "cheese-cloth" to filter the air.

  52. The construction of such an air filter is shown at Fig.

  53. This material often prolongs the workings of the filter presses by collecting the gummy material, which would otherwise gather on the filter cloths.

  54. My subject this evening for forty or fifty minutes' talk is the death of this man, and how that death will really filter into America.

  55. It is a useful plan to keep a filter on every floor of a house; the expense is not very great, while the increased safety is incalculable.

  56. Spencer's patent, or magnetic-carbide, filter is one of the best.

  57. Marking the places of the light-images, we introduce between N and L our ray-filter (not in the figure) and quench the light.

  58. Quenching the light by the ray-filter at F, and placing the pile at P, the totally reflected heat-beam is immediately felt by the pile, and declared by the galvanometric deflection.

  59. In some cases there is a permanent filter of ice-water with a tap in a corner of the car.

  60. In these experiments sewage was made to filter slowly through a certain depth of soil (the time occupied in this filtration being eight days).

  61. Sometimes the land is made to filter large quantities of sewage by special arrangements of drains and ditches.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "filter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bleed; bolt; clarify; clear; colander; condense; cradle; discharge; distill; dribble; drip; drop; effuse; emit; equipment; excrete; extract; exude; filter; gurgle; ooze; parts; percolate; percolator; purifier; purify; rectify; reek; refine; refinery; riddle; rocker; screen; seep; separate; sieve; sift; sifter; spiritualize; strain; strainer; sublimate; sublime; sweat; transpire; trickle; try; weep; winnow