FILTER OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does filter out mean? 

• FILTER OUT (verb)
  The verb FILTER OUT has 1 sense:

1. remove by passing through a filter

  Familiarity information: FILTER OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILTER OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove by passing through a filter

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

filter; filter out; filtrate; separate out; strain

Context example:

filter out the impurities

Hypernyms (to "filter out" is one way to...):

separate (divide into components or constituents)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

In addition, some diseases — such as malaria, leukemia, and lymphomas — may cause enlargement of the spleen and lead it to filter out not only abnormal cells but also healthy red blood cells.

(How the spleen keeps blood healthy, NIH)

A set of three pairs of oppositely charged rods that are used in a mass spectrometer to filter out ions by focusing them in the center of the set of poles so that the radio frequency wave passed along the rods can propagate the ions from one end of the rods to the other.

(Hexapole, NCI Thesaurus)