filtrate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Etymology
Origin of filtrate
1605–15; < Medieval Latin filtrātus filtered, past participle of filtrāre. See filter, -ate 1
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The stalactites - hundreds of mineral formations hanging like melted candle wax above us which naturally filtrate the rainwater - are being clogged by cement dust, he says.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
As the filtrate enters the ascending limb, Na+ and Cl- ions exit through ion channels present in the cell membrane.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Further up, sodium is actively transported out of the filtrate, and chlorine ions follow.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
As the filtrate passes down the tubules, nutrients and other solutes are reabsorbed by capillaries.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Add water to the ash, in the platinum dish, heat nearly to boiling, filter through ash-free filter paper, and wash with hot water until the combined filtrate and washings measure to about 60 cc.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
The desire for blast-proof walls, filtrated air and water, and composting toilets is deeply embedded in the national psyche.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2017
This was not acting, but the flashing of a stream where the sunshine reached to its bed; was filtrated through pure, sweet waters.
From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland
After Nevers he was only twenty-four hours ahead of Napoleon and his progress became a triumphant one: newspapers, despatches had filtrated through from Paris—news became authentic, though some of it sounded a little wild.
From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Oh! thou didst well choose thy words, oh daughter of imperial Cæsar, for thy honeyed words were like the nectar which hid the poison that hath filtrated into my daughter's heart.
From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Their conception of national government was still that national legislation filtrated from Congress to the State legislatures, and through that medium to the people.
From Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Albert Bushnell Hart
“That part of the equation, our relationship to nature, is over. But they have a more important job to do – and that’s filtrating water, providing habitat for other animals and building the ecosystem.”
From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2016
Under the new plan, Marines equipped with borrowed helicopters will try to move fast and throw cordons around North Vietnamese in filtrating the area.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the father of one of our friends, he observed, 'He never clarified his notions, by filtrating them through other minds.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
I have frequently alluded to a branch of geography, the importance of which is but recently adequately recognized—the subterranean waters of the earth considered as stationary reservoirs, as flowing currents, and as filtrating fluids.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
Others cleaned it by filtrating, but it went through so slowly that they could ill endure to wait so long, and were loath to lose so much precious liquid.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr
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