FILTRATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("filtrate" is a kind of...):

fluid (a substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure)

product (a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "filtrate"):

percolate (the product of percolation)

Derivation:

filter; filtrate (remove by passing through a filter)

Present simple: I / you / we / they filtrate ... he / she / it filtrates

Past simple: filtrated

Past participle: filtrated

-ing form: filtrating

Meaning:

Remove by passing through a filter

Example:

filter out the impurities

Synonyms:

filter; filter out; filtrate; separate out; strain

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "filtrate" is one way to...):

separate (divide into components or constituents)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

filter (device that removes something from whatever passes through it)

filtrate (the product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter)