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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 verbs? The

  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 particle れ. The …

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

    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 filtration …

  5. Can 'filtered' be ambiguous? - English Language & Usage Stack …

    Thanks for the suggestions. Indeed "filtered in" seems quite strange, perhaps "filtered through" at best, but avoiding "filtered" at all seems to be a more reasonable solution.

  6. 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"?

  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 category? A user …

  8. 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 is, the algorithm is a …

  9. What's a word for the shape of the space among the trees in a forest?

    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) usually …

  10. Difference in "capable" and "able" - English Language & Usage Stack ...

    There is a difference between being "able to do something" and being "capable of doing something", as the sentence illustrates: Everyone is able to kill, but not everyone is capable of murder. however, …