What Is a Filtered Coffee and How It Compares to Cold Brew - Wholesale Market Hub
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
I do not find any examples of this usage of filter as a verb with the preposition ‘in’ in OED online (subscription needed) and am not even familiar with ‘filter in’ in relation to traffic, although it may be exclusively US usage. I would therefore avoid the term in the context indicated, and use a construction without the preposition, e.g. The set was filtered to leave only the prime ...
Is the filtered-list "the 'new' list of what was filtered out" or "the 'old' list that remains after all the filter-removals"?
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 noun.
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 interstices ; An intervening space, especially a very small one "sunshine filtered through the interstices of the arching trees"
Līċ still survives in lych-gate, now probably its only use, and apart from some gamers I doubt that people actually know that lych means "corpse". Many French terms came over with the Norman Conquest and filtered down from court to peasant.
