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Leaching vs Filtering - What's the difference?

leaching | filtering |

As verbs the difference between leaching and filtering

is that leaching is while filtering is .

As nouns the difference between leaching and filtering

is that leaching is the process by which something is leached while filtering is something that passes through a filter.

leaching

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process by which something is leached.
  • * 2012 , Brian Morse, Cold Regions Engineering 2012
    • The leachings were performed in a controlled atmosphere chamber in four different steps
  • Liquid that leaches.
  • * Popular Science
    • One set of plants was watered with distilled water, while to the other set was added in addition small amounts of leachings , containing only a trace of nitrogen, from a cultivated field.

    filtering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that passes through a filter.
  • * 1819 , Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia
    • the filterings from the subsoils
  • * 2006 , Christopher Rush, To Travel Hopefully (page 146)
    • Waking up in Langogne in a dim dawn, I felt in a strange sort of way more at home than I'd been for a long time in my own sadly altered version of home, even a year on from her death – especially in the first filterings of daylight

    Synonyms

    * filtrate