Penetrate vs Filter - What's the difference?
penetrate | filter |
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
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(figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
* Ray
To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
* M. Arnold
To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus. (rfex)
A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
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(mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
To sort, sift, or isolate.
* This strainer should filter out the large particles.
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To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
* The leaves of the trees filtered the light.
To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
* The water filtered through the rock and soil.
To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
* The crowd filtered into the theater.
To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
* I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering .
As verbs the difference between penetrate and filter
is that penetrate is to enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce while filter is to sort, sift, or isolate.As a noun filter is
a device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.penetrate
English
(Penetration)Verb
(penetrat)- Light penetrates darkness.
- I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.
- things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate
- to penetrate one's heart with pity
- The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* penetration * penetrableExternal links
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English
Noun
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- The collection of cofinite subsets of ''?'' is a filter under inclusion: it includes the intersection of every pair of its members, and includes every superset of every cofinite set.
- If (1) the universal set (here, the set of natural numbers) were called a "large" set, (2) the superset of any "large" set were also a "large" set, and (3) the intersection of a pair of "large" sets were also a "large" set, then the set of all "large" sets would form a filter .
