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Filter Impurities Liquid Chaff Medieval Latin Filtrum N

单词 filter
音标 ['filtə]
解释 n.滤纸;v.过滤
红宝书 【英】 过滤器(device used to hold back any solid material or impurities in a liquid or gas passed through it)过滤(pass liquid, light through a filter)
【考】 winnow : chaff / filter : impurities(扬谷去除谷壳/过滤 去除杂质)
【例】 It won't take long to filter the coffee.
字源 filter (n.)
early 15c., from Old French filtre and directly from Medieval Latin filtrum "felt," which was used to strain impurities from liquid, from West Germanic *filtiz (see felt (n.)). Of cigarettes, from 1908.
filter (v.)
1570s, from Medieval Latin filtrare, from filtrum (see filter (n.)). The figurative sense is from 1830. Related: Filtered; filtering.
不择手段背单词 n. 过滤器; 滤光器; v 过滤(液体或气体)
【记】fil丝, ter表示东西-用丝编织的东西-过滤器
【类】winnow: chaff = filter: impurities 扬谷去除谷壳 = 过滤去除杂质
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