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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. 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.

  4. 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 …

  5. "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 …

  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. What is the difference between 'make decision' and 'take decision'?

    The former are (at time of writing) all about formal decisions (by governments, official bodies, international committees etc); the latter - once quotes from US politicians are filtered out - mostly …

  8. What is the term for when you become more aware of something?

    Feb 21, 2014 · You probably just filtered the word out previously, but now you've become aware of it. How do you describe the phenomenon when you become more aware of something after an initial or …

  9. "One of one found item (s)"? - English Language & Usage Stack …

    When talking about a subset of a filtered list of items, what is the proper way to pluralize finding only one item in the filtered set? Ex. 10 of 50 found items 1 of 25 found items 1 of 1...

  10. Why did the Old English word "līċ" get displaced by "corpse"?

    Oct 28, 2020 · 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 …