filter
English → French/ˈfɪltəʳ/
1 noun
filtre masculine
2 transitive verb
[+ liquids] filtrer, [+ air] purifier
3 intransitive verb
[light, liquid, sound] filtrer
- a little daylight filtered through the cellar grating un peu de jour filtrait à travers la grille de la cave
- to filter back [people] revenir par petits groupes
4 compounds
▸ filter cigarette noun
cigarette (à bout) filtre feminine
▸ filter coffee noun
café filtre masculine
▸ filter paper noun
(de feux de signalisation) papier filtre masculine
▹ filter in intransitive verb
- news of the massacre began to filter in des nouvelles du massacre ont commencé à filtrer
▹ filter through intransitive verb
[light] filtrer
- the news filtered through at last la nouvelle a fini par transpirer