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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 …

  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. "Filter by" or "filter according to"? - English Language & Usage …

    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 …

  5. 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 …

  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 - …

  8. 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 …

  9. formality - Formal way to tell someone they accidentally sent you ...

    I have received an email from someone at work. He’s quite senior and probably would get quite angry to get an “accusing” message like: I wasn’t supposed to get this email. It looks like you …

  10. "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...