FILTRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does filtrate mean? 

• FILTRATE (noun)
  The noun FILTRATE has 1 sense:

1. the product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter

  Familiarity information: FILTRATE used as a noun is very rare.

• FILTRATE (verb)
  The verb FILTRATE has 1 sense:

1. remove by passing through a filter

  Familiarity information: FILTRATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILTRATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("filtrate" is a kind of...):

fluid (a substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure)

product (a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "filtrate"):

percolate (the product of percolation)

Derivation:

filter; filtrate (remove by passing through a filter)

• FILTRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they filtrate    ... he / she / it filtrates   
Past simple: filtrated   
Past participle: filtrated   
-ing form: filtrating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove by passing through a filter

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

filter; filter out; filtrate; separate out; strain

Context example:

filter out the impurities

Hypernyms (to "filtrate" is one way to...):

separate (divide into components or constituents)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

filter (device that removes something from whatever passes through it)

filtrate (the product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter)

 Context examples 

Mannitol is freely filtered by the glomerulus and poorly reabsorbed from the renal tubule, thereby causing an increase in osmolarity of the glomerular filtrate.

(Mannitol, NCI Thesaurus)

A nondefective ecotropic retrovirus that was originally reported to induce myeloid leukemia in some strains of mice; isolated from filtrates of transplantable tumors; a species of gammaretrovirus.

(Graffi Murine Leukemia Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

Activation of MR also leads to increased expression of Na+/K+-ATPase, thus causing a net increase in sodium uptake from the renal filtrate.

(Aldosterone-Regulated Sodium Reabsorption Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

To test the functionality of the new structures, the team used Dextran — a fluorescent protein which stains the urine-like substance produced when nephrons filter the blood, called glomerular filtrate.

(Scientists Create Functioning Kidney Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A culture filtrate of cells of Candida Albicans propagated in a chemically defined medium and used as a recall antigen to evaluate cellular immunity in infection, cancer, and other disease states.

(Candida Albicans Skin Test Reagent, NCI Thesaurus)

The Dextran was tracked and detected in the new structures' tubules, demonstrating that filtrate was indeed being produced and excreted as urine.

(Scientists Create Functioning Kidney Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)