What part of speech is filtering?

Filtering can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. filtering is a verb, gerund of filter (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does filtering mean?

Definitions

Verb

filter - remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"
filter - pass through; "Water permeates sand easily"
filter - run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in"

Examples of filtering

#   Sentence  
1. verb I'm not filtering your tea.
2. verb Operating above Earth, free from the blurring and filtering effects of our planet’s atmosphere, Hubble can resolve astronomical objects ten to twenty times better than typically possible with large ground-based telescopes.
3. verb In 2012 Cornell University contracted with Facebook to conduct a psychological experiment on unconsenting users, filtering positive messages out of the feeds of one group and negative messages out of those of another.
4. verb Filter out the impurities.
Sentence  
verb
I'm not filtering your tea.
Operating above Earth, free from the blurring and filtering effects of our planet’s atmosphere, Hubble can resolve astronomical objects ten to twenty times better than typically possible with large ground-based telescopes.
In 2012 Cornell University contracted with Facebook to conduct a psychological experiment on unconsenting users, filtering positive messages out of the feeds of one group and negative messages out of those of another.
Filter out the impurities.

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