[
  {
    "word": "filter",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8f\u026alt\u0259/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8f\u026alt\u0259/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8f\u026alt\u025a/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/filter-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=199887",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He runs an email filter to catch the junk mail."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Self-restraint in speech.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He's got no filter, and he's always offending people as a result."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "If (1) the universal set (here, the set of natural numbers) were called a \"large\" set, (2) the superset of any \"large\" set were also a \"large\" set, and (3) the intersection of a pair of \"large\" sets were also a \"large\" set, then the set of all \"large\" sets would form a filter."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": [
          "ideal"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To sort, sift, or isolate.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "This strainer should filter out the large particles."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The leaves of the trees filtered the light."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The water filtered through the rock and soil."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The crowd filtered into the theater."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "filter out"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/filter"
    ]
  }
]