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misfilter

misfilter verb: to filter incorrectly.

Verb

misfilter (third-person singular simple present misfilters, present participle misfiltering, simple past and past participle misfiltered)

  1. To filter incorrectly.
    • You have to listen and view objectively in order not to misfilter the interviewee's responses.1962, Benjamin Balinsky, The Selection Interview: Essentials for Management, page 8
    • Like the misguided fear among evolutionists that the Badwin Effect commits the sin of Lamarckism, and Darwin's own precipitous flight from Catastrophism, the indiscriminate rejection of anything that smacks of behaviorism by the "thoroughly modern mentalists" (Fodor 1980) is an instance of...1996, Daniel Clement Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life, page 403

Examples of misfilter in a sentence

  • We have no other filters for screening the truth of being, and the misfiltering of that truth is permanent.2002, Leon Katz, Classical Monologues from Aeschylus to Bernard Shaw, page xx:
  • For example, elevated levels of protein in urine suggest that the kidneys are misfiltering and removing some proteins that the body needs.2004, Robert M. Kaplan, “Behavior As the central Outcome in Health Care”, in William D. Marelich, Dr Jeff S Erger, editors, The Social...

Forms of misfilter

third-person singular presentmisfilters
present participlemisfiltering
past participlemisfiltered
pastmisfiltered

Origin of misfilter

From mis- + filter.

Words that rhyme with misfilter

Questions about misfilter

What does misfilter mean?
Misfilter means to filter incorrectly.
How do you use misfilter in a sentence?
We have no other filters for screening the truth of being, and the misfiltering of that truth is permanent.
What part of speech is misfilter?
Misfilter is a verb.
What is the past tense of misfilter?
The past tense of misfilter is misfiltered.

Words near misfilter in the dictionary

  1. misfills
  2. misfilm
  3. misfilmed
  4. misfilming
  5. misfilms
  6. misfilter
  7. misfiltered
  8. misfiltering
  9. misfilters
  10. misfinger
  11. misfingered

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