Filter vs. Strain — What's the Difference?

A porous material through which a liquid or gas is passed in order to separate the fluid from suspended particulate matter.

To pull, draw, or stretch tight

A device containing such a material, especially one used to extract impurities from air or water.

(Physics) To cause distortion of (a body's parts or shape) by applying an external force; deform.

Any of various electric, electronic, acoustic, or optical devices used to reject signals, vibrations, or radiations of certain frequencies while allowing others to pass.

To exert, use, or tax to the utmost

A colored glass or other transparent material used to select the wavelengths of light allowed to reach a photosensitive material.

To injure or impair by overuse or overexertion; wrench

(Computers) A program or device that blocks email or restricts website access when specific criteria are met.

To damage or weaken by pressure or tension

(Informal) The ability or tendency to censor oneself, as to avoid causing embarrassment or offense

To force beyond the proper or reasonable limit

To pass (a liquid or gas) through a filter.

To pass (a liquid) through a filtering agent such as a strainer.

To remove by passing through a filter

To draw off or remove by filtration

(Computers) To use a filter to block or restrict access to

(Archaic) To embrace or clasp tightly; hug.

(Informal) To censor (oneself), as to avoid causing embarrassment or offense.

To make strong or steady efforts; strive hard

To pass through or as if through a filter

To contract or exert one's muscles to the utmost.

To come or go gradually and in small groups

To pull or push forcibly or violently

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.

To be or become wrenched or twisted

Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.

To be subjected to great stress

Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.

To pass through a filtering agent

(figurative) self-restraint in speech.

The act of straining.

A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).

The state of being strained

(photography) A translucent object placed in the light path of a camera to remove certain wavelengths (colors), or a computer program that simulates such an effect.

Extreme or laborious effort, exertion, or work

(transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.

A great or excessive demand or stress on one's body, mind, or resources

(transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.

The state of being subjected to such demands or stresses

(intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.

A wrench, twist, or other physical injury resulting from excessive tension, effort, or use.

(intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.

(Physics) Any of several kinds of deformation of the dimensions of a body when subjected to stress, as axial strain or elastic strain.

(intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road

An exceptional degree or pitch

Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air.

A group of bacteria or viruses that are genetically distinct from other groups of the same species.

Same as Philter.

A group of cultivated plants or domestic animals of the same species that have distinctive characteristics but are not considered a separate breed or variety.

To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.

The collective descendants of a common ancestor; a race, stock, line, or breed.

To pass through a filter; to percolate.

Any of the various lines of ancestry united in an individual or a family; ancestry or lineage.

Device that removes something from whatever passes through it

A kind or sort

An electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it

An inborn or inherited tendency or character

Remove by passing through a filter;

An inherent quality; a streak

Pass through;

The tone, tenor, or substance of a verbal utterance or of a particular action or behavior

Run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream;

Often strains(Music) A passage of expression; a tune or an air

A passage of poetic and especially lyrical expression.

An outburst or a flow of eloquent or impassioned language.

(archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.

(biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.

(figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.

Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.

Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.

(rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).

(obsolete) Treasure.

(obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.

The act of straining, or the state of being strained.

A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.

An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.

A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.

(obsolete) The track of a deer.

(obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.

To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.

To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.

To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.

To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.

To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.

(transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander

(intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.

To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.

To urge with importunity; to press.

(transitive) hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.

(obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.

Rank; a sort.

A cultural subvariety that is only slightly differentiated.

The act of straining, or the state of being strained.

A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.

A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.

A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress.

Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career.

Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain.

To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument.

To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.

To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.

To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.

To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.

To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.

To squeeze; to press closely.

To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.

To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.

To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.

To make violent efforts.

To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.

(physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces

Difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension;

A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence;

(psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress;

A special variety of domesticated animals within a species;

(biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups;

A lineage or race of people

Injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain

Pervading note of an utterance;

An effortful attempt to attain a goal

An intense or violent exertion

The act of singing;

To exert much effort or energy;

Test the limits of;

Use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity;

Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;

Make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;

Stretch or force to the limit;

Remove by passing through a filter;

Rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender;

Alter the shape of (something) by stress;