Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus for extracting dust, smoke, microscopic germs, etc., from the air.
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Examples
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They took apart film equipment, my dashboard, the lining of the van, opened the hood, took out the air-filter, and went through every personal item that I own.
Bil Browning: Indiana State Police Intimidate and Search Gay Rights Activist 2009
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More modern M-1A1 tanks, with integral anti-CW air-filter systems, are being shipped to the Persian Gulf from Western Europe where they had been prepositioned against the Soviet Union.
The Wrong Tanks 2008
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So Oak Ridge is running its own air-filter tests this year.
Pain Relief 2008
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And in Mexico City last week, scientists began testing mobile air-filter units they hope will Hoover pollution particles out of the capital's filthy air.
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Pieces inside the water heater can move around during transport, causing an air-filter door switch to malfunction, according to the CPSC.
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Pieces inside the water heater can move around during transport, causing an air-filter door switch to malfunction, according to the CPSC.
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Also, I'd have thought her filter would be more correctly called a water-filter (that which filters water), not an air-filter (that which filters air).
HH Com 436 Miss Snark 2006
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However, perhaps she actually normally breathes via water and yet lives above-ground - in which case airtight and air-filter would be correct.
HH Com 436 Miss Snark 2006
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If so, I might be able to improve things by investing in some of the various strange air-filter contraptions you can buy.
Me versus the spores. bradamant 2004
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The CB Twister deploys a viscous type air-filter unit for good breathing, while its silencer-mounted catalytic converter launders emissions.
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