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prefilter en · NOUN

Etymology

From pre- + filter.

Meanings

1. A filter used in advance.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
pre-filter		alternative	lexicographic
prefilters	Number=Plur		lexicographic

prefilter en · VERB

Etymology

From pre- + filter.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To filter in advance.
   • Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends. 2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian:
   • The prefiltered data was fed to a computer program for analysis.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
prefiltered	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
prefiltered	Tense=Past		lexicographic
pre-filter		alternative	lexicographic
prefilters	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
prefiltering	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic