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单词 filterless
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filterlessadj.n.

Brit. /ˈfɪltələs/, U.S. /ˈfɪltərləs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: filter n., -less suffix.
Etymology: < filter n. + -less suffix.
1. Lacking a filter (in various senses of the noun); esp. not fitted or used with a filter.In quot. 1899: designating people whose water supply is unfiltered.
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1899 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Evening Gaz. 28 Feb. 2/2 [They] do not see how the people of Cedar Rapids can drink the..water, after looking at the stream... The filterless populace is longing for the day when the spring freshet will have subsided.
1904 H. O. Klein tr. A. von Hübl Three-colour Photogr. ii. 104 Wet plates cannot be exposed behind these filters, but gelatine plates give a complete picture if the exposure is long enough, without showing much different colour rendering, if compared with filterless exposures.
1915 Bakersfield Californian 12 July 5/5 The nose is the original ‘domestic filter’... A choked nose, through which a person cannot breathe, means that microbes enter the lungs freely by way of the filterless mouth.
1953 Financial Times 25 Sept. 7/7 A simple, robust, filterless centrifugal device which will continuously remove solid particles..from air.
1994 Pop. Sci. Apr. 49/1 When William Conlon saw a magazine photo of an Inuit man melting frozen seawater to drink, it was a moment of divine inspiration—resulting in a clever new filterless water purification system.
2009 M. Findley & L. Formichelli Compl. Idiot's Guide Green Cleaning (ed. 2) ii. 34 Micro-filtration systems are an improvement over filterless systems but are not as effective as a HEPA filter [in a vacuum cleaner].
2. Designating a cigarette without a filter (filter n. 4a); of or relating to such a cigarette. Also occasionally as n.: a filterless cigarette.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [adjective] > type of cigarette
bird's eye1877
gold-tipped1890
mentholated1895
cork-tipped1907
king-size1909
roll-your-own1911
tailor-made1924
filter-tipped1927
king-sized1940
roll-up1948
filterless1956
tipped1964
untipped1968
unfiltered1976
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette > other types of cigarette
Russian cigarette1851
papirosa1856
Egyptian1892
Russian1892
tickler1904
joystick1911
gyppy1920
king-size1920
Sobranie1923
virgin1923
Turk1926
roll-your-own1932
ready roll1949
roll-up1950
filter1956
filterless1956
rollie1964
Virginia1964
untipped1968
primo1986
1956 Business Week 3 Mar. 298 Where 10 years ago the standard cigarette—70 mm. long, filterless—had over 90% of the market, today king sizes..and filters account​ for slightly over 50% between them.
1957 Evening Tribune (Albert Lea, Minnesota) 15 July 1/1 (heading) Pardon me while I light my king-size filterless.
1958 Texas Rep. Biol. & Med. 16 333 Smoke was obtained from standard filterless cigarettes by the use of an automatic smoking machine.
1964 Barron's 5 Oct. 23/3 The concern's regular and king-size brands probably hold something like 55% of the total domestic filterless market.
1994 M. M. Yang Gifts, Favors, & Banquets iii. 128 Filterless local brands..were bought only for personal consumption and were not suitable as gifts.
2008 A. Smith Ghost Med. vi. 73 Carl looked at me, smiling and wincing in the bitterness of his filterless smoke.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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