Definition of "filtered" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of filter. (verb)

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• "“It meant people, not in the mass but individuals, who did me the honor of inviting me into their homes; people to whom I was no longer a name filtered through the wordage of imaginative press agents, but a person whom they knew.”"
• "I see Facebook as an experiment in "filtered connections" in social networking."
• "There is only one unexpected benefit of this otherwise noxious weed: its roots and leaves concentrate within them substantial amounts of polluting heavy metals which they have filtered from the lake."