filter tip
- noun
- /ˈfɪltər tɪp/
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- He lit his cigarette, enjoying the smooth draw from the filter tip.
Examples
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Her lips, around the tan filter tip, looked like a pair of miniature water beds plastered with glittery blue candy coat.
Fiction book (2000) -
Who was here smoking a filter-tip cigarette, my darling?
Fiction book (1997) -
There were two factory-made filter tips in there, but one was shorter than the other and had blue metallic lipstick on it.
Fiction book (2000) -
She opened her purse—black, shoulder strap, fine leather; I believe it was Tod's—and extracted a pack of Marlboro 100s with a filter tip.
Fiction book (2002) -
For experiments establishing the efficiency of activated carbon filters for Cd removal from mainstream smoke, activated carbon with three different activities was incorporated into a cigarette filter at loadings ranging from 45 to 60 mg per filter tip.
Academic text (2018) -
The filter tip reduces the harshness of the smoke and makes it easier to inhale.
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She always preferred cigarettes with a filter tip for a milder taste while smoking.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'filter' (a device that removes impurities) + 'tip' (the end or extremity): it denotes the tip that contains a filter. This straightforward noun–noun compound follows regular English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand it.
Etymology
Filter tip names the small part at the tip of a cigarette that works like a filter and catches some smoke before you breathe it in. That's why the term means 'a small device at the end of a cigarette that filters smoke before it is inhaled'.
