Trickle
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A very thin river. A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
Example sentence: I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.
Filter
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.A proper subset of a poset A, which subset includes an element less than both of every pair of its members, and includes every element more than each of its members.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To sort, sift, or isolate.To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
Example sentence: The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.