sifter

English

Etymology

sift +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪftɚ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sifter (plural sifters)

1. A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.

   Near-synonym: sieve

2. (rare) One who sifts.

   He was employed as a sifter.

3. Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose, so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamellae of the beak.

Derived terms

• sugar sifter

Translations

tool for sifting

• Finnish: seula (fi)
• German: Sieb (de) n
• Irish: criathar m, criathradóir m, scagaire m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sil (no) m

• Polish: sito (pl) n, arfa (pl) f, przesiewacz m
• Spanish: colador (es) m
• Ukrainian: си́то n (sýto)

one who sifts

• German: Sieber (de) m
• Ottoman Turkish: قلبورجی (kalburcu), الكجی (elekci)
• Turkish: kalburcu (tr), elekçi (tr)

Anagrams

• Fister, efrits, firest, firste, fister, freits, refits, resift, rifest, strife