Meaning

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

    Near-synonym: sieve

    Sieb

    си́тоsýto

  2. (rare)One who sifts.

    He was employed as a sifter.

    Sieber

  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.

More definitions
  • a household sieve (as for flour)

Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
tool for sifting:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
tool for sifting:
one who sifts:

Origin

From sift + -er.

From sift + -er.

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Forms

plural: sifters
Singularsifter
Pluralsifters

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

2 related words
Relatedsift
Derivedplansifter

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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