sifter

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Etymology

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English sift

English -er

English sifter

From sift + -er.

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)

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

• plansifter
• sugar sifter

Translations

tool for sifting

• Bulgarian: сито (bg) n (sito)
• Catalan: cernedor m
• 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)
• Unami: pawënikàn

one who sifts

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Sieber (de) m
• Turkish: kalburcu (tr), elekçi (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: قلبورجی (kalburcu), الكجی (elekci)

Anagrams

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