strainer

English

A kitchen strainer (1).

A sink strainer (2).

Etymology

From Middle English strener, streynour, strenyour, equivalent to strain +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)

Noun

strainer (plural strainers)

1. A device through which a liquid is passed for purification, filtering or separation from solid matter; anything (including a screen or a cloth) used to strain a liquid.

   Synonym: sile

2. A perforated screen or openwork (usually at the end of a suction pipe of a pump), used to prevent solid bodies from mixing in a liquid stream or flowline.
3. One who strains.
   • 2008, Kirby I. Bland, Michael G. Sarr, Markus W. Büchler, General Surgery: Principles and International Practice, page 843:

     An important factor with respect to recurrence [of rectal prolapse] is the fact that many of these patients are chronic strainers.

Synonyms

• sieve
• sile
• temse

Translations

utensil

• Bikol Central: sernian
• Bulgarian: цедка (bg) f (cedka)
• Catalan: colador (ca) m
• Chinese:
• Dutch: filter (nl) m or n, vergiet (nl) n
• Esperanto: kribrilo (eo)
• Finnish: siivilä (fi)
• French: filtre (fr) m
• Georgian: თუშფალანგი (tušpalangi)
• German: Sieb (de) n; Durchschlag (de) m
• Icelandic: sigti n
• Irish: síothlán m
• Italian: colino (it) m, colatoio m
• Japanese: 濾過器 (ja) (ろかき, rokaki), ストレーナー (sutorēnā)
• Latin: cōlum n
• Macedonian: це́далка f (cédalka), це́дилка f (cédilka)
• Malayalam: അരിപ്പ (ml) (arippa)
• Mandarin: 濾器／滤器 (zh) (lǜqì), 滤器 (zh) (lǜqì), 過濾器／过滤器 (zh) (guòlǜqì), 过滤器 (zh) (guòlǜqì), 網濾／网滤, 网滤 (wǎnglǜ), 笊籬／笊篱 (zh) (zhàoli)
• Maori: tātari
• Occitan: filtre (oc) m, colador m, mancha (oc) f
• Ottoman Turkish: الك‎ (elek), قالبور‎ (kalbur), سوزگج‎ (süzgec), غربال‎ (girbal)
• Persian: ماشوب‎ (mâšub)
• Plautdietsch: Säw n
• Polish: sito (pl) n, cedzak (pl) m
• Portuguese: peneira (pt) f
• Romanian: strecurătoare (ro) f
• Russian: си́то (ru) n (síto), фильтр (ru) m (filʹtr), си́течко (ru) n (sítečko) (small one, e.g. tea strainer), дуршла́г (ru) m (duršlág) (colander)
• Scottish Gaelic: sìoltachan m
• Serbo-Croatian: цедило n, cedilo (sh) n, цједило n, cjedilo (sh) n
• Slovak: sito (sk) n, cedidlo n
• Spanish: colador (es) m, filtro (es) m
• Swedish: sil (sv) c, filter (sv) n, durkslag (sv) n, sikt (sv) c
• Tagalog: salaan
• Turkish: süzgeç (tr)
• Waray-Waray: saraan

Anagrams

• arrestin, restrain, retrains, terrains, trainers, transire