"sifter" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsɪftɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sifter.wav [Southern-England] Forms: sifters [plural]
Etymology: sift + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sift|er}} sift + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} sifter (plural sifters)
  1. A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients. Categories (topical): Kitchenware Translations (tool for sifting): seula (Finnish), Sieb [neuter] (German), criathar [masculine] (Irish), criathradóir [masculine] (Irish), scagaire [masculine] (Irish), sil [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sito [neuter] (Polish), arfa [feminine] (Polish), przesiewacz [masculine] (Polish), colador [masculine] (Spanish), си́то (sýto) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-sifter-en-noun-5rFFNy01 Disambiguation of Kitchenware: 47 28 25 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 40 38 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 28 38 34 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 27 39 33 Disambiguation of 'tool for sifting': 90 7 3
  2. (rare) One who sifts. Tags: rare Translations (one who sifts): Sieber [masculine] (German), قلبورجی (kalburcu) (Ottoman Turkish), الكجی (elekci) (Ottoman Turkish), kalburcu (Turkish), elekçi (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-sifter-en-noun-~H2JxzwR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 40 38 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 28 38 34 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 27 39 33 Disambiguation of 'one who sifts': 6 88 6
  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.
    Sense id: en-sifter-en-noun-0g3kBqTh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 40 38 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 28 38 34 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 27 39 33
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: sugar sifter

Inflected forms

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