Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who sifts, in any sense; especially, one employed in the operation of sifting loose matter.
- n. A sieve, particularly one differing in form and use from the common sieve, as for sorting matter of differing sizes, sifting ashes from partly burned coal, or the like. An ash-sifter is usually square or oblong, provided with a handle and sometimes a cover, and shaken over a box or barrel.
- n. plural Specifically, in ornithology, the lamellirostral birds, as ducks and geese; sievebeaks.
- n. In milling and baking, a machine for sifting flour preparatory to blending it or using it in baking. It consists of a sieve inclosed in a casing and fitted with a cylindrical brush which, revolving above the sieve, breaks up all the lumps and presses the flour through the sieve.
Wiktionary
- n. A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients
- n. 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
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, sifts.
- n. 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 lamell� of the beak.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a household sieve (as for flour)
Examples
“A large sifter is good for the first few strainings but when you're down to the teensy knitty grit, a smaller sifter is better.”
“But even if your goal is to have a lot of followers, following people makes you a better 'sifter'; someone who pick through what people are talking about and find interesting topics and threads. ”
Lee Stranahan: Pssst! Ashton! Demi! You're Sorta Missing The Point Of Twitter!
“A combination of a snow blower and farming sifter called the 'Sand Shark' is on hand to help clean the tar, but the machine only goes to a depth of six inches, and CNN shows that a layer of oil remains deep below that.”
The Huffington Post: Gulf Oil Spill Crude Remains Beneath The Sand 6 Months Later (VIDEO)
“In the end, I don't think the sifter, itself, would come up with the best patterns on its own: this would need to generalize the patterns as rules, which you could share with others, and collectively figure out which rules are useful.”
“I could appreciate a gmail-sifter to find patterns in my mail: suggesting new labels, perhaps identifying things I consistently leave in the inbox instead of filing (and for what reasons?)”
“(Soundbite of scraping rocks) FORERO: He takes the dust and carefully sweeps it into a wooden sifter.”
“When you put all that into a sifter, what comes out is uncertainty.”
“Daniele is clearly a lifelong sifter of Dick's crap.”
“I thought of dropping big bucks on one of those fancy "cat genie" or "litter robot", but in the end, I got a "roll and clean" litter box, best $ 30 I ever spent, it's an enclosed litter box that you "roll" on its side and a sifter catches the lumps and they get deposited in a container, very easy to use, even my two kids take turns doing it.”
“Three different types of ISRU (Magma electrolysis, a simple sifter for Ni/Fe metals, and Vapor Phase Pyroylsis).”
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Interesting words
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Kitchen Utensils
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butter knife, bread knife, steak knife, spife, pan, pot, salt shaker, cauldron, colander, sieve, zester, spatula and 34 more...
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