Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that strains, as a device used to separate liquids from solids.
- n. An apparatus for tightening, stretching, or strengthening.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which strains.
- n. A stretcher or tightener: as, a strainer for wire fences.
- n. Any utensil for separating small solid particles from the liquid that contains them, either to preserve the solid objects or to clarify the liquid, or for both purposes.
- n. In carriage-building: A reinforcing strip or button at the back of a panel.
- n. Canvas glued to the back of a panel to prevent warping or cracking. Also called stretcher.
Wiktionary
- n. 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; any device functioning as a sieve or filter - in special, 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.
- n. One who strains.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who strains.
- n. That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through
Examples
“Strain the liquid through a piece of cheesecloth to remove the unwanted berry parts, sometimes a strainer is adequate.”
“Nonnie, my host mom, helps me squish all the honey cells through a strainer, which is great fun.”
“A typical form of vessel of this period is the long narrow strainer, which is borne by the Cup-Bearer in the palace fresco, and of which various specimens have been found.”
“The debris where the body was found is what rescuers call a strainer and "if you get into it, you're not getting out of it," Camps said.”
“It is stirred in a mixing glass and strained with a julep strainer which is used with mixing glasses into a chilled cocktail glass and garnished with a cherry.”
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“My English-Spanish/Spanish-English dictionary is stained with red fingerprints from the albanil who was trying to grout my tile and struggled to get me to understand that he needed a certain tool - one that translated into 'strainer' in English, but was really one of those rubber squeegee-like things that they use to wipe down floors.”
“In the second place, the horny matter on the palates of the dugong and manatee has not, even initially, that "strainer" action, which is the characteristic function of the Cetacean "baleen.”
“Put in a new post for a gate - known here as a 'strainer' because it takes the strain of either the weight of the gate or the tensioned fence in the other direction, or both.”
“The "strainer" (network of memories and Limbic system operate as a filter sifting out) - Ask,”
“Underneath that cap is a convenient graduated 9 ounce / 250 ml. measuring cup which can remain in the removable plastic strainer which is effective for granular particulate.”
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